Venice Dance Biennale 2014: the scholarly, the quizzical, the indignant
The radical spirit of Merce Cunningham is felt in the arresting work at the festivalMy favourite work on the opening day of the 2014 Dance Biennale was Jérôme Bel's M0ndo Novo, an engaging, egalitarian take on Tiepolo's masterly painting of the same name. That short piece is part of the festival strand in which five choreographers have been commissioned to respond to five different art works on permanent…