Sadler’s Wells, London
The 2017 piece Goat, made in the aftermath of London terror attacks, loses its way but last year’s Cerberus is a powerful account of grief
Rambert is a dance company currently firing on all cylinders, and choreographer-director Ben Duke has come up with some gems in recent years, so this double bill of the two works Duke has made for Rambert should be a corker, but it doesn’t completely fly.
The older of the two pieces, Goat, was made in 2017. The first day of creation came in the aftermath of the London Bridge terror attacks, a mile away from Rambert’s studio, just as Duke was planning to take Nina Simone’s advice that an artist’s duty is to reflect the times. There were no doubt a lot of reactions and ideas swirling around in the studio as they made it, and there are still too many ideas swirling around on stage now.
