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Dance
VSPRS Sadler's Wels LONDON
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The new work by the Belgian-born Alain Platel, vsprs, is inspired both by the devotional music of Claudio Monteverdi'sMaria Vespers and film footage of mental patients in an asylum in 1904. It is full of choreographed hysteria and spasmodic movement.
Platel has reworked the Monteverdi piece, which he first heard as a 16-year-old in a church in Ghent, for his Les Ballets C de...