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Papyllon
Resonant interpretation of butterfly's struggle for survival
TECHNICALLY IMPRESSIVE: Ella Mesma
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KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
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THE coronavirus has had a particularly disastrous effect on dance, which is normally dependent on close bodily contact between dancers and on interaction with a live audience.
Digital works are seeking to fill the void by tailoring their choreography to suit creative filming techniques and the Ella Mesma Dance Company’s Papyllon is one such.
Based on the butterfly’s life cycle as a means to “interrogate identity, privilege and imposter syndrome,” Ella Mesma uses long aerial silks as her only props and wears an unpretentious flesh-coloured leotard which echoes her creamy mixed-race skin tones,
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