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Mixed blessings in Phoenix commemoration of Windrush arrival
Unwelcome message: Windrush
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Phoenix Dance Theatre: Mixed Programme
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds/Touring
PHOENIX Dance Theatre’s latest mixed programme comes with much anticipation for new piece Windrush: Movement of the People.
A commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the SS Empire Windrush's arrival in Britain with emigrants from the Caribbean, it headlines a bill that opens with Aletta Collins’s Maybe Yes Maybe, Maybe No Maybe.
Created in 2009, the company favourite turns the voices of five dancers into a bold electronic soundtrack. Wittily blending beats with movement, the action is framed within a shifting circle of light in the centre of which dangles a solitary microphone.
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