British Theater Guide - Lovetrain2020 Sadler's Wells

“Seventy uninterrupted minutes of joy: exotic figures in a playground, a catwalk, a stream of consciousness to the music of Tears For Fears…. Someone in the music business describes their music to me as honest, and I go along with that.

The dance is honest, the production is honest, the vibe is honest, generous and giving.

I read that he doesn't like to impose his signature on his dancers’ bodies, as some choreographers do. So, LOVETRAIN2020 is credited as created with and performed by Eglantine Bart, Tara Dalli, Noe Girard, Nikoline Due, Gilad Jerusalmy, Juhász Péter, Michael Loehr, Emma Mouton, Rindra Rasoaveloson, Abel Rojo, Karolina Szymura, Sara Wilhelmsson.

Thomas Alfred Bradley’s eccentric costumes are so Vivienne Westwood. All that camp strutting and preening... Different strokes for different folks: it’s a gig pure and simple. I am captivated.

Dancers are as unique as their variegated garb…. Many come forward to front stage and look at us openly, trying to make eye contact, inviting a communion with them, perhaps.

Solos are intense, though one looks to be marking his contribution as if in rehearsal, which takes me back and makes me smile. Nuts and bolts, so to speak. It may be a group, a community, but, they seem to be saying, we are not a homogenous mass.

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