Shaun Parker & Company - review

Peacock Theatre, London

time Dancework

Shaun Parker is happy as Larry to begin to ask Larry how happy he was anyway? Because, although the advertising program and indicates that the play is about happiness, the result is quiet, his emotional temperature ranging from very happy and a little sad.

• Indeed, although the stated intention of the Australian choreographer is the use of different personality types to explore what makes us happy, the room itself is more like a riff on children less concerned with the psychology of games, toys and activities. There are two main components of all: a giant rotating pigs edge of the stage, and an arc of bright balloons on it, like a galaxy of colors. The board first row of images of people (who represent the public) and the piece of chalk dancers to develop a record of the action: one stick-like figure, followed by drawings of skates wheels, more people, musical notes graffiti and monitor the actions of the stage, all stained and scamper like dancers on the board.

Set

Boppy sweet sounds and rhythms, the choreography for nine dancers - moving blocks that blend street dance, ballet, contemporary dance and skating - it's very small but larky. The best scenes suggest childlike wonder and simple pleasures: men climb the diving board again and back into space, like children delighted to discover something wonderful and new, a ball that turns becomes a microcosm of all the world of broken slate as a skater zooming round in the opposite direction, like a child eager to race against time. But these moments do not accelerate. The other rivalry games, reflecting, in pursuit and hide choreographic scribbles appear, sometimes funny and sometimes tender, but curiously without consequences - and left me a little sad not to have left a little happier " / aa>

Rating: 3 / 5

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