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CLASS ACT.(Play Without Words)(Dance Review)

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| April 04, 2005 | Acocella, Joan | COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Matthew Bourne, who is probably the most acclaimed choreographer in England today, founded his first troupe, campily called Adventures in Motion Pictures, in 1987--a ragtag seven-member group that tooled around England in a minivan putting on outrageous shows. Bourne eventually became famous for his "deconstructions" of the classics, those irreverent updatings which the Europeans like so much. His deconstructions, or the ones I saw, were worth liking. He made a "Cinderella" set during the Blitz, a "Carmen" that took place in a garage, a "La Sylphide" about Glasgow's drug scene. (That show opens in a public toilet.) Most popular was his "Swan Lake," with its ...

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