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(From Guardian Unlimited)
An Indian classical dancer has won Europe's most prestigious award for choreography. London-based Nina Rajarani was last night awarded the GBP25,000 biennial Place prize, the dance world's equivalent to the Turner prize.
Her winning piece, QUICK!, has four men in city clothes perform a frenetic, testosterone-infused bharatanatyam, conveying the hurly-burly of modern commerce with an ancient Indian dance form.
The Guardian's dance critic, Judith Mackrell praised the way Rajarani links the "speed and glitter of the Indian dance to the frenetic pace of modern life. Yet by splicing the dancing with laddish grooming rituals and an uneasy joshing, she also evokes something touching and vulnerable about the men themselves."
The piece was chosen from ...