Yippeee !!!!

Para reponerme de un comentario que me ha dejado una fulana que vive en un Town que no queiro visitar aunque la estimo muchísimo (saludos Sara: es eso, el cumple que con el número de más me pesa, y que estoy tan ocupada que no tengo tiempo ni para...bueno, tú sabes...¿Qué tal tus enefermedades venéreas, y Rocinante, y esa pelea? Qué bobas son, pero yo también las he tenido iguales con Ría. Que agradable la visita; yo siempre las leo...), voy a publicar alguito, no mio, pero vivido en mi último viaje a Londres.

Choreographer Lea Anderson’s new work, Yippeee!!! (2006) is named after the 1930 musical Whoopee!. With live music, there is no plot and no singing, just movement numbers and bits of action in between. In it her two companies, the all-female Cholmondeleys and the all-male Featherstonehaughs present movement that is at times quirky, with references to the great Busby Berkeley works.

Simon Corder provides a Hollywood type set with a shiny floor and lights on wheeled booms that the dancers move around on the stage. Steve Blake, one of Anderson’s regular collaborators, formed a new band, Yum Yum, with Simon King and Pat Thomas with a sort of electro-screech sound with repetitive riffs and improvisation as well as song-like sound structures.

The imagery is an abstract take on the thirties musical movies in the at times camp costumes of Simon Vincenzi. However, the work begins to fall apart after about half an hour with nothing new being said. Though not a pastiche, this is an at times silly and cynical send up of thirties Hollywood musicals which is both clever and funny but at 90 minutes without an interval, too long for comfort and lacking an enriching dance vocabulary to hold the attention.

Yo estuve allí (verdad Libe y Carla?!) y me sentí igual que esta chica
Gavin Roebuck que ha decidido publicar esto en el diario británico
"The Stage" : divertidamente confusa
pero con las ganas de ver danza de verdad.

Pero qué rayos, estaba en Londres, ¿no?