Standby

A tribute to the NDT company by its departing artistic director Paul Lightfoot in the form of a reimagining of Harald Lander’s classical ballet Études, performed exclusively for online release and in the spirit of social distancing.

choreography by Paul Lightfoot 
directed and edited by Ennya Larmit & Paul Lightfoot

The Guardian – ****
Volkskrant – *****
NRC – *****

“Directed and magically edited by Lightfoot and Ennya Larmit, and, most crucially, lit painterly by Tom Bevoort and Jolanda de Kleine: the ever-changing light-shaped patterns on the floor, if not as darkly lit, remind me of Michael Hulls’s lighting work. A black and white film the Constructivists would have been proud of, the black Malevich squares giving way to white and then back again, rings of light and dark, diagonal light streams, are enough minimalist décor for the sculptural, lithe bodies in motion. Motion pictures one could call them… the finale has the shifting chessboard filled with dancers, a Hollywood sound stage perhaps…”.  – British Theatre Guide