Invasion Festival: Rainbow Ride

clubWEST & Dance Ihayami

ClubWEST @ Quincentenary Hall, The Royal College of Surgeons

A modern-idiom, somewhat restrained style of classical Indian dance characterises the

closely textured choreography of Javachandra Kumar in Dance Ihayami’s version of the
Everyman odyssey.

Amid Kevin Williams’ richly-hued palette of strong movement and measured gesture, ever-changing colours and screen visuals, and Milton Reame-James and Jeffs Ellis’ eclectic East-West collage of music and sound, Kumar as the central male dancer robustly interweaves with seven female dancers representing the colours of the rainbow. Their sequences expressing the Seven Deadly Sins finely frame Everyman’s journey to his destiny, as colours and sounds pleasingly interact to a New Age audiotrack.

The visual effects created by this multimedia dance work are both appealing and generally satisfying, though would be even more so if the piece were somewhat longer and the movement more subtle.

Review by Brian G Cooper

Published online at 11:50 on Friday 08 August 2008

http://ed.thestage.co.uk/reviews/153

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Cast

: Shruti Chitnis
: Yashodha Govindaraju
: Anjali Gangadharan
: Merav Israel
: Gargi Kanabar
: Sorna Paramananthan

Crew

Author: Kevin Williams
Director: Javachandra Kumar
Music: Milton Reame-James
Music: Jeff Ellis

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