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Late Night

Barbican Theatre, The PIt (*****) – LIFT 2016

© Vassilis Makris, Blitz Theatre Group in Late Night

© Vassilis Makris, Blitz Theatre Group in Late Night

Imagine the hypnotic purity of a Pina Bausch, the despair of They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, the American film where exhausted dancers during the American 1932 Depression circle endlessly. Add the musical melancholy of a Jacques Brel type song. Then imagine it all transferred to the context of Europe and Greece in the grip of austerity since the economic collapse of 2008.  Continue reading