Simply mindblowing

Nederlands Dans Theater in 'Silent Screen'. Image from SISTIC.

Double Bill: Silent Screen & Toss of a Dice
Nederlands Dans Theater I
19 Oct 2008, Esplanade Theatre
da:ns festival 2008, Singapore

Watching Nederlands Dance Theatre was like having a religious experience. Or like I had died and gone to heaven. I have nothing to say about it – I merely wish to communicate my speechlessness. After Lightfood León’s incredible Silent Screen, my brain was so full of all that fantastic movement that for the first half of Kylián’s Toss of a Dice I could only register the undulations of the backdrop and the sparkling of the twisting metal and glass mobile sculpture created by Susumu Shingu. When I finally returned to reality, it was only to confront the fact that Kylián had placed 12 dancers on stage in exactly the same way, a feat at which only he could hope to succeed. That blew my mind all over again.

They’re all geniuses. Nuff said.