Chroma - 2006
Press
The Observer, May 31 2010
"What makes Chroma so reverberant is the counterpoint between the alien strangeness of the choreography, with its twitchy dislocations and jolting kinetic currents, and the Royal dancers' narrative instinct. We cannot help but construct stories around Edward Watson, prowling the stage to the blare of Joby Talbot's score like a restless, world-weary vampire. Around Yuhui Choe, lit from within by some joyous, phosphorescent secret. Around the tense regality of Sarah Lamb and the enigmatic chivalry of Eric Underwood."
Read the full reviewTelegraph, May 26 2010
"Many modern dance-works lose their impact with repeated viewings, but not Chroma. In fact, it gets more exciting, absorbing and downright dazzling every time you see it."
Read the full reviewThe Guardian, May 25 2010
"Chroma's flaring extremities of line, its darting, slithering, whiplash intensities, have become second nature to the company, and Saturday's cast ditched for good the stereotype that the Royal dance safe and small"
Read the full reviewThe Times, November 21 2006
"McGregor's Chroma is ravishing on all fronts, choreography, music and design...[his] driving, volatile choreography is so hyper-limber that it almost seems to occur at the cellular level. Every part of the body is disrupted with a scientific thoroughness, yet the mood shifts with the music, tough and ferocious one minute, tender and voluptuous the next."
Read the full reviewThe Guardian, November 18 2006
"It was fast and furious and totally gripping, and everything started to make sense....From the opening in which Alina Cojocaru and Edward Watson batter each other in a flying, thrusting duet, through to the finale where all 10 performers lock into an ensemble of powered dance, the tension between chaos and minimalism, anarchy and classicism, ratchets up to thrilling extremes."
Read the full reviewTime Out, November 2006
"McGregor....is on top form, in top flight.....the movement is underpinned with a bedrock of emotions. This is McGregor all grown-up. Chroma is both his most sophisticated and, at the same time, most accessible work to date. It is all recognisably McGregor turf, but with a sleek new harmonious unity."
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