The tendency of most dance is towards flattering beauty, towards the lovely act rather than the uncompromising action. One of the many heroic qualities of Undance, this fascinating heavyweight collaboration between the artist Mark Wallinger, the composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and the choreographer Wayne McGregor is that it isn’t always gorgeous: it has the knotty complexity of an idea being weighed and examined.
All this was handsomely realized by the Britten Sinfonia, moonlighting as the pit-band at Sadler’s Wells… conducted by the new-music specialist Timothy Redmond…
Under the convincing baton of Timothy Redmond, and in David Pountney’s translation, one can’t imagine the work being better served…