Review: Rosie Kay goes to war with 5 Soldiers
Apr 27 2010 by Diane Parkes, Birmingham Mail
BIRMINGHAM choreographer Rosie Kay’s new work 5 Soldiers The Body pulls no punches.
It is a hard-faced look at the people behind the lines whose training morphs them into one body and yet with each one an individual.
Kay’s message is clear – we begin on manoeuvres with the troops working as a homogeneous group, indistinguishable as they march around the stage.
But 80 minutes later we have seen these comrades-in-arms splinter, form alliances, re-group and face their own agonising loves and losses.
Kay’s choreography is strong in physicality with much of the dance replicating the fighting itself, blurring the edges of identity.
VERDICT: ***
