Basil Twist has been famous for stretching the boundaries of puppetry at least since his 1998 water-tank ballet of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. For Twist, the aim of the boundary-stretching seems at first to be abstraction; Symphonie's leading roles were played by feathers, glitter, dyes, and bubbles. Likewise, in The Rite ... More »
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:10PM on October 17, 2014