Can setting modern dance to brass band music capture the sound and spirit of the miners' strike? Rambert artistic director Mark Baldwin finds lingering hope amid a bitter legacyWhen composer Gavin Higgins was appointed Rambert's inaugural music fellow in 2010 he suggested it would be interesting to explore the 1984/85 miners' strike through music and dance. The strike was a defining political and social moment in rec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM on May 9, 2015