Les Ballets C de la B - Alain Platel's tauerbach

I'm a bit behind in my mini reviews so you will all have missed this real 'treat' at Sadlers Wells <<http://www.sadlerswells.com>>

Really I should have known better when I remembered Alain Platel's previous work at Sadlers Wells "Out of Context" had the additional comment "for Pina".  I wasn't overwhelmed with that, thinking it a very shallow version of what Pina Bausch had created for decades.  So.....you can imagine how my heart sank when I saw the stage in front of the curtain littered with clothes and then on curtain up - a stage piled high with clothes.

According to the Sadlers Wells flyer...."tauerbach tells the story of a woman who suffers from schizophrenia and who lives and works in a Brazillian waste disposal site.  Living in these unusual conditions, she has developed her own very particular way of communicating with this small community she lives in."

We had lots of Pina-isms - obviously the cluttered stage, dancers dressing and undressing, throwing things around, singing, shouting, dialogue, monologue.  And in there we had some flashes of dance.  Occasional flashes of interest, but these weren't sustained.

I am afraid Les Ballets C de la B is off my list!