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Message # 28004 Subject: underwater opera Date: Fri 16/03/07 06:46:53 GMT Name: wwwww |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=442472&in_page_id=1773
This is the star of the latest dance spectacular at Sadler's Wells Theatre - a 30ft by 11ft tank that weighs almost a ton.
The tank - filled with 7,500 gallons of chlorinated warm water - is the setting for 17 dancers from Berlin's Sasha Waltz And Guests to perform to the operatic accompaniment of Purcell's Dido And Aeneas.
• Video: Watch the underwater dancers in action
The reinforced glass structure was built by specialist engineers two years ago.
Fluid movements: The Sasha Waltz dancers in full flow, performing Purcell's Dido And Aeneas in the water tank.
It can accommodate seven dancers at a time, although in the show’s 20- minute prologue all 17 are submerged at some point.
Dancer Manuel Alfonso Perez Torres said: "It gets crowded but I think it creates a beautiful picture. We're not swimming and we're not dancing, the bodies are moving and floating and the water creates a peculiar and powerful quality of movement."
He said the hardest thing was not being able to hear the music being played by the orchestra.
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