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Nacera Belaza, Jonathan Burrows, Charles Linehan and Ros Warby in conversation with Rosemary Butcher, Ramsay Burt, Eckhard Thiemann and others.

This year’s festival features a number of artists who present a radically pared down vision of choreography. Despite spanning different generations and cultural backgrounds, they share similar concerns: an absence of narrative, scepticism of formal technique and a resistance to, or redefining of, the theatrical.

Discussing minimalism as a choreographic approach rather than style, Spectacular Simplicity explores the reasons and methods which these choreographers use to bring out the essential. The innovations of Trisha Brown and her Judson Dance Theater colleagues (including Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay and David Gordon), form a starting point for the speakers to investigate the role of reduction and elimination in choreographic practice today.