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Tue 05 May 2009Fifteen days of dance end on a high step
Sold-out shows and a well-balanced programme deliver the audiences for the Dublin Dance Festival, writes MICHAEL SEAVER
THERE MIGHT BE dances in the pipeline that reflect the current global economic and societal crisis, but Lucy Guerin’s Structure and Sadness from 2006 already fits the bill. Created in response to the collapse of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne in 1970, which killed 35 workers, its larger metaphor of the collapse of trusted structures and subsequent human cost resonates most strongly in these times.
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