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DistDancing “At a DistDancing show, you can tell people are still thirsty for live performance” Chisato Katsura I t’s an overcast Sunday afternoon in East London, and a small crowd has gathered on the towpath of the Regent’s Canal. On the other side of the water sits Hoxton Docks, a renovated warehouse complex turned events space, with a floating pontoon just outside its tall wooden cargo doors. To the left of the pontoon is a barge carrying a giant yellow inflatable balloon that looks like some sort of bizarre sea Zeppelin. To the right is a family of four model sharks emerging menacingly from the water. With just a few minutes to go until the clock strikes three, you can feel the energy rise in the assembled throng as they wait to discover what will emerge from behind the cargo doors. The crowd is here for DistDancing, a new series of free pop-up weekend performances created by dancers whose regular careers have been brought to a halt by COVID-19 restrictions that have shuttered theatres and venues in the UK and beyond. However, unbeknownst to those waiting patiently – and socially distanced – on the towpath, the police are already inside Hoxton Docks, and the plug is pulled on the sound system after just five seconds. What’s more, the organisers are told they’ll be arrested if they hit play again. Another van full of police officers marches onto the towpath and orders the crowd to leave, just as dancer Rebecca Bassett-Graham was going to begin her routine. As the police continue with their dispersal efforts, the crowd begins chanting in unison: “Let them dance!” Inside, there’s an intense back-andforth between the dancers and police. Once it becomes clear that only the organisers would be arrested, not the performers, freelance aerialist Jackie Le decides to complete her routine as a protest. She begins her descent from rigging hoisted from the roof, hanging like a spider on a thread as the stand-off continues on the towpath. After eight consecutive weekends of free shows throughout the summer, this short-lived experimental attempt to find a way to dance and perform despite COVID restrictions has been brought to a close, for now. “At least we went out with a bang,” says Chisato Katsura, First Artist of The Royal Ballet, forcing an optimistic smile. “But it’s depressing, seeing this come to an end. It feels like losing a baby, when we had a whole month of shows planned. And it really doesn’t make sense: right now, there are hundreds of people in the parks, going out in Soho, or sitting on planes. Yet with all these gatherings happening we’re the only ones being shut down.” Raising hoops: aerialist Annalisa Midolo wows the towpath crowd Rewind a few days and the mood is more upbeat – despite the pouring rain outside – at a rehearsal for the weekend’s performance. In an elegant, woodenfloored yoga studio in London Bridge, Katsura leads the session as Francesca Velicu, 22, and Erik Woolhouse, 24, from the English National Ballet (ENB), and Bassett-Graham, 29, from Company Wayne McGregor, practise their routines. The moment is made even more special by the fact Katsura has been out of action since October due to a stress fracture to her left shin, which necessitated crutches. First, Velicu and Woolhouse, who are a couple, practise a breezy duet together. Then, for their solo pieces, Velicu floats › ANDREJ USPENSKI 50 THE RED BULLETIN
The world’s a stage: Chisato Katsura, co-founder of DistDancing and First Artist of the Royal Ballet, is helping keep dance alive in lockdown THE RED BULLETIN 51
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