Diana Vishneva brings new Carlson and Maillot works to London

Diana Vishneva's dance programme On the Edge will get its UK début when it comes to the London Coliseum in April 2015. The evening consists of two works commissioned specifically for Vishneva: Jean-Christophe Maillot’s intriguing pas de trois Switch, and Carolyn Carlson’s profound solo work Woman in a Room.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Vish­neva said,

Car­o­lyn Carlson doesn’t work with clas­sical dan­cers in principle.

But when she was convinced that they could collaborate successfully together and agreed to create Woman in a Room, Vishneva remembers the first day of rehearsals:

When I came to her rehearsal room, I saw that on the huge table, which became my part­ner in this piece, she had spread pages with poetry by Arseny Tarkovsky… I ended up recit­ing his poetry in my show, which is totally incred­ible for me.

I spoke to Carlson a few months ago about the project:

It was won­der­ful work­ing with Diana. This was some­thing! It was dif­fi­cult in the begin­ning because she’s a diva, every­body takes care of her, and she’s used to people giv­ing her steps.
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