• Pierre Rigal: Scandale review – hip-hop dance jolts and cackles to the beat

    Sadler’s Wells, LondonRigal’s performers explore street vernaculars and the shamanic power of music in this flawed if clever pieceSix fresh young dancers look as if they’ve bought the whole H&M spring collection – silver jeggings, stonewash, millennial pink. Then there’s a masked, dark-robed gimp-samurai-shaman type, brandishing drumsticks and emitting sinister cackles. Whatever Pierre Rigal’s Scandale may have to commend it, this odd conjunction of worlds

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