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The Blue Dragon, Barbican Theatre
The Blue Dragon, Barbican Theatre
Robert Lepage's stunning collision between East and West
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Elegant eloquence: Tai Wei Foo dances up an emotional stormErick Labbé
Forked lightning glimpsed through an aeroplane window, a silken dancer spilling stars in a snow-filled sky, a dragon tattoo etched on a man’s back: we’ve grown to expect seductive alchemy of images from the work of Quebecois master of visual theatre Robert Lepage, and in his latest show he doesn’t disappoint.
Forked lightning glimpsed through an aeroplane window, a silken dancer spilling stars in a snow-filled sky, a dragon tattoo etched on a man’s back: we’ve grown to expect seductive alchemy of images from the work of Quebecois master of visual theatre Robert Lepage, and in his latest show he doesn’t disappoint.
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