Satisfaction - Apollo Theatre
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
A DANCE show created by Danish choreographer Peter Schaufuss using the Rolling Stones greatest hits as a backdrop, Satisfaction, will run for a limited season – from August 29 (preview August 28) to September 8, 2007 – at the Apollo Theatre.
The show which is neither a ballet nor a musical, has been described as a ‘dancical’, or in Schaufuss’ own words “a vibrant and fascinating multimedia experience of dance, music and light which capture the audience.”
Twenty five dancers from Schaufuss’ company will perform to the soundtrack’s 24 hits, which include Get Off My Cloud, Sympathy for the Devil, Ruby Tuesday, Paint Is Black, Wild Horses and (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. Each will be individually choreographed and tell its own story.
The Apollo staging will also feature caricatures of Stones’ members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Charlie Woods by The Sunday Times cartoonist Gerald Scarfe.
Schaufuss, a former director of the London Festival Ballet (now the English National Ballet), set up his own company, the Peter Schaufuss Ballet, in Denmark in 1997, since when he has created 17 productions – among them the controversial dance piece based on the life of the Princess of Wales, Diana the Princess.
Kean is currently playing at the Apollo Theatre.
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