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'Anthony Lo-Giudice is a choreographer who goes where others would fear to tread. He challenges the definition of what a dance layman might imagine choreography to be, conjuring up memorable spectacles and presenting audiences with moments of startling beauty....'

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Dave Whetstone - Cultured North East

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'This is a political work, with free and raw dance and movement interspersed with text, drawn from conversations Anthony has had with people across the UK. Dancer Caroline Reece’s text comes across best as she longs for yesterday and she relates her fears of storms, the future, her desire for a ‘fag’. Reece is an impressive, charismatic performer. Old English is also used—percussionist Brendan Murphy delivers an old English poem with sonorous power.

 

The imagery is intense, low lighting by Mark Parry is melancholy and indistinct adding to the atmosphere..

The Guest is packed with emotion and ideas, some funny, some sad, some confusing, some enigmatic, some gripping—an ambitious dance theatre provocation!'

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Dora Frankel - British Theatre Guide

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'The dancing, especially in the first half once weeping George leaves the stage, is incredible: choreographed movement that seems to flip the world on its head. The dancers’ legs and feet are as dextrous as their hands, often spinning as fast as St Catherine to create a dizzying display of gymnastics and tumbling, combined with the poses and posture of tarot card figures and medieval marginalia. This truly encapsulates the meaning of the weird and the wonderful.

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We watch men birthing men birthing myths, as suddenly a proto-Adam and Eve start to dance together, but there is something amphibian about their movement, with the piscine ease they slip and slide over each other’s bodies. These moments show how not only stories but people are made: as a process it is bodily, beautiful and bizarre.'

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Maxime Swift - Dance Art Journal

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'Watching Se Gæst felt less like attending a dance performance and more like being drawn into a shared act of reflection. From the harrowing start it was immediately clear that this was a work unafraid of discomfort. Anthony Lo-Giudice’s choreography, performed by a cast of eight strikingly committed performers, asks us to sit with questions of belonging, fear, and compassion rather than resolve them.

 

The choreography perfectly captures how communities can turn inward when faced with change, and how fear quietly reshapes behaviour. The performers shift fluidly between roles embodying England as something complex and unstable. Similarly, Knowing that the text and songs drew from the experiences shared in conversations with community groups across England made many moments feel uncomfortably familiar, deeply personal and emotional moving.'

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Barrah T Al-Badry

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