“It’s not like opera, which I’m sure is fantastic, but you don’t need to be able to read and write opera or understand or know the story or anything. They’re just human beings doing what they do with music. And it’s amazingly direct.”
Rambert’s artistic director, Benoit Swan Poufferis directing and choreographing the production.
“(Knight) told me, well, you get an idea across in 30 seconds, and when I do it on the show, it takes me hours to get that idea across. So that’s the power of dance. Dance for me and for everyone. It is not necessary to learn the language. It’s the body,” says Pouffer. “We speak internationally, so it doesn’t matter where you’re from. You will understand the story. And that goes for people who have never seen Peaky Blinders.”
“We’re kind of starting in World War I, which is not what we see in the series. And that explains why the Peaky Blinders are the Peaky Blinders,” she says.
Fans of the series will surely be familiar with the love story, which is at the heart of the production, between Tommy Shelby and undercover spy Grace Burgess, played on the series by Cillian Murphy Y Annabelle Wallis.
“Tommy’s life is difficult. He makes a stick for his own back. He causes his own problems, of course. He has a lot of conflicts, it’s all those things that he has on the TV show,” says Knight.
“But I think that with dance, maybe that which you don’t see in other forms, is the joy, when there is joy, you see the joy. But also, even in tragedy, you see its beauty. So it’s a really interesting way to tell the story.”
Source: Ambito
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