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Words: Becky Burgum. Photography: Gett y Images.

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FORGOT TEN DANCE CL ASSICS

Dance has formed the backdrop for some of cinema’s most compelling dramas, from 2O18’s dark Suspiria,

featuring Tilda Swinton to 2OO1’s MTV-produced Save The Last Dance.

Also...

DANCE FE VER

Get ready for...

First up, get the popcorn ready for new movieEma(out 17 April).

I t ’sStep UpmeetsWe Need To Talk About Kevin: a dark, reggaeton-

powered tale of young dancer Ema (Di Girolamo), who is caught in a

toxic marriage to older choreographer Gastón (Gael García Bernal)

and on a mission to get back her adopted son. Also on the big screen,

Cunningham(out now) takes us on an journey through choreographer

Merce Cunningham’s 7O -year career. The

creator of more than 18O dances, he was

undoubtedly the single greatest influence

on contemporary dance. Meanwhile, at

London’s Design Museum, get your body

moving asElectronic(on until 26 July) takes

you to the dance floors of Detroit, Paris,

Berlin and the UK. Discover how electronic

music transformed from an underground

movement to global phenomenon through

the 3D Kraftwerk experience (which is

like a genuine club night), a sound reactive

visual installation, graphics from Peter

Saville CBE, iconic DJ masks, fashion and

a genre-spanning soundtrack by French DJ

and producer Laurent Garnier.

THIS MONTH, IT TAKES CENTRE STAGE, WITH POWERFUL

FIL MS AND AN E XHIBITION SET TO GE T YOU MOVING

Music & movement

ABOVE RIGHT: DAFT PUNK’S

ICONIC LOOK FEATURES

INELECTRONIC. R I G H T:

TITULAR CHARACTER EMA

WITH GASTON IN PABLO

LARRAIN’S NEW FILM

The influence

ABOVE: A PERFORMANCE

OF MERCE CUNNINGHAM’S

SUMMERSPACEFROM THE

NEW DOCUMENTARY.

BELOW LEFT: THE

CHOREOGRAPHER IN 1962

”ELEC TRONIC

TA K E S YOU

to dance floors in

DE TROIT, BERLIN,

PA R I S, CHIC AGO

AND THE UK ”

KRAFTWERK

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