Tobias Picker's Awakenings in the Press

Tobias Picker's Awakenings continues to enthrall audiences throughout the contemporary music and ballet worlds as its season-long tour by Rambert Dance Company forges on throughout the UK. Here's just a sampling of what the critics are saying:

The heart of the evening is [Awakenings]… with a heartfelt score by Tobias Picker.
- Financial Times

… a powerful piece…
… especially moving…
- The Guardian

… a must-see masterpiece…
- Press and Journal (Scotland)

Picker's score, counterposing jagged, stuttering chords with a discursive, melodic freedom is very persuasive.
- The Independent

Picker’s score has soulful emotion mixed with strident eerie phrases.
- The Stage

Tobias Picker's extraordinary polyphonic score is fluid, captivating and strangely moving.
- This is Bath

… a seethingly impulsive score…
… simply one of the finest works in the current repertoire…
… the music is as nuanced and challenging as the choreography: to have it powering out live, from the pit, adds a real crackle of intensity.
- The Herald (Scotland)

... the music was powerful… the action travelled with heartbreaking beauty.
- Sunday Express

… both disturbing and moving...
- The Telegraph

Picker's score was at times edgy and convulsive, at others lyrical and graceful in a subtle and beautifully nuanced piece.
- The Inverness Courier

Watch a preview video of Awakenings here.

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For more detailed information on the Rambert Dance Company tour, go to www.rambert.org.uk.

Tobias Picker
Awakenings (2010)
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