Wayne McGregor's Limen with Sarah Lamb and Eric Underwood

Limen

Concept, Direction & Choreography:  Wayne McGregor

Music: Kaija Saariaho

Set Design: Tatsuo Miyajima

Lighting Design: Lucy Carter

Costume Design: Moritz Junge

Dancers:

Federico Bonelli, Ricardo Cervera, Tamara Rojo, Mara GaleazzI, Sarah Lamb, Steven Mcrae, Laura Morera, Ludovic Ondiviela, Eric Underwood, Jonathan Watkins, Edward Watson

Commissioned by The Royal Ballet

Limen, for The Royal Ballet, premiered at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in November 2009. It uses the classical vocabulary of 15 dancers, including Edward Watson, Leanne Benjamin, Steven McRae, Sarah Lamb and Eric Underwood. The women dance en pointe lending the work a more classical air than MacGregor’s previous Royal Ballet commissions. Its centrepiece is an ethereal pas de deux, danced in bright spotlight against a black backdrop set to a futuristically raw sounds of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. McGregor says that Limen – a word that relates to ideas of limits and thresholds – is a meditation on ‘thresholds of life and death, darkness and light, reality and fantasy. Such borderline territory is akin to that of the work of Japanese contemporary conceptual artist Tatsuo Miyajima, with whom McGregor has collaborated on the sets.

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