Athletically resplendent, Ardovini owns the piece…

Fluorescent rainbow strips of KT Tape cling to both the strong and susceptible body parts of a spellbinding Azzura Ardovini in Jenni Wren’s Minor Tears. Athletically resplendent, Ardovini owns the piece, disco electric lunges into box splits into quick flicks, each sinewy extension stretched deliberately to its limit in time with the tense thumping score. One minor niggle in this otherwise physiologically perfect performance – the all too literal explanation of its theme at the end. Ardovini and her partner Ioannis Tsigkris having already conveyed that dancers (controversially) learn to power through pain with grace.

Lara Hayward – Dance Critic

2017