Richard Alston’s dance illuminated the music, let you delight in the moment – and stole my heart
The radical British choreographer, who has died aged 77, was as warm and graceful as his astonishing body of workThe first contemporary dance I really loved was made by Richard Alston. In the 1990s, I was going to dance class a few times a week and watching the smattering of companies that would tour to Newcastle, where I grew up. There was dance that was pretty or provocative or intellectually stimulating, which I enjoyed or appreciated, but the dance that…
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