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Let it all out! Taking Tears for Fears to a new stage

Culture Stage DANCE

‘All around me are familiar faces/worn out places, worn-out faces” goes the song, and a man on stage in a voluminous skirt jerks his body with the beat as Mad World fills the auditorium. Love-Train2020 is the new show from Marseille-based Israeli choreographer Emanuel Gat, set entirely to the music of Tears for Fears. Not the usual soundtrack for contemporary dance, but if Birmingham Royal Ballet can dance to Black Sabbath, then why not?

Gat, 54, never

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