Sinatra, T Rex, pan pipe muzak: what will be the soundtrack to your funeral? Who will be there? What will they say? When Solène Weinachter was unexpectedly cajoled into dancing at her uncle Bob’s cremation, she found herself pondering these very questions, and she has turned those thoughts into a surprisingly upbeat piece of dance-theatre on mortality and remembrance.
The French-born Weinachter is known as a member of Scottish Dance Theatre, and for working with Ben Duke and his company Lost Dog, especially playing Juliet in the table-turning Juliet & Romeo. After All is not a million miles away in tone from Duke’s dance theatre work, in the way it uses a light touch and self-effacing personality but swerves into deeper themes.
Swerving into deep themes … Solène Weinachter. Photograph: Genevieve Reeves
