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Crystal Pite, who at Sadler’s Wells unveils Assembly Hall (20 to 23 March), co-created
with Jonathon Young. He provides a script to which, as in their previous
collaborations Betroffenheit and Revisor, the dancers mime. Danced by her own Kidd
Pivot company, this new work is set among the members of a medieval re-enactment
society and mingles myth and magic, humour and despair, pure dance and narrative.
Other notable premieres include Aakash Odedra Company’s Mehek, a collaboration
between Odedra and Aditi Mangaldas, both fine exponents of contemporary kathak,
which opens at Leicester’s Peepul Centre (4-7 April) and then tours. Sarah Crompton

Film
Thrill at the sci-fi return of Bong Joon-ho

Robert Pattinson in Mickey 17.

Plot specifics are currently under wraps for director Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, the
hotly anticipated follow-up to his Oscar-winning Parasite. But the few details that can
be gleaned are tantalising. The English-language film (released on 29 March), which is
based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 science fiction novel Mickey7, stars Robert Pattinson
in the lead role. He plays an “expendable” – a disposable employee (he’s working on a
risky mission to colonise a planet) who can be regenerated each time he dies. WI

TV

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