Sea of Bones – Reviews

Once again it draws on Bruce’s taste for the anarchic thump of heavy rock, setting tracks by Nick Cave, Polly Harvey, Tom Waits and The Kills, but this time there is a mysterious undercurrent of ancient history, as well as surprising tenderness and eroticism. There’s a flicker of narrative, too, which comes and goes in the most tantalising way…
The Independent

Sea of Bones is the most passionate, grown-up choreography he has yet produced. Performed by seven dancers, this two-act extravaganza is nothing if not ambitious…
The Times

But with his new work, Sea of Bones, he has made a powerful return. This is a compelling evening of dance theatre that wittily and nightmarishly rattles the skeletons at the bottom of our collective unconscious…
The Guardian

Even if one scene didn’t resonate there was another along sharpish in a surreal cavalcade like the dance equivalent of Shooting Stars….
ballet.co.uk

When the lights go up on Mark Bruce’s Sea of Bones to reveal a woad-spattered Joanne Fong in a bowler hat, the audience wriggle pleasurably, sensing that they’re in for a good time. When the seven-strong cast enter carrying severed heads, they know they are…
Observer

Mark Bruce knows seedy glamour and the romance of the tortured soul and here presents choreography that explores that spectrum, in a bubble of dream and myth and metaphor, brilliantly…
londondance.com