Mystery of Slumber Illness Inspires Interpretive Dance ; Rambert Dance 2010 Britain's Leading Contemporary Dance Company Visits the Potteries with a Programme Including a New Work Inspired by a Haunting Medical Mystery, Writes Alan Cookman

Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › October 29, 2010

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THE unprecedented slaughter of the First World War was quickly followed in 1918 by the Spanish flu pandemic which killed between 50 and 100 million people worldwide.

This in turn was followed by a mysterious sleeping sickness which affected a further five million people.

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Mystery of Slumber Illness Inspires Interpretive Dance ; Rambert Dance 2010 Britain's Leading Contemporary Dance Company Visits the Potteries with a Programme Including a New Work Inspired by a Haunting Medical Mystery, Writes Alan Cookman

And the experiences of the victims has inspired Awakenings, one of the works to be performed by the Rambert Dance Company at T...

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