-Critics are writing a lot about how Michael Tippett's score doesn't exactly work with the choreography. Mackrell says he choreographs against the music in some parts. Zoe Anderson described the choreography as the "slippiest" aspect of Live Fire Exercise, suggesting that it might "undercut" the desert war and "English lyricism" of the music and computer generated landscape by John Gerrard.
-Clement Crisp of FT wrote that "sure this LFE is the same contorted affair that we have seen in the past few years from McGregor: convulsed movement conveying a sense of physiques knotted, driven towards a neurotic introversion. But Mackrell of the Guardian wrote that "in some ways, McGregor's choreography is the most classical he has ever created." The "pirouettes and attitudes are wrenched off balance; legs shoot out with deadly force."
-There's lots of 'war' language going on throughout all of the reviews:
explosions, military, soldiers, shocks, blasts, war, violence, ravaged, army, manoeuvres, explosion, ricochet, trauma, damage, loss, deadly, force, trauma, violence, injury, heroic, survive, piercing, warfare, fighting, battle-fatigue, army, explosion, fire, burn, desert, war, military, desert, lorries, crashing, flame, explosion, Afghanistan, Iraq, The Hurt Locker, grapple, conflict, war, battle, death, loss, combat, aftermath, gun, battle-grounds, operate, unit, manoeuvres, training drill.
Words for explosions used — explosions, shocks, blasts, crashing
Words for fire — fire, burn, flame
Words for guns — gun, ricochet, piercing
