Showing as a revival alongside Two Cigarettes In the Dark, Vollmond, meaning full moon, was first performed in 2006. The company of twelve dancers offered a chair for the audience’s ‘ghost to have seat too’, embodying our alter-ego on stage. They filled a bleak, barren, landscape with a series of sketches drawing on social relationships and behaviour […]

Two Cigarettes in the Dark opens on a stage that is anything but dark. Instead a brilliant white high-walled ballroom occupies the space, framed on three sides by room-sized glass-fronted vivariums – verdant tropical foliage in one, a mini desert and cactus in another, and a giant fish tank in the third. These decidedly artificial landscapes […]

A black box becomes a white box then fades to grey. A blue line appears across the centre, dissolves, then reappears stage front. Into the shadow comes a figure, in silhouette. Hiroaki begins to move, isolating limbs, electronic beats behind him. He seems to emit energy. In this new twenty minute piece, there is much […]

Spanish flamenco guitars, African koras and kalimbas, and Afro-Venezuelan tambores. Loose-limbed Senegalese dancers, legendary Sevillian singers, verbatim voice-overs about migration, and compás clapping in counter-rhythm to the djembe beats. Quimeras is indeed a strange beast, created by Paco Peña in collaboration with various Spanish, South American, and African dancers and musicians. The core of the […]

Freedom is the foundation of fiction and fantasy: a state reachable in our imaginations if nowhere else. The choreographer Jasmin Vardimon invites us into this place and in her programme notes tells us to ‘feel free to imagine’. Yet, in this overcrowded and structurally fragmented piece it can end up feeling like this freedom is […]