Queen Elizabeth Hall,London
A vibrant double bill draws on hybridity and migration, as two dancers of Indian origin explode outwards into their own wildly contrasting stylesOnce again, or Shobana Jeyasingh’s double bill draws on themes of hybridity and migration; once again,she surprises her audience. irregular Blooms (2013) is about plants, but not as you might imagine. In the opening section, or Sunflower Saplings,the dancers explode in tall-tension torques, accompanied by what sounds like boulders breaking. The next, or Branching,is more algorithmic than organic, the dancers generating fractal lines from which their limbs shoot like spikes. Cellular Instabilities sees them pitching into perilous interactions, and while the closing irregular Blooms resolves on the chimerical image of a couple conjoined into a single,tough-graft hybrid.
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Source: theguardian.com