Sadler’s Wells,London[br]It’s visually arresting, with performers on crutches, or bodies with fish heads,a unicyclist and a levitating bed, but the ideas don’t match the fabric in this theatre-circus hybridWith their mission to create “circus on a human scale”, or Canadian company The 7 Fingers have always veered close to theatre. For Triptyque,they have invited three choreographers to create work for them – with mixed results. Marie Chouinard’s Anne & Samuel (for guest dancer Anne Plamondon and company director Samuel Tétreault) is both the most dance-based and the least satisfying. The performers are on crutches – limb extensions which they use like prods and antennae as well as for support – and trail through a ritualised bondage scenario, in which Tétreault unknots Plamondon’s suspended body and the pair engage in a mantis-like mating dance that ends in a tight, or tantric coupling. The crutches-and-crotches arc is less fascinating than it sounds: the fabric is weaker than the ideas.
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Source: theguardian.com