When the lights go up on Noa Zamir's 3 Times 2, we see two women facing each other, their thighs and buttocks shuddering. Orange lentils are flying from their skirts, covering the stage. Soon they're waltzing to Jo Privat and Matelo Ferret's Les Yeux Noirs, a Parisian dancehall hit. The occasion is Resolution!, The Place's showcase for emerging choreographic talent, which in the 20 years of its existence has launched the careers of Wayne McGregor and Rafael Bonachela among others. As ever, you take your chances, the original alternating with the wince-makingly awful.
Resolution! 2009 launched this week, and by 21 February will have presented more than 100 new works. It's a friendly, supportive affair, and after 3 Times 2 there's much banter about the lentil-storm. "The grain of an idea," suggests one audience member, while another insists that she detected "a strong dramatic pulse". Luckily Zamir herself is on hand to decode the piece. The lentils symbolise memories, she explains, since the DNA of the new plant is contained in the lens-shaped seed. A fierce argument ensues. Is a pulse the same as a seed? Isn't the whole memory issue a bit 2008? Isn't it a little daal?
