The Associates, London
Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion have been working together for 25 years, developing a genre that sits somewhere between dance, lecture and music. To describe their work as a deconstruction of form and ideas gives little idea of the comedy, inventiveness and warmth of their material. This double bill consists of One Flute Note – which sees the pair play with ideas about memory and music – and Body Not Fit For Purpose, where they ask a dizzying array of questions about the politics of dance.
Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Mon & Tue
Burrows & Fargion, London
This promises to be a cracking triple bill, bringing together three new works by three choreographers from the Wells’s impressive coterie of associate artists. Crystal Pite deploys her singular talent for image-making in A Picture Of You Falling, a male-female duet that draws on the subtext of our deepest emotional instincts and fantasies. Hofesh Shechter’s The Barbarians In Love finds passion within the mathematical precision of its baroque-inspired score. Completing the programme is Smile, a new collaboration between director Kate Prince and choreographer and dancer Tommy Franzén about Charlie Chaplin, and the real man behind the comic mask.
Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Thu to 8 Feb
