This show was something of a disappointment. Aimed at illustrating how humans relate to the habitat and conditions in which they live sounds rather interesting. It turns out to be somewhat tedious and pedestrian in execution.
A simple black stage and digital projector open the show. Four dancers emerge who collectively and individually perform against projected images of house and home. The interpretation and delivery is not exciting or exhilarating, it is very low key and does little to expand on or illustrate the theme of the piece.
The dancers deliver little in terms of imagination, ingenuity or vigour in their performances and the audience is left with little to engage with. If the performances had exposed some emotional content then maybe I could have experienced some degree of empathy and rapport with the dancers.
Instead the piece is delivered in a strangely low energy tone and there was little exposition in terms of story, analysis or journey. The dancers don't need to be energised spinning tops especially if the subject is subtle and contextual but then it is necessary to deliver the content with more finesse and precision than was provided here.
The whole thing has the look and feel of a High School project (which it isn't) that is overblown and underdeveloped. The full price ticket is £10.50 if I had paid for my ticket I would have felt short changed.
The show is billed as 50 minutes, in fact on the day I saw it didn't reach 25 minutes for which I was most grateful.
Runs until the 13 August, 13:50