Sun

Hofesh Shechter is an extraordinary talent and Sun a vibrant work that poses the seemingly simple question about good and bad. But perhaps that simplicity is his intent, the cardboard cut-outs a comment on our own simplistic attitudes to black and white, good and evil. What is not simple is his extraordinary skill in creating complex and stirring visual theatre. His use of sound is second to none, his use of light, and often the lack of, it is genius. Shechter is certaibly not afraid of the dark – in every sense. His dancers are a fluid but precisely drilled team, at times merging in the dim, misty gloom into one amorphous seething mass and at others critically sharp, violently exposed and dangerous. And in that is perhaps a key, a love of danger, of the darkness in us all. I hope one day to see this immense talent express tenderness and love using his incredible physical and visual vocabulary.
Dome Concert Hall
3 May
Andrew Kay
4.5 stars