In a series of shows brought here over the past decade by this Brazilian company, we were gripped by the dancers’ exhilarating athleticism and ingenious interaction with spectacular stage sets — a Ferris wheel, a climbing wall, a cobweb of ropes, a field of porcelain vases, even a versatile three-storey house.
In the second half of Colker’s latest piece (reviewed at the Wycombe Swan; it plays this week in Cardiff, then Birmingham, and tours until July 3), her regular designer, Gringo Cardia, offers four revolving mirrored panels within movable frames, each with a porthole through which bodies can thrust or vanish, limbs fragment or multiply, forming eerie, inhuman shapes.
