Diane Parks, Birmingham Post

Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker’s work never fails to surprise and thrill audiences and this latest work is as exciting as ever.

With strong physicality and incredible dexterity and energy, the cast explore many facets of cruelty.

This gives the dance a sometimes jagged edge and a harsh brutality as the artists force their bodies between the forms of other dancers and twist partners away.

Colker has been working with Cirque du Soleil and there is a real circus element to this piece. Not only in the acrobatic movements of the dancers but also in the humorous breaking of illusions and the creation of a perception only to smash it.

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