CanDoCo Dance Company January 29, 2009

In the piece Still audiences get the chance to experience a very theatrical style of contemporary dance.

Still is anything but. Nigel Charnock’s patchwork of ideas takes the dancers in a constant whirl guided by his eclectic choice of music. There are microphones and music boxes, knickers and bondage, love and death.

The DV8 founding member and dance maverick kidnaps dancers and audiences alike into a world of love and lust, addiction and obsession – using his unique blend of morbid irony, furious entertainment and black comedy.

Nigel says: “Still is a chaotic, wild, seriously funny piece about love and loss–a celebration of life and death written with bodies without limits.”

The Perfect Human is a dark unsettling piece that questions our search for perfection.

The piece starts by presenting us with the perfect human and ends with an anxious getaway with helicopter sounds looming above. Apart from its dense character other strong aspects of this piece are the contagious music – which alternates between rhythmic drums and lyrical classical music - and the relentless movement that is carried throughout.

Choreographer Hofesh Schechter uses the title, The Perfect Human in an ironic and thought-provoking manner, questioning the man-made concept of perfection. Juxtaposing edgy, obsessive movements with the questions ‘How does the perfect human move?’, ‘Why does he move like that?’ , the feeling is one of uncomfortable but compulsive interest in finding out what will happen next.

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