What Songs May Do... dance review: Love in motion
Two dancers chart the fragile, often uncomfortable rhythms of a failing relationship
Outgrown love is futile. What Songs May Do… attempts to engage the volatile seesawing of emotions in a failing relationship by playing with sound, motion and light. Accompanied by the heartbreaking and gorgeous music of Nina Simone, two lone dancers find each other’s rhythm and passion, proving that romance is unpredictable and sometimes uncomfortable.
In Dom Polski Centre, Oliver Chapman and Paolo Pisarra perform a visual representation of the phases of love and loneliness: a constant, cyclical contrast of light and shadow, music and silence, dance and stillness replicating the highs and lows of love. Chapman and Pisarra are undeniably talented dancers and What Songs May Do… is an evocative, elegant and animalistic dance of desire, danger and disgust (partial nudity and depiction of sexual activity included). A thought-provoking display for fans of artistic and emotional dance, be aware that the multiple moments of floorwork often can’t be seen on Dom Polski’s floor-level stage: grab the front two rows if you can, or your view will be obscured.
What Songs May Do… concluded at the Gatrage International a Dom Polski Centre on March 21.