The earth moves in this show by Danish company, Recoil. Really it does. Sit in-the-round, if you can. The floor becomes a giant speaker; benches lining the stage thrum with a Lars Greve farm-machinery soundscape. The performer/co-creators (one a floor-rolling, sometimes-breakdancing contemporary dancer; the other barefoot ‘neo-flamenco’) use audience seating as percussion. It’s eyeball-to-eyeball. We see every shoulder ripple, wrist flick and eyelash flutter. 

You don’t watch Harvest, you step into it. Choreographer Tina Tarpgaard takes as source the ‘working body’ in agriculture and dance. There is grass onstage. Compelling Jossette Reilly stamps and shakes soil from feet in suitably earthy flamenco steps. She talks about creative evolution; about dance shaping her body, her skeleton. Meanwhile, Hilde I Sandvold has tidal wave energy. She tumbles, trembles, stops in a headstand where, impressively, she delivers an anecdote about the dichotomy of mind and body.

Spoken-word snippets dangle insight into Harvest’s big ideas (and extensive research interviews with farmers) but never really expand. And at points the choreography is disjointed. But in sections like the closing one, when Reilly dons heels and hammers a rhythm that becomes one with the soundtrack (and audience), this is a gloriously bone-shaking, immersive piece. 

Harvest, ZOO Southside, until 19 August, 6.30pm.