This third annual season of New Original Dance, showcases the choreographies of four nascent dance makers on a cast of five dancers - four brand new to the Footnote company.
Each of the resulting works emerged fully formed after an average of just 10 working studio days. But the result is a programme as luscious and lively as it is interesting and professionally polished in content, performance and presentation.
Jessie McCall's Your Own Personal Exister is a sophisticated standout, with its well-developed enquiry into identify and the pitfalls of personal power - both taken and bestowed.
Cardboard crowns feature prominently: seized, surrendered, sicked-into, ripped and devoured. A lively soundtrack with an eighties vibe is supplemented with voiced-over text, mimed in comic book style by the dancers on stage with stretched open mouths in thrown back heads.
That pictorial style informs much of the movement vocabulary, as crystal clear in meaning as it is entertaining and quirky. But beneath its seductive topping of light heartedness, the work delivers quite a punch on a subject that involves us all.
