Drama of meetings where anything can happen played out.
In the latest circus-cabaret from Dust Palace, a breathtaking display of acrobatic finesse conjures up a spiralling sequence of images based on the capricious delights that come from risking an encounter with a stranger.
The company's dedication to their craft is manifest in an ever-expanding repertoire of circus techniques, while the remarkable elasticity and strength of the performers testifies to a rigorous regime of training and exercise.
The show opens with Zach Washer taking his chances inside a large spinning hoop that amplifies the vertiginous acceleration that occurs when a spinning coin tilts.
Mike Edward introduces a touch of Chaplinesque humour as a workman taking on the Sisyphean task of ascending a silk rope that is constantly descending. His short-lived triumphs are inevitably followed by tumbling falls that leave him dangling upside down like the Hanged Man of Tarot.
