It’s humorous, this present. Perhaps not from the off, once you’re simply questioning what on earth’s happening, however the performers – three of them, all taking part in characters known as Andrea – have a approach of regularly successful you over, primarily with silliness and a way of us all being in cahoots. Their considerably gormless look helps: moustaches and curly wigs increase a smile.
The present’s creator, Simone Mousset, is a younger Luxembourger choreographer who skilled in London. She at present works between the UK, France and Luxembourg, the place she is choosing up curiosity in her hard-to-pin-down model of dance theatre. The Ardour of Andrea 2 (an imagined sequel, don’t fear in regards to the backstory) is devised with three very likable performers, Lewys Holt, A de la Fe and Bryn Thomas, who shortly flip from genial to aggressive to homicidal, short-circuiting on the first signal of unease or any perceived slight and rebooting to start out once more.
They pull the viewers into their antics in what’s an elaborate, absurdist celebration sport, full with Pythonesque surrealism, improvised tangents, pretty spectacular singing and a good quantity of – technical time period – pratting about. What’s fulfilling is to share of their glee and their spirit of creation, the pleasure in seeing one performer choose up one other’s thread and run with it, whether or not buzzing a concord, a little bit of wordplay or a dance transfer.
The work’s objective is trickier to fillet out from the enjoyable and video games: is there one thing larger happening right here? It is likely to be a deconstruction of the hero narrative; it is likely to be about how we obsess over our personal tiny lives and petty energy struggles when actually we’re specks within the universe; it is likely to be in regards to the penalties of performing out excessive reactions to delicate discomfort. There’s some delicate mocking of latest dance itself, because the trio sing their approach by a dance sequence: “Fake to be a corkscrew!” “Expressive arms!”
That is amusing, well-crafted, convincingly carried out nonsense. However it’s laborious to argue it really goes a lot deeper than that.
