The organiser says:
Preview
This is an evocative performance conceived by voice artist Anne L Ryan in collaboration with Café Reason Butoh Dance Theatre, led by Ana Barbour. The combination of Anne L Ryan¹s sound score with the dreamlike succession of images make for a performance that is rich and full of surprises as each scene unravels and transforms. The performance has evolved in response to the famous medieval tapestries of The Lady and the Unicorn; here Butoh meets Courtly Love and the result is strange, hilarious, tender, and shocking.Each of the six dancers brings a uniquely personal quality to the whole – as if the formal scenario of the tapestries becomes a waking dream – at once both melodic and dissonant. It is this quality of dissonance and contradiction that gives the piece its unsettling strength. It is a journey from stately to burlesque, from iconographic to personal – and within this an echoing of medieval morality plays. This is a richly imaginative and engaging performance.