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Originally Posted by Jobin

I saw this in preview and can confirm it contains nudity. Odd that the content warning specifies partial nudity, because the preview had full nudity from all six dancers for about five minutes right at the end; admittedly it was very darkly lit, but their bodies crawled and walked through sufficient flashes of light to see well enough. And that final sequence was introduced by a long nude solo from the choreographer, her oiled body thrashing around on the floor at the audience’s feet (both on her front and back).

The piece began with brief nudity, too: Caroline R-eece is topless for the opening section, though swathed in huge sheets of plastic, and then another (fully) naked body crawls in on all fours from front right and lies on the sofa, though you only really see her from behind.

For the rest of the piece the dancers are clothed, but the piece and the artistry is excellent - surreal in places (one notable sequence where a dancer’s head becomes detached from her body and rolls down her arm), erotic in others (a long love duet where they appear on the verge of ripping each other’s clothing off, but never quite get there).

Thanks for the excellent review. I thought this would be very well worth seeing regardless of the NOS content so am very pleased to have booked a good seat at one of the now sold out performances. I note however that the single night Salford performance has only sold a hand full of seats in a half closed theatre!