Each evening at the Place’s Resolution festival of new choreography showcases fresh green shoots, and this particular triple bill of bright, idea-driven dance was united by intriguing concepts. Each piece is a consideration of in-between states, most outlandishly the standout, Interchange, a questing solo by Seirian Griffiths.
In Interchange, the recently deceased Michael is informed via a voiceover that he has some excess baggage to process. The only way forward is to revisit the loves of his life. The setup prompts a dance of cleansing as Michael spins through his past, with Griffiths making graceful yet quicksilver transitions between contained bouts of torment. The hip-hop stylings are featherlight, but the holding bay scenario and voiceover strangely fall away, leaving some unfinished business.
Chinese choreographer Qi Song’s rave-inspired Archive/Flesh/Echoes explores the small hours. A corps of clubbers mobilise after sharing whispers and touches, fiercely concentrating on the music. The dancers capture the thread of an epic night out, its momentum waxing and waning. However, there is some generic clubby filler and it needs tightening to sear like similar attempts at transcendence through techno.
Isadora D’Héloïsa is “between bodies” in Entrecuerpos, also between flamenco and voguing. Performing her own choreography, she moves from flamenco’s tempestuous footwork to voguing’s duck walk and runway pizzazz. The fusion never quite becomes more than the sum of its parts, but its joys include inventive skirt-ography, with ruffles transforming into cape and camouflage for a piece alternating between sheer fabulousness and inner conflict.
