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Figures of Extinction- Nederlands Dans Theater & Complicite
Why Book? Don’t miss this major new collaboration between world-renowned international artists Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney, and the astounding NDT 1 dancers.
Faced with the devastation of our environment, Pite and McBurney present their rallying cry.
Can we ever hope to give a name to what we are losing? What does it mean to bear witness to a violence in which we are both perpetrators and victims?
Over the last four years, fuelled by the urgency of our times and the increasing global destruction they were witnessing, Pite and McBurney have weaved their hopes and fears for our current moment into this moving and timely dance trilogy. The result, Figures in Extinction, is a cross-continental conversation split into an evening of three startling, half-hour works which fuse dance, performance, spoken word, documentary and music.
Figures in Extinction [1.0] the list (Winner of the most impressive dance production at the 2022 Nederlandse Dansdagen) is a study of the species and environments we have lost and are losing. This piece was previously seen at Sadler’s Wells in 2022.
Figures in Extinction [2.0] but then you come to the humans is a searing look at our need for connection in a separated world.
Figures in Extinction [3.0] requiem is a requiem for grief, and our relationship with the dead.