Darren Johnston/Array presents Outré

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Outré is a unique event: a distinctly altered theatrical world where music hall meets end of the pier freak show meets ghost train: a disturbing but extraordinary beautiful place within which Darren Johnston’s choreography for his company of six dancers exists in all its startling, haunting originality.
In a half-lit haze on a monochrome stage a chanteuse sings a fragmented lyric: a woman in a hooped frock has a mannequin’s face: a flamenco dancer twitches to radio static and a Japanese ghost-girl gyrates in falling rain. All appear in their black-and-white world somewhere on the edge of consciousness.
With commissioned music from Christian Vogel and Warp artists including Jamie Lidell and Tyondai Braxton (Battles), Darren Johnston has created a seamless unity of live performance, music and visual design in a way that engages on a myriad of sensory levels.
Suitable 15+

‘Mesmerising… a cabaret for a nightmarish world. It has its own logic and haunting, disturbing and quite extraordinary beauty’ - Metro *****