Papillons

About the show

MANCHESTER COLLECTIVE & THICK & TIGHT
Papillons
Wednesday 6 May, 7.30pm, 1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)
Djanogly Theatre
£20-£24
Kaija Saariaho Sept Papillons
Imogen Holst The Fall of the Leaf
CHAINES New commission
Laura van der Heijden Cello
Thick & Tight Dance
CHAINES Electronics
Manchester Collective joins forces with dance-theatre company Thick & Tight. Daniel HayGordon and El Perry's radical work flits between ballet and cabaret, the absurd and the disarmingly moving. At the heart of the show is Saariaho’s Sept Papillons – a set of seven miniatures for solo cello, darkly exquisite and fiendishly difficult – performed by Laura van der Heijden, one of the leading cellists of her generation. Multimedia artist CHAINES completes this riotous line-up fusing electronic and classical music to create surreal textures.