The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs- Yippeee 2006。

Maybe too amazing for me to bare it during 100 mins non-stop shocking and waiting!


The beautiful spelling for these dance companies caught my eyes as well as my ears. After some research of the companies, I got even more interested in their performance.


It was a big feast for both visual languages and sound, and still has their own style of choreographing. On the stage, there wasn’t many sets on it, simply took all the tabs and legs off, exposed the stage behind the proscenium. There were 8 (or 10) booms (or small scaffolds) with lighting on them. Music band (DJ set) was at up-centre. Very much like a post-modern style.

Costume was outstandingly designed by Simon Vicenzie. The style and amount of its own evoked me the colour and senses of circus. Alien’s shapes, full of funny and interesting ideas just like they were really having fun with clothes and no restriction with diaphanous trousers from which dangle an extra leg, ropes of pearls that come accessorised with gas masks and padded taffeta skirts that sport kangaroo tails.

Choreography was also having its strong compelling weirdness-- chug in geometric formation; exotic tableaux are fringed with slowly fanning arms and legs; hands dance an exquisite kaleidoscope. But the cast never looks fully human, sometimes reverting to primitive animal mannerisms, sometimes simply twitching through ghostly, residual dance memories.

But in reality, I really could not bare for all the performance with lots of period which wasn’t a dancer standing out while they were busy changing their clothes on the stage. I would say it was totally an ordeal for me being an audience. Influenced by that feeling, I could not even enjoy the visual part since I was so tired of waiting and getting bored with that “post-modern” style of performance.