11 – 28 February 2022
“a winning combination… cartoonishly full of skill, verve and vitality, and tickling your senses of both humour and wonder.” “Three dancers explore the harmony between music and movement in a show that flirts with parody as it unleashes joy” THE GUARDIAN★★★★☆
“A long, powerful solo by Harriet Ellis seems like a climax but is followed by a succession of aftershocks as the three tireless women lunge and high-kick like ecstatic Rockettes, running on three-quarter pointe, then saucily showing their knickers: part ballet class, part vaudeville and utterly irresistible.”
FT London ★★★★☆
“An evening of thrilling music, gorgeous visuals and sumptuous dancing.” theskinny.co.uk ★★★★
Named in the “TOP 10 DANCE SHOWS OF 2019” – THE GUARDIAN
Rosie Kay’s newest work takes ballet and tutus into the 21st Century using dance and science to create an exquisite performance of pleasure, beauty and finesse. Fine-tuning choreography with neuroscientific research, Kayquestions what it is that makes dance beautiful to watch and experience. Delve deeply into a soundtrack of Vivaldi, Purcell, Beethoven and Bach and revel in the vision of three bold female dancers as they discover love, loss, emotion and joy.
Birmingham Hippodrome Associate Rosie Kay worked with neuroscientists in the UK and Denmark’s Center for Music in the Brain to explore how dance can trigger sensations of pleasure and fulfilment in the brain. Fantasia is the result of her desire to make a work of pure joy inspired by music and the body’s response to it. With truly sumptuous costumes that defy expectation, join us on a journey of music, delight and fantasy.
trailer: https://youtu.be/ZnuJyYq6M38
full length, London November 2019: https://vimeo.com/378491435/e5cf198e5f
