It’s as if you’ve turned up at the party when they’re all already too far gone. Dancers strewn across the stage, moving in sporadic tugs and jerks, or writhing flesh-to-flesh or just flat out on the floor, dressed only in nude-coloured pants and knee pads. Sweat and exhaustion is the mood.
This is Andrea Peña’s Bogotá. Peña, from Colombia and now based in Montreal, has a background in design but is now an award-winning choreographer. And hers is the opening show of this year’s Dance Umbrella festival, which is bringing new voices in dance to the UK.
