If there is difficult second album syndrome, a similar affliction seems to be affecting the choreographer Botis Seva. Just announced as an associate artist at Sadler’s Wells, the London-born Seva is a supreme dance-maker, someone who has honed hip-hop dance into his own expressive, communicative form for his company Far from the Norm.
But there has been a long gap between the powerful Blkdog (2018), which is still touring worldwide, and his new Until We Sleep, which had its UK premiere last week at the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange. It reveals Seva’s astonishing ability to shape images, with dancers pinioned in cones of Tom Visser’s smoky light, a backdrop of illuminated florescent shards marking the stages of what seems to be a journey.
