For Hofesh Shechter, being the great hope of contemporary dance has sometimes seemed a burden. From his breakthrough with the towering In Your Rooms in 2006 to the formation of his own company two years later, the Israeli choreographer has always seemed propelled by his intense, dark vision – and weighted by its responsibility.
His new work, Theatre of Dreams, is richly rewarding, shaped by an imagination that slinks along a tightrope between dream and nightmare. It opens with a dancer rising from the stalls to bend through a triangular hole in a curtain and progresses through a series of split-second sweeps and reveals, different sets of curtains swooping across the stage to reveal ever-changing tableaux.
