Jules Cunningham is best known as a longtime dancer with Merce Cunningham (no relation), always a striking, if opaque, physical presence in the legendary choreographer’s impersonal work. But in this show Cunningham tentatively starts to let us in and to present themself on stage.
This double bill is called a “queer response” to the music of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. There’s an intriguing opening to the first piece, m/y-kovsky, set to Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 and danced in pleather dungarees, where Cunningham and Eleanor Perry are in cahoots, shyly swapping small signals, knowing looks and scribbled notes, alert to details and codes.
