Nederlands Dans Theater NDT1 review – a cri de coeur about the climate crisis

Figures in Extinction [1.0]: ‘angry and incredibly moving’. Photograph: Rahi Rezvani

Choreographer Crystal Pite and Complicité theatre director Simon McBurney are two of the most distinctive creators at work today. So it was always likely that, if they worked together, they could produce something special.

Figures in Extinction [1.0] is just that. The highlight of this new triple bill from NDT 1, it is a cry from the heart about all that is being lost thanks to the climate emergency – both angry and incredibly moving. It opens with McBurney’s distinctive voice floating over the dancers who stand ready, heads and hands moving in time to his speech as he discusses how he will read a list on extinction.