The theme of this year’s Venice Dance Biennale is We Humans, and the idea is providing a strong sheltering umbrella for a programme of thoughtful and engaging work.
In Still Life, by the Norwegian Alan Lucien Øyen, and Behind the South, by the Colombian Rafael Palacios, two radical, committed choreographers present pieces that beneath their obvious contrasts – one cool and cerebral, the other with an accelerating pulse – are beautifully poised explorations of what it means to assert humanity in the face of different oppressions.
