For the past 10 years, the choreographer Charlotte Spencer has been making work outdoors, asking audiences to look carefully at the world and feel the place of their bodies within it. I have loved the delicacy and thoughtfulness of her journeys; they have altered my own perceptions.
Written in the Body, presented as part of the Brighton festival, marks her return to indoor theatre. A duet for two remarkable dancers – Petra Söör and Louise Tanoto – it has all the qualities associated with Spencer’s work: a quiet introspection expressed in tiny gestures; a swooping sense of dance filling a space; a heightened awareness of tactility and texture.
