Five become one: Spanish-UK dance company Humanhood’s Torus at The Lowry

Fresh from its UK premiere in Birmingham (where the dance company Humanhood has one foot; the other is in Barcelona), Torus is less a choreography of individuals and more a living, breathing entity of five dancers moving as one. Showcasing the internationally acclaimed company’s trademark synergy and fluidity, Torus successfully expands on Humanhood’s usual duet performances; the most recent being Zero. Still apparent is co-artistic directors Rudi Cole and Júlia Robert Parés’s interest in and inspiration by both physics and astrophysics and Eastern mysticism. In geometry, a torus is a three-dimensional surface of revolution, not unlike a doughnut in appearance, found everywhere in nature and called the “energetic field” in Eastern practices. Torus the dance piece is a journey into the toroidal flow, expanding and collapsing through chaos and stillness. Influenced by award-winning Taiwanese percussion group Ten Drum, Rudi and Júlia commissioned an original “tribal” score from Polish-born Birmingham-based electronic duo / sound designers EIF (Earth Is Flat), aka Kamil Boguslawski and Kamil Ilcewicz, and, combined with light design by dance expert Tom Visser and costumes by Mary Portas-endorsed Mark Howard, manage to produce a piece where rhythm really does become visual.

Mon 11 Mar, The Lowry, Pier 8, The Quays, Salford, M50 3AZ, Tel: 0843 208 6000, 8pm, £12-16, www.thelowry.com

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