Brighton Dome
Dance fills the gaps between routines in this dreamy, sometimes highly charged reflection on train travel
Turning the act of, for example, swinging someone by their ankles from a physical feat into a rich emotional experience is the challenge that faces contemporary circus artists, and over the past 19 years, Montreal group the 7 Fingers has mastered it better than most. Formed as a breakaway from Cirque du Soleil, the troupe is a more human-scale experience than Cirque, the indie film rather than the spectacular action blockbuster.
Their latest show, Passagers, takes train travel as its theme, a palette of wistful goodbyes and new beginnings, setting out for adventure but not yet having arrived, being in motion but also in limbo – which is much like circus itself, always moving but in a place where normality is suspended.