The dancers were not ‘talented’. Let me qualify that - they were fantastic hip hop dancers (although we were only allowed about 5 minutes of this), but when they started to perform the slow motion sections etc, their technique was awful - one of them couldn’t even keep a pose still for a few seconds. If you want to see superb contemporary dancers, just check out a DV8 show.

I am all for experimentation, defying expectations, the shock of the new and so on, but if you are going to do that, don’t sell (expensive) tickets by stealth, marketing your show in a way that leads to your audience to believe they are going to be attending a completely different show.

In fact, much of the blame may well lie with the festival, as they convieniently programmed Telesquat prior to H2, which was a much more dynamic show, and was reviewed as such, just before H2 was being staged. As the reviewer above notes, to then describe a show as excruciatingly, painfully slow and tedious as this as “an explosive new work… which fuses the breathtaking energy, colour and shape of hip hop dance into a unique contemporary dance style” is verging on criminal.