Jammy Dodgers

In a bold experiment Frauke Requardt and her dancers Maho Ihara, Eva Recacha Garcia and Conor Doyle collaborated with a team of London's most hotwired and acclaimed jazz musicians in an exploration of identity, entertainment and invention.

Recalibrating the relationship between live music and dance, Requardt challenges the way dancers approach and spontaneously appropriate her choreographed material, while a rolling line-up of musicians must acclimatize to farcical and surreal interruptions during their set.

The outcome is an hour-long show full of mischievous humour, dark interruptions and chaotic energy played out in a fantastical atmosphere to an intimately positioned audience.

The premier, which was a great success both in terms of audience capacity and its reception, was performed in The Robin Howard Dance Theatre at The Place. It took place over four nights, and incorporated two different jazz bands. This allowed for audiences to see the show twice and have a different experience and understanding of the way the choreographic material can be read alongside different music.