Hofesh Shechter’s Sun

Overview

Israel-born, UK-based choreography magnifico Hofesh Shechter will treat us Antipodeans to another visit this month with the Sydney premiere of Sun, which made a serious impact at the 2013 Melbourne Festival. His work last appeared before Opera House audiences in 2010, when Political Animal came to town.

Described as a "visceral journey from perfect harmony to violence and change", Sun maintains Shechter's explosive, boundary-obliterating style and his preoccupation with major social and political issues. Torture, brutality, power abuse, repression and colonial domination are all confronted.

"Sun bypasses both quiet contemplation and intellectual analysis," writes one Guardian critic. "It is experienced directly as an unrelenting series of visceral stimuli; the audience perched, breathless." Expect a mash-up of pretty much every dance style that's been invented since humans first started moving their bodies to music — from traditional religious routines to classical ballet to Balkan circle dancing to hip hop moves.