Review: LA VERONAL PASIONARIA at Sadler’s Wells

The Pasionaria of the title is an artificial, futuristic landscape, in which the emotionally divested humanoid inhabitants move in disjointed zombie-like jerks and shuffles, whilst others stomp like automatons and still more possess a physical fluidity which defies gravity.

The complexity and inventiveness on show — where not a twitch is out of place and precision movement is meticulously delivered — is superb. Such multi-disciplinary spectacles aren’t to everyone’s taste, but even the uninitiated will be impressed by the performance skills on display and in a world where diminishing individuality and a moral vacuum has rendered many citizens impotent and at the mercy of autocratic regimes, this futuristic dystopia may not be an entirely fanciful leap of imagination after all.