Blue Desire  

Mette Ingvartsen’s choreography “to come” swelters and churns with sensuality and joie de vivre.  From the first silent sequences where the five dancers totally cradled in blue cloth, climb and crawl and sniff among and between each other like living statues on an erotic voyage. In this wonderful  alteration between moving and frozen figures, we experience the physicality of intimate connecting and intercourse situations without it ever becoming vulgar. Quite the opposite - it is both humorous  and beautiful. 

In the second segment, the dancers, now in street clothes, create a chorus that gives voice to the  orgiastic course of events we have just witnessed. And in the third segment they pump with enjoyment in a long, explosive and very energetic jazzed up dance that, without words, screams  “hurrah for the body’s sensuality”.

Danish Mette Ingvartsen is educated in Amsterdam and Brussels and has her base in Belgium. Let  us hope that this year’s successful In Between Festival is repeated and that we once again get the chance to witness Ingvartsen’s choreography. ...{It} is world class performance.  (5 stars out of a possible 6)