Counterpoint, Shobana Jeyasingh’s outdoor dance work for 22 dancers, returns to the fountains at Somerset House with eight performances 19–20 August.
Jeyasingh created Counterpoint specially for the 55 fountains of the Somerset House courtyard in 2010. The ten-minute dance work now returns as part of Somerset House’s Summer in the Courtyard and Westminster City Council’s Inside Out festival, bringing walking tours, art installations, outdoor cinema, family activities and theatre, music and dance performances out into the outdoor public spaces of Westminster.
Jeyasingh has worked with two frequent collaborators: Ursula Bombshell has created the costumes, and the score is by sound artist Cassiel.
For this revival, Emily Thompson-Smith, Meghan Stevens, Nafisah Baba and Shelley Eva Haden are joined by 18 young dancers.