Performer: Ben Duke

Rambert presents an excellent cohort of expressive dancers, but the programme lacked an overall wow factor.

Clever in its concept, witty in its development, precise in its interpretation, refreshingly universal and accessible.

Choreographer Ben Duke offers a candid glimpse of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers if they had survived the gauntlet of death draughts and daggers.

Ben Duke takes on the role of a lifetime, playing God in his stunning one-man reimagining of Milton's Paradise Lost. 

Haunting scenes and brooding prose make Handspring Puppet Company’s Crow a shadowy addition to this year’s Greenwich + Docklands International Festival. Layered with dark imagery, Handspring, in collaboration with Ben Duke’s Lost Dog dance company, presents a winding take on Ted Hughes’ Crow, splicing his poetry with movement and intricate puppet representations of the crow.

Ben Duke a créé ce spectacle en partant de musiques de Nina Simone mais aussi de la lutte politique et sociale qu’elle incarnait. Il explore ici particulièrement la figure du bouc-émissaire, scapegoat.