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Blackhaine: And Now I Know What Love Is review – avant garde dance that grabs hold of your senses
The convulsing figures in Tom Heyes’ choreography, paired with intense sound and a guttural MC, are caught in a mesmerising struggle for human connection
Blackhaine’s Tom Heyes is an experimental musician, rapper and choreographer – he’s worked with big rap names including Playboi Carti – who incorporates drill, drone, donk, and harsh soundscapes into his music, alongside practising the Japanese dance-theatre form butoh. Pummelling sub-bass floods the room and a guitarist on a balcony plays sparse melodic licks: it sounds like the Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly collaborating with drone titans Sunn O))). Dancers shudder and jerk violently on the floor, before the two left standing fall arm-in-arm – finding comfort and connection amid desperation – and everything goes pitch black.
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