Gothenburg

Cross depicts consumer society and our seclusion from nature through light and scenography, paired with TikTok-paced choreography that renders the dancers almost symbolic— powerful performers reduced to moving cogs in a system of images, until the final scene set to Nina Simone’s Sinnerman— a moment that rides on the song’s irresistible energy while risking misrepresenting its historical weight. Spirit Willing creates rooms of light and haze, shifting between solitude and collectivity with a choreographic vocabulary strongly reminiscent of Crystal Pite. With the exception of Aishwarya Raut’s material—her distinct presence and honest movement investigation contrasting the collective pulse—the piece offers little room for individuality. It ends abruptly, without the resolution its ...