REVIEW: RESOLUTION triple bill at The Place 7 Feb 2026

 'The overarching theme of this evening’s Resolution was, I would say, femme’ ★★★★

Artists

Room- Room Dance Company

Remains Still – Lilah Bobak

Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizards: Act1 – Kirstin Halliday

The evening opened with a striking image of red threads, suggesting the veins of a womb. Accompanied by projected footage of cell division, Room by Room Dance Company explored female energy from within the body. Refreshingly, although the work touches on birth, it is not framed through motherhood, but through the internal rhythms of the body itself. Rather than explaining or narrating, the piece gently flows with this pulse, offering a reflective glimpse into processes that usually remain unseen.

This was followed by remains still by Lilah Bobak. Most striking were the elongated, interconnected costumes, which seemed to define and extend the performers’ movement. Despite the visual suggestion of entanglement, the effect felt less restrictive and more like a gesture of connection and longing, producing a smooth, continuous physical dialogue between the dancers.

The evening closed with the witty non-movement piece Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizards, Act 1 by Kirstin Halliday. After two more elaborate dance works, it was refreshing to encounter performers who largely remained still, embodying desert lizards. A documentary-style narration accompanied them, and as the audience waited for movement to begin, subtle shifts emerged: fingers slowly unfurling, a twitch here, a breath there. This near-stillness created a strangely dizzy sensation, like air vibrating in desert heat. Referencing the whiptail lizard species in which males have gone extinct and only females remain, the work comically subverted the male gaze on the female body.

Overall, it played more like a loosely connected triple bill.

RESOLUTION 2026 Festival of new choreography

The Place, London

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