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In their 17th performance project, Bodies in Flight delve into our fascination with the athlete's drive to physical excellence; their supreme attention to bodily task, the high point on the parallel bars, the thousands of minute adjustments needed to hold that still. In collaboration with video artist Tony Judge, composer Jen Bell and Night Bus Choir, Gymnast uses the training session as both source and structure, from warm-up routines to the display of gymnastic exercises, from novice to expert, to explore the continuing power of the Olympian ideal of athlete as interface between human and superhuman, the mortal and the divine. This is a Dance4 Co-commission with Bristol Ferment.