BABEL, preview

"Back in 2003, choreographic duo Liam Steel and Robert Tannion chose a tellingly ambiguous, truculent name for their newly launched company. Seven years on, Stan Won't Dance continues to resist labels, a group that moves between theatre, new writing, music and visual art, and courts bleak, challenging subject matter. For Babel, they collaborate with writer Patrick Neate on an exposure of the poverty of the moral discourse in contemporary Britain. Combining an extreme physical dance vocabulary with dynamic street verse, the show's creators flay the nation's obsession with celebrity, fashion and shopping, expose the dullness of PC rhetoric, and attempt to give a voice to the dispossessed and disregarded. Ambitious and polemical, this all-male piece has a striking visual setting by Matt Spencer and Andy Purves."