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May-We-Go-Round zany dance mayhem from The Hiccup Project Barbican Theatre November 28th 2016

May-We-Go-Round  The Hiccup Project   Barbican Theatre November 28th 2016 I first saw this show as a short showcase at the NRTF conference in Falmouth in July.  At that event it had an anarchic appeal which, despite being foreshortened, whetted my appetite In Plymouth at the Barbican Theatre, a centre in the South West of innovative dance programming and exploratory work I saw the show in its entirety.  And wow what a laugh and a helter skelter ride. May-We-Go-Round  This show is unconventional, sassy, full of humour, and alternative.   It navigates well the fine line between artfulness and chaotic slap stick mucking about.     Two dancers Christina Mackerron and Chess Dillon-Reams give a very dynamic physical workout and an amusing script deconstructing the various unsatisfactory relationships two twenty- somethings have  The pair “play” with the audience - pushing at the conventions.   We are introduced to  their “workout” - the daily grind which we begin to see is part of th