Main content

28:1 - Mesmeric, polymorphic dance and athleticism

11 February 2022

The screen is a stage. With dancers in 28 squares, Constant Vigier's 28:1 offers dazzling visuals with ever-evolving patterns and formations. One of eight short films featuring innovation in visualising dance - for Dance Passion 2022.

28:1

Beautiful dancing and inventive patterns create dazzling visuals on the screen.

This short film offers dazzling visuals. By dividing the screen into 28 squares, the choreography creates ever-evolving, hypnotising patterns and formations.

The choreography creates ever-evolving, hypnotising patterns and formations.

Four dancers showcase incredible athleticism and precision, accompanied by an organic and electronic composition. The costumes are simple yet effective, playing with sharp contrasts of colours.

The piece is built in five movements, with each dancer bringing the viewer into their own world, before offering a finale bursting with energy and colours.

Innovation in dance

What is Dance Passion?

This is one of fourteen short films and interactive projects that explore innovative ways of capturing and experiencing dance, as part of Dance Passion - a landmark celebration of the world-class dance throughout February and March 2022. Â鶹ԼÅÄ Arts, in partnership with One Dance UK and supported by the Arts Council, bring you unique perspectives on the creative forces in dance, and spotlight innovation in choreography and performance.

Rambert performing in Plymouth for Dance Passion

Highlights include:-

  • Josie d’Arby and Karim Zeroual present five hour-long programmes of dance as a boxset on Â鶹ԼÅÄ iPlayer, and a special highlights programme on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four;
  • Performances by thirty-two companies, recorded in ‘dance hubs’ across the country;
  • Exclusive first screening of excerpts from Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote from Birmingham Royal Ballet;
  • World premiere of Corey Baker's thrilling new film, Dance Race;
  • Fourteen short films and interactive projects exploring innovative ways to experience dance.

Dance Passion on iPlayer

  • Highlights

    Josie d’Arby and Karim Zeroual with selected highlights from Dance Passion, including Birmingham Royal Ballet's Don Quixote.

  • Leeds

    Karim Zeroual presents from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, featuring Akram Khan, Vale School of Dance, Balbir Singh Dance Company, Phoenix Dance and more.

  • London

    Josie d’Arby presents Dance Passion 2022 from Sadler’s Wells in London, with exclusive performances from Ballet Black, Patience J Collective, The Royal Ballet and more.

  • Coventry

    Josie d’Arby and Karim Zeroual shine a spotlight on dance in the Midlands, brought to you from Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry,

  • Plymouth

    Josie d’Arby visits the Theatre Royal Plymouth’s production and learning centre TR2 to shine a spotlight on the UK dance scene, with a focus on what’s on offer in the South West.

  • Around the UK

    Includes National Dance Company Wales, and Scottish Ballet's Starstruck. Presented by Josie d’Arby & Karim Zeroual. Available 29 March on iPlayer.

Exclusive world premiere from Corey Baker

  • Dance Race

    From ballet to ballroom, sky-diving to car-eography, it’s a thrilling race to the finish in Corey Baker's stunning new film showing exclusively on Dance Passion.

Dance Passion 2022: Short films displaying innovation in dance