Dancer and choreographer Mark Baldwin and composer Julian Anderson have created The Bird Sings With Its Fingers, a new orchestral dance work for the Mark Baldwin Dance Company and the 34 musicians of the chamber orchestra Sinfonia 21 who work with them.
Moving images: Part of The Bird Sings With Its FingersThe work was inspired by Jean Cocteau's seminal film Noir Orphee, a surreal retelling of the Orpheus in the Underworld myth.
The music is said to be graphic and intense and the dance highly inventive with undertones of hummer and violence.
The Bird Sings With Its Fingers comes to the Oxford Playhouse on Monday for one night only.
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