ORIGIN – the new double-bill from Scapino Ballet Rotterdam

I think darkness was the operative word and black was the operative colour in Xingxing Gong’s Kiss the Darkness, part of Origin, the new double-bill from Scapino. This impressive and masterful piece of theatre was all strange threatening shapes and ominous angular shadows which put me in mind of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari or the 1922 film of Nosferatu.