ROOTS: (Overseas) & Is Any Body Home? – Streatham Space Project, London
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Choreographer: Wency Lam
There’s something of Sarah Kane in Wency Lam’s double-bill of dance centred around migration. The first piece, Is Any Body Home?, is like something out of Blasted with its themes of cannibalism and torture. The second and better piece (Overseas) at least has nervous moments of laughter in its grim portrayal of protest. To give meaning to either of these works is difficult as they are both expressionistic, but the sense of disquiet is a memorable one.