2008: Tag Along, an intense high energy duet... Performed to Nina Simone’s aptly named ‘He Needs Me’, dancers Melanie Simpson and Johnny Autin throw themselves through space and at each other, portraying a couple whose mutual passion results in an entangled claustrophobic relationship, bordering on the destructive. Though short in length the duet is thrilling and daring; sometimes tender, sometimes brutal – at one point Simpson is literally discarded and flung to floor by Autin only to leap up again and dive at her lover. Clinging desperately to his chest she is then spun furiously in a whirlwind of motion. Choreographer: Maddy Wynne-Jones. Photos: Irven Lewis. Dancers: Johnny Autin, Melanie Simpson.
by Michelle Harris