Yesterday

Jasmin Vardimon Company are energy-filled and entertaining, with very physical dance – tumbling as much as dancing, much of it ­­- allied to text, video and very clever use of projection… They are virtuosi of contemporary physical dance, and whereas some do it pretty well, Jasmin Vardimon Company do it to perfection.

This highly original dance piece works on many levels. Vardimon refuses to be pigeonholed and simply repeat herself, which gives the show a fresh appeal even for audience members who know her work. As Jasmin herself says: “There is no central narrative”- but this does not matter. Visually, this is absolutely stunning.

Yesterday clearly hit the spot for its vociferous and largely very youthful audience.

Jasmin Vardimon is a trailblazer in the sense that she takes onboard serious content and uses the stage to grapple with the underbelly of life; nasty, uncomfortable issues rarely touched upon in dance.

Yesterday took the capacity audience on an imaginative and disjointed journey through memory and experience, utilising an incredible combination of technology and pure movement.

Never stopping and never boring, Jasmin Vardimon’s Yesterday, a damn fine rollercoaster ride of a production, does a lot more than it says on the tin – at least technically and does it all in just 75 minutes at the Corn Exchange, Brighton.

Vardimon makes clever use of technology throughout her work. Yesterday (pictured) opens with a man lying on his back, feet in the air. On those feet stands YunKrung Song. She is holding a fishing-rod, from which dangles a camera. What she is filming – mainly us, the audience – appears on a huge screen behind her.