Danza Contemporanea de Cuba

no photography at the event so I'm going for an arty picture off my laptop angle

Pictured you have the Olivier award winning Mambo 3XXi

But I was just blown away with Itzik Galili's new choreography Sombrisa. Performed with boxing gloves it starts with a stiff syncopated face off, before flowing into a fluid frenzy, leaping acrobatics and slinky linked armed entropy at the end. Sometimes it's a fight, sometimes it's love, sometimes it's sex, sometimes it's friendship or groups - but always always are the dancers strong and stunning and occasionally.. even smiling. We were close enough to hear them laugh, sing and breath, but there was hardly a sound when they landed despite the height of the double helix spins or somersault lifts.

And they achieved that most rare thing of all in contemporary dance, laughter - their Carmen?! camped up the machismo all the way to cattle-molestation.

Beautiful evening courtesy of my lovely and very cultured cousin Clare who got me the tickets. All I had to do in return was feed us my legendary 10 min meatballs made out of spicy sausages. Clearly I got the better part of this deal..