10,000 Gestures review – a thrilling blizzard of movement

Mayfield Depot, Manchester
With capoeira kicks, pirouettes and the odd buttock scratch, Boris Charmatz’s show tests the limits of how we experience danceBoris Charmatz’s 10,000 Gestures can be exhilarating, enervating and overwhelming in equal measures. The French choreographer has taken over the cavernous space of the old Mayfield train depot and, during the space of an hour, he pushes the title of his new work to the extreme, bombarding his audience with a chaos of movement so rapi