The Happiness Project review – fabulous dancers jump for joy

The Place, London
Didy Veldman launches her company with a terrific show that encourages its audience to experience dance as a surge of emotionAre you happy? This most banal but quintessentially modern of questions is posed in an anonymous voiceover midway through Didy Veldman’s new work, and as her four dancers line up to answer they seem uncertain of their response. “Yes – why?” snaps one defensively, his eyes flickering askance. “It’s up and down,” sa