As I said in the title, I found that this was a moving show exploring the topic of immigration and the search for a ‘home’. 

Six main professional dancers told the story of the high emotional and mental stress of immigrant families with the help of many non-professionals, from the local community. Although there was no narrator or explanation of what was happening on stage, the dancers’ incredible physical theatre perfectly allowed the audience to interpret and follow the story in many ways.  

I think, as this performance was rather hard-hitting to fully understand, it was intended for a more mature audience. It helped me to develop my knowledge of dance, because I do not usually attend shows like this. I appreciated the dancers' physical movement and the storyline of the impact of immigration on communities and families. 

Alleyne Dance is a UK-based dance company, run by twin sisters Kristina and Sadé Alleyne. They strive for high-quality and excellence with their physically powerful, yet graceful performances. The Company has three main objectives: performance, participation and development, which was shown in this piece through the involvement of both professional and local community dancers. 

Throughout the show, there was an intriguing use of earth in the costumes and staging. With seemingly tattered, but also stylish costumes with earthy tones, which helped with the image of the ‘journey’ of the immigrants and theme of discovery because as the clothes weren’t modern, the audience saw that the dancers represented people from the past, and generations way before our time. Sprinkled across the stage was piles of soil, which the dancers used as a sort of prop, they also used a combination of water and light at the end of the show to represent the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ at the end of their both physically and emotionally strenuous journey. The completion, hope and happiness of these immigrants. I think this nod to nature and our planet is an acute representation to how our human exploration of the world and mission to find a ‘home’ relies on nature.