Dance: Event Of The Week

Country Dance Tue to 24 Apr

The Place Theatre, London WC1

Installation artist and composer Graeme Miller joins with Matthew Hawkins, outre choreographer and much else besides, in Country Dance, a Place Production for its Spring Loaded season. If your idea of entertainment is Morris dancing or hunt balls, take care: Country Dance paints the opposite of rural picturesqueness. It promises the charm of city spaces, full of din and drizzle, but its tribe of urbanites will summon up fragments of a former English folk-dance language to invent a new street-wise social dance. Fumbling and colliding, raucous and stuttering, they will exorcise the beasts of the inner city and evoke its angels. They invite you to a pagan, urban and convivial celebration, using music and speech, as well as dance.

Graeme Miller, The Place Theatre, 17 Duke's Road, London WC1 (0171-387 0031) 20-24 April

Nadine Meisner