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Nats Nus Dansa Company has created a dancing argument. Its new piece, Loft, brings Spanish choreographer and performer. Toni Mira into confrontation with his other half - his creeping shadow. Grappling to open a biscuit packet, Mira sits solitary with his thoughts. The piece develops into improvised movement to slick upbeat music and choreographed duet phrases with his projected self on the backdrop. Moving across film stills of wind- swept sand and self-image photography. Mira distinguishes the difference between aloneness and loneliness. There are lovely moments as Mira moves gently through flickering light shards; competition and acceptance of his other self melt into one as he dances with his shadow. The explicit narration of his desperate attempts to play track number five on his CD player presents a futility seen all too often in absurd theatre. yet hardly ever represented in truthful dance-grounded pieces. It makes sense here. as Mira's dialogue with himself is one most of us have. but frequently fail to recognise. Still. one hour alone on stage is no easy feat. and there are sagging areas: the
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