DANCE Touring Partnership and Sherman Theatre present Ultima Vez’s What the Body Does Not Remember.

After wowing audiences 28 years ago with its brutal confrontation of dance and music set to a dangerous, combative landscape, Ultima Vez’s show makes it first visit to Cardiff.

A brand new cast will perform this ground breaking work at the Dance House, Sherman Theatre on February 20 and 21.

Premiering in 1987, Wim Vandekeybus’s What the Body Does Not Remember caused a sensation in the world of dance with its intense atmosphere and high octane physicality. It was so well received in New York that year it garnered a prestigious Bessie Award - unusual for a debut piece of choreography - for Vandekeybus and composers Thierry de Mey and Peter Vermeersch.

What the Body Does Not Remember, Vandekeybus’ first piece of choreography is neither polite dance nor pleasant shapes to pretty music. It balances on the razor edge of attraction and repulsion.

The dancers are driven to act and react at high speed, and with split second timing, to both each other and to the music – and where its moments of humour thread through explosions of aggression, fear and danger in an adrenaline-fuelled performance, played out on a combative landscape.

Now 28 years on and with a new cast, this iconic piece of physical theatre, remains one of the most exciting pieces of dance ever made.

This is the first time Sherman Theatre will be presenting a piece of dance at the Dance House, home to the National Dance Company of Wales.

For further details and tickets please contact Sherman Theatre on 02920 646900 or visit www.shermancymru.co.uk.