Manchester Collective & Thick & Tight: Papillons

Wednesday 6 May, 7.30pm, 1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)Djanogly Theatre£20-£24Kaija Saariaho Sept PapillonsImogen Holst The Fall of the LeafCHAINES New commissionLaura van der Heijden CelloThick & Tight DanceCHAINES ElectronicsManchester Collective joins forces with dance-theatre company Thick & Tight.

Daniel HayGordon and El Perry's radical work flits between ballet and cabaret, the absurd and the disarmingly moving.

At the heart of the show is Saariaho’s Sept Papillons – a set of seven miniatures for solo cello, darkly exquisite and fiendishly difficult – performed by Laura van der Heijden, one of the leading cellists of her generation.

Multimedia artist CHAINES completes this riotous line-up fusing electronic and classical music to create surreal textures.