The final pairing were Lydia Cottrell and Ben Mills and the explosive piece of dance theatre called ‘ATOMIC’. The glare of the searchlight picks out two battle-scarred goons in combat fatigues. The two embark on an exploration of military machismo with an S.A.S. training sequence, involving martial arts and militancy. High kicks and the obligatory vocalised machine gun sounds ended with a barrel-to-barrel, John Woo style Mexican standoff, that morphs into spaghetti western gunslingers. Inventive, highly original and unpredictable, the two performers create a multi-sensory experience, with sound and scent, a heady and, at times violent, mix that envelops the audience.
