Why Are People Clapping!? by Ed Myhill (restaged by Camille Giraudeau)

Set to composer Steve Reich’s Clapping Music, Why Are People Clapping?! uses rhythm as a driving force. Ed Myhill’s sense of humour is clear in the choreography as well as his appreciation for the music of life – rhythm can be found in a tennis match, footsteps in an empty street and in the beat of our own hearts – and dance can be inspired by that passion for living, from tapping your toes right up to the way our eyes scrunch up when we smile.