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Manchester Collective & Thick & Tight

Papillons

Wed 6 May 2026, 7.30pm

Djanogly Theatre

£24

Concession prices available.

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Running time

1 hour 10 minutes, no interval, followed by Q&A

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On general sale Tue 26 Aug, 11:00am

On general sale Tue 26 Aug, 11:00am

This event is sold out. Please contact our box office on 0115 846 7777 to be added to the waiting list.

Dissolving the boundaries between classical music and other artforms, Manchester Collective join forces with dance-theatre company Thick & Tight to present a searing live performance like no other.

Drawing on queer culture, Daniel Hay-Gordon and El Perry’s radical work flits between ballet and cabaret, the absurd and the disarmingly moving.

At the heart of the show is Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Sept Papillons’ – a set of seven miniatures for solo cello, darkly exquisite and fiendishly difficult. Great strength is needed to handle something so delicate. Taking up the mantle is Laura van der Heijden, one of the leading cellists of her generation.

Manchester-based multimedia artist CHAINES completes this riotous line-up. Their work synthesises cutting-edge technology with their classical training to create surreal, glitchy textures.

Photo: Darren Evans

 

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