choreographer Andy Howitt cites a line from the 1957 film, 12 Angry Men, as his starting point for this pleasingly ambitious all-male dance piece.
The line – "it takes a great deal of courage to stand alone" – refers, in the film, to Henry Fonda's lone stance in a jury room against the guilty verdict voted for by the others. You could say that, here, the injustice Howitt is addressing – and opposing to stirring effect – is the way older dancers are edged off-stage even when they clearly still have much to offer choreographers and audiences alike.
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