Concrete Playground

From the newly formed Animal Farm Collective comes a surreal Orwellian vision. This take on the modern tale of power and exploitation features bears instead of a pig dictatorship, sex rather than politics and humans in the farmyard.

More specifically, the set up is this: the head of the food chain is not the humble human, as we typically tend to suspect, but the bear. These meddlesome predators occupy themselves by masterminding psychological traps, in order to test the humans' animal instincts. What follows is sexual and social chaos.

This bizarrely seductive vision is the perfect excuse for the heads of Animal Collective, Gavin Webber and Grayson Millwood, to bask in surrealism and to push their unconventional choreography to its limits. Expect the unexpected.

Image by Maurice Korbel