A park may seem an ordinary enough setting for a dance production, but it offers no shortage of extraordinary characters for performers and audiences to wrestle with.

There’s the strutting hood, who menaces one and all with his muscular moves; his fearsome track suited girlfriend who beats him into a dog-like state; the smarmy agent trying to sell off the community space and purge it of its anti-social elements; and the Japanese photo-taking investor.

The wonderful array of personalities set up Jasmin Vardimon’s Park for a tangle of creative clashes, as desire and hedonism met greed and lust.

We saw the big-bottomed Romanian lady, who despite her hunched back and unsteady stance, managed to swirl her heavy bags around her head in a comically elegant way.

Nationalism was sent up, as the hoodlum hollered empty slogans and swiped his St George’s flag – aggression transformed into pathos by the sound of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s The Power of Love.

A sense of community, protection of shared space and desire for love were all at the heart of the impressive production.  

Music played an integral role throughout, alternating between fantastically loud, pulsing electro and beautiful sweeping pieces such as Fiona Apple’s cover of Across the Universe.

The caricaturesque characters were usually hilarious and often physically amorous, eliciting gasps of astonishment from the students in the audience at the sight of naked flesh. 

Park was a romp as physically enjoyable for dance aficionado as it was for first-time novices.