"In Magpie, we wanted to explode the taboos of what is and isn't done in a contemporary dance show," explains Theo Clinckard, one half of the award-winning Brighton-based duo, Probe.

As their name suggests, the company is devoted to probing new territories within dance, or, as Theo puts it: "exploring unconventional ways to present mixed dance bills".

Formed in 2004, Probe won the Critics' Choice award for their last show, Have We Met Somewhere Before. This was an eclectic triple bill which explored both the wild and tender side of human nature and featured work by Rafael Bonachela, Mark Bruce and Lea Anderson.

Their latest performance reinvents the old school variety show to present seven interlinked dances from radically different choreographers.

"It's called Magpie because we've collected different eclectic pieces by well-known choreographers and made it into our own show," says Theo.

"Audiences will experience a mix of styles from contemporary to tap and experimental dance and we have given it a kind of vaudeville feel with songs and comedy between the dance numbers."

Theo himself appears fresh from choreographing the video for Kylie Minogue's new single, Two Hearts, having worked with respected dance companies from Rambert to Siobhan Davies in the past.

Magpie features four specially commissioned duets from dark dramatist Mark Bruce, the experimental Mark Linehan, Broadway regular Steven Mear and the absurdly comedic New Art Club.

These will be performed alongside Trisha Brown's seminal work, Accumulation; Jeremy James' debut offering, Scag; and a Bessie award-winning piece from Israel's Yasmeen Godder.

"This will be a real chocolate box performance," says Theo. "Mark Bruce's piece opens like a classic vaudeville act with a woman lying on a slab waiting for the magician to perform his trick.

But it quickly becomes heart-rending when we realise the woman is dead and it's a piece about a man who wants to bring her back to life."

Theo regards Trisha Brown as one of the most revolutionary choreographers of the 20th century and regards it as a coup to be able to perform Accumulation.

"Trisha totally changed the way people see dance in this experimental movement piece which, considering it was written in 1971, is truly radical," he says.

Yasmeen Godder's work, performed to wild Japanese music, portrays the breakdown of a relationship.

"Godder's work is completely disturbing," says Theo. "Whereas New Art Club's piece attracts proper belly laughs, combining stand-up comedy with dance."

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