Ockham’s Razor, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, May 22 - 26

6:00am Tuesday 22nd May 2007

For the past four years, Ockham's Razor have been devising and performing arresting aerial feats, combining physical theatre with their various backgrounds in dance, fine art and communication studies. Tonight they will present two short pieces - Momento Mori and Every Action.

The first, which won the Jeunes Talents Cirque award when it premiered in Paris three years ago, is an eerie and intimate duet performed by the company's founders, Alex Harvey and Charlotte Mooney, on a simple suspended frame.

Inspired by Holbein's Dance Of Death woodcuts, it explores one woman's relationship with death and how that relationship changes throughout her life. The second piece, Every Action, takes cause and effect as its starting point, to look at the idea that everything you do will affect someone, somewhere.

An ensemble piece of fragile equilibrium and exquisite daring, it is performed by four strangers who jostle for position on a 25-metre set of aerial scales.

Ockham's Razor formed in 2004 and includes Alex, Charlotte and Tina Koch. Meline Danielewicz makes a guest appearance in Every Action.

All four met at Bristol's Circomedia, the UK's leading centre for contemporary circus with physical theatre. The name of the company is derived from the principle formulated by Franciscan monk William of Ockham, stating that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible.

"It's a philosophy that appealed to us," explains Charlotte. "If you could just give someone a hand and that would tell the story better than doing some really complicated elaborate move, then we'd go for the hand. That's the rule."

• 8pm, £10, 01273 709709

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