Fearless Northern Ireland choreographer Oona Doherty performs a distillation of the male “evoking a stereotypical young man from the rough neighbourhoods of Belfast.”

Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus mixes physical and sociological theatricality, the urban dance alphabet, neoclassical ballet memories and the contemporary with an aspiration to the sacred in a riveting solo that barely holds violence at bay.

In this incarnation of the intuitive, Oona Doherty, who has surprised festival audiences throughout Europe, including the Edinburgh Fringe, where she won the Total Theatre Award, emerges from the ‘boot’ of a 1999 Volvo and dances to House music in the street. She then leads the audience through the halls of 92Y into Buttenwieser Hall where she performs her acclaimed solo.