Invisible Cities

First performed: 2019 Choreographer: Sidi Larbi CherkaouiDirector: Leo Warner Adapted by: Lolita Chakrabarti Composer: Dustin O’Halloran, Adam Bryanbaum WiltzieSet designer: Jenny MelvilleCostume designer: Laura HopkinsLighting designer: Fabiana Piccioli

Invisible Citieswas created for the Manchester Festival and performed in an iconic, abandoned railway depot in Mayfield, Manchester. In a two-hour production involving 22 dancers as well as actors in speaking roles, it blends theatre, dance, music, architectural design and projection elements in an adaptation of a book by author Italo Calvino.

The action centres around the edgy relationship between Kublai Khan, the volatile head of a vast empire, and explorer Marco Polo, who must describe to him the cities he rules but may never see for himself. The