One to catch: Liz Aggiss

Survival Tactics reviews Liz Aggiss’ career, celebrates her influences, from British music hall to Central Europe’s lost dances, offers a few tips to performers and fuses academic lecture, cabaret wit and a dry irony into a funny, feminist, ferocious hour.

Frequently seen recreating the work of Mary Wigman or Martha Graham in surprising locations, in this solo show Aggiss throws together her past triumphs and critical maulings, salutes her inspirations and struggles with definitions for performances that resolutely deny classification. An unsentimental journey through Live Art’s evolution, Aggiss proves that she has the balls to go all out, then throws them at the audience.

Unashamedly intelligent, yet executed with vaudeville humour, Survival Tactics is abrasive and charming, a college lecture that meanders into the personal, the political and the aesthetic, bursting into dance and questioning what it means to survive as an artist.