Melbourne Festival review: Triptyque's blend of circus and dance a new breed of hybrid

Like the traditional of tri-panelled artworks, Les 7 Doigts' Triptyque presents a trio of adjacent works. Created by established dancemakers, these works explore the intersection of circus, dance and theatre. Although visually quite different, when viewed together, there are thematic through-lines such as the extension and augmentation of the body, with human morphologies shifting to encompass the supernatural, the bestial, and the psychological. All three works draw on the rich and varied conventions of circus and dance (bearing in mind that the lines between these forms have long been blurring), but there is a sense here of a new flavour of hybridity.