2-5 Nov 2005. In On dane, choreography by Jos Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu. For Romaeuropa Festival, this latest creation by the Montalvo-Hervieu company is probably the most spectacular, colourful and joyeux so far concocted by the highly-original duo of choreographers who combine dance, music (from the opera Les Paladins by Jean Philippe Rameau), circus and video to produce powerful scenic effects. On dane is a very contemporary rendering of the baroque age and crowns the research carried out by the duo over the last decade. Twenty dancers perform African, hip hop and classical dances as they merge with Montalvos multicolour videos. Eden, represented by projected images, is a Noahs Ark without walls, with dancing elephants and mental landscapes outlined on a digital Dadaist panel, that transforms metropolitan trains into belle poque carriages and innocuous cups into pools for tigers.