This season, the Cambridge Junction have hosted the international cast of Lost Dog dance company performing their acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show It Needs Horses alongside their new work Home for Broken Turns. Avant Garde dance company will be taking to stage, performing a triple bill of the The Black Album, A Classical Break and Dark Matter.

Daniel Pitt, Arts Producer at the Junction, describes Avant Garde’s work as “moody, with a dark atmosphere to it.” This group’s work focuses greatly on music, with The Black Album composed around responses to experimental DJ Jazzanova, while A Classical Break links Beethoven, Mozart and Prokofiev scores with break-dancing.

Compared to other forms of theatre, dance tends to attract smaller audiences, says Pitt, which is the same across the city: “There isn’t much of a dance theatre scene in Cambridge.” Despite his concerns over low audience numbers, Pitt certainly appreciates the liberating nature of dance. “Dance is less bound by convention. Contemporary dance is so free – almost as if there are no rules left at all. It affects you on a visceral level.” He admits that a lack of clear narrative during dance shows can scare some people away: “Dance is generally about feeling, it often isn’t easily understandable.”

Avant Garde Dance will perform at the Cambridge Junstion on Wednesday 13th November