A Dance Umbrella commission, Bird Song is presented in the round, bringing the audience strikingly close to the dancers.

Award winning choreographer Siobhan Davies has collaborated with visual artist David Ward and sound artist Andy Pink to create an extraordinary, full-on sensory experience as film, light and video sweep across her remarkable dancers to the accompaniment of an intriguing score. Bird Song draws on over one hundred different sound sources as inspiration, from classical music to jazz and baroque to digital samples. At the heart of the piece is the first sound to initiate the process: the song of the Australian Pied Butcher.