Dance-circus company Motionhouse has announced that its next major touring production, Hidden, will premiere at Warwick Arts Centre in February and visit Birmingham Hippodrome in October in 2025.

Currently in creation, Hidden will explore how, in an increasingly divided world, light can come out of darkness in times of crisis.

Building on the successes of previous productions, including 2021’s Nobody, which has toured to more than 35 venues since its premiere in 2021, Hidden further develops the company’s unique dance-circus language, absorbing elements from other physical forms and fusing them into a distinctive and visceral movement language.

An extraordinary shape-shifting set will integrate seamlessly with digital projections, instantly transforming the world on stage and creating a ‘living film'.

Finnan works collaboratively with the dancers to create the choreography and movement vocabulary as he develops each new work. He sets creative tasks and allocates time for the dancers to ‘play’ on the set in order to explore the possibilities that this offers in terms of being an ‘apparatus’ for the movement to take place on.

Hidden is co-commissioned by FABRIC, Birmingham Hippodrome and Warwick Arts Centre. Created with support from the John Ellerman Foundation and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK.

Motionhouse: Hidden shows at Warwick Arts Centre from Thursday 6 - Sunday 9 February and Birmingham Hippodrome on Friday 10 & Saturday 11 October.