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| "Hesketh's performance attains some remarkable heights - about 12ft on average, though her superhuman bouncing is aided by the deployment of a bungee rope. Yet the technique is more than just a gimmick; there is stunning beauty in the way Hesketh levitates, robes flowing as if floating on an air current rather than suspended from above. As the founder of Wired Aerial Theatre, Hesketh has pioneered this form of bungee-assisted dance - the potential seems as long as a piece of elastic." |
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| In Monkey! Hesketh plays Tripitaka, a monk charged with an epic journey to the West to find sacred Buddhist scriptures. She travels with the mischievous Monkey, played by Jami Reid-Quarrell. Both performers are attached to ropes, and when they skim over land and water the effect is breath-taking, almost like a sequence from a quality cartoon. Hesketh hovers, twists and twirls and then rises four metres off the ground. She can skim over a lily pond. Nothing she does is cumbersome, everything is smooth and calm – the bungee rope can be seen but is unobtrusive. Hesketh is able to fly above most of the huge Quarry Theatre stage and do whatever she wants. Demons have to be scattered, of course, and the character of Tripitaka does this with some beautifully executed martial moves. How long will it be before we see bungee-assisted dance in a pantomime or a production of Peter Pan? Dancing Times |
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