With a gleaming white floor and a white backdrop, the clean stage feels like a space that is open to all ideas. A few percussion instruments sit on the side. Percussionist Claire Edwardes and dancer Richard Cilli walk quietly onto the performance space and place the instruments in carefully chosen spots. Lastly, they put two metronomes on the ground and stand behind them.

Richard Cilli and Claire Edwardes. All photographs © Heidrun Löhr

The metronomes begin clicking at slightly different tempi, gradually reaching a point where they synch with each other, then start to move out of synch again. Behind them, the performers move at a slightly different rhythm, moving hips, legs and arms in a contained, extended sequence. It’s an interesting but quite slow start to Recital, a new double act billed as “an unusual presentation of how movement sounds, and how sound moves.”

Recital, which is presented by FORM Dance Projects in association with Riverside Theatres in Parramatta, comes from a highly impressive team. The idea for the piece began with the two performers, internationally renowned percussionist Claire Edwardes, who is Artistic Director of Ensemble Offspring, and consummate contemporary dancer Richard Cilli,...