The Man Next Door Dances begins with Peter Bingham's formative years growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. Then, as his life begins to be driven by a passion for and commitment to dance, the focus is on the art and on the all-consuming creative act.

Studying Bingham's work so closely and gaining access to the choreographic process from behind the scenes - through video records, archival material and interviews with the artistic team - has been a great adventure. The result is an investigation of the "why" and the "how" of making dance from Bingham's perspective: Why choose this particular movement? Why make this dance at all? How to begin and how to keep going?

This might seem a bit like peeking under the magician's cape, but there was never any fear the magic would be revealed and the work would lose its luster. The art of dance is such a strange and wonderful thing ... surely, that it exists in this world at all will always continue to amaze.

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