Leaps and Bounds

Charles Darwin played two games of backgammon every day. That tension between black and white, win and loss comes across in a new production from the Rambert Dance Company marking the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, Comedy of Change. As in the days of the Ballet Russes, an artist has taken on the role of production designer, in this case Algerian-French sculptor Kader Attia. Photographer Poppy de Villeneuve went behind the scenes for NOWNESS for an exclusive view of this creative collaboration, which we present today to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species.