A starting point, for Dyad, has been Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition to the South Pole, in 1909, the year that the Ballet Russes was formed.

I want to convey in this piece this sense of survival, this desperation – whether that will be about surfaces that are hard to climb, or about not being able to be on your own - the psychological nature of being in extreme situations. It should be an alien juxtaposition of memory and hallucination.

In sound, we’re building a really natural sound source through the music – you hear extreme wind or ice break, or the sound of silence, being inside your own head – these kind of sound pictures can be very evocative. We’re also going to have this element in the set - I’m interested in monolithic images that dwarf the body in some way, to give a sense of landscape’s impending doom. But for this to be balanced with the surreal – almost a fantasy strangeness.