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Clown jewels
LYNNE WALSH relishes a sweetly anarchic hour of dance and acrobatics, underscored by a big theme 
DANCE ME: Jo Fong and George Orange in The Rest of Our Lives

The Rest of our Lives
Battersea Arts Centre

BATTERSEA Arts Centre now bills itself as “a home for the extraordinary,” and this effervescent, melancholy, skilful show is exactly the right stuff.

Self-identifying as an old dancer and an old clown, Jo Fong and George Orange create a sweetly anarchic hour or so, with dance, acrobatics, and the best playlist of dance songs outside a wedding in the Welsh Valleys.

Fong is as earnest as a new primary schoolteacher, and just as anxious, with Orange as her lugubrious and long-suffering foil.

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