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 As part of the latest edition of the London International Mime Festival, Olivier Award-winning dance theater innovators Peeping Tom return to the Barbican for the UK premiere of their new show, Triptych. Triptych is a fabulous, energetic and mysterious work, made up of three linked pieces, The Missing Door, The Lost Room and The Hidden Floor, all set on different parts of an ocean liner. Together they once again demonstrate Peeping Tom's extraordinary imaginative range and sheer physicality. One dancer will maneuver another as if that partner were made of rubber, twisted into extraordinary shapes, or left frozen, bent backwards onstage. Other associations involve a body, rigid as a mannequin, held high without even a shudder of movement. For brief moments, the bodies contort so strangely that they look like inhuman figures from some hellish painting by Hieronymus Bosch. Most compelling are the ensemble pieces that are impressive in their complexity and vitality. Stars: Maite Perro...