Natural Behaviour from Thick & Tight at Dance City Newcastle September 29

Dance theatre company Thick & Tight tour their acclaimed show Natural Behaviour this autumn. A collection of performed portraits of human and non-human life forms and somewhere between a variety show and a biology essay that has sprung into life, Natural Behaviour is a queer look at what it means to be natural or unnatural, highlighting the essential role of diversity in all life.

Thick & Tight’s distinctive mixture of dance, satire, impersonation and poetry aims for the outrageous, the beautiful, the hilarious and the profound. 

Thick & Tight’s distinctive mixture of dance, satire, impersonation and poetry aims for the outrageous, the beautiful, the hilarious and the profound. The line-up includes two moths, a pantomime horse, the dust in Quentin Crisp’s room, some flies on the wall, a lamenting songbird, a blade of grass and a lesbian seagull.

Thick & Tight’s co-directors Daniel Hay-Gordon and El Perry are joined by a cast of remarkable dance artists: Annie Edwards (Candoco), Azara Meghie (Ray Young, Talawa) and Jahmarley Bachelor (Punchdrunk). Natural Behaviour is designed by Tim Spooner, Pam Tait, Darren Evans and Nao Nagai. In 2025, Natural Behaviour sold out a week at London’s Battersea Arts Centre and was unanimously well received by critics and audiences alike.

Following Thick & Tight’s tour of their show Tits & Teeth in 2024, which won an OFFIE Award and sold out performances at London International Mime Festival, the company are delighted to tour Natural Behaviour to towns and cities across the UK including Newcastle, Edinburgh, Bournemouth, Brighton, Nottingham, Liverpool and Falmouth.

For over a decade, Thick & Tight have presented work at major UK venues including Royal Opera House, Barbican and Sadler’s Wells as well as LGBTQI+ nights and renowned arts and community spaces such as Duckie, Moth Club and Posh Club. Daniel and El are continually working to open up restrictive and elitist ideas of ‘artistic excellence’ and to explore dance as a political art form with the power to entertain while challenging social stigma.

Natural Behaviour – Thick & Tight plays at Dance City Newcastle Tue 29 Sep 2026. Tickets are available here.