The Phoenix Dance Company

Phoenix emerged in the 1980s as one of the most exciting contemporary groups in Britain, made up of five young black men who were introduced to dance while at school in one of the poorest parts of Leeds. Their extraordinary story is told in documentary film and in a work called The Forming of the Phoenix. The programme's finale is a performance of Edward Lynch's Nightlife at the Flamingo, which fuses jazz steps with Phoenix's own eclectic style.