No plot? Sounds like a job for a choreographer. Handspring is working with the rising star of choreography, Ben Duke of Lost Dog dance company, to help bring expressive clarity to abstract narrative. “From Handspring there was a genuine rather than a token interest in the language of dance,” enthuses Duke. “The amount of work that goes into both is similar, but often puppetry is about how to make this thing have muscle and weight and sinew, whereas with dance you are dealing with a body that has all those things.”