Over four episodes, her city’s seemingly intractable undercurrent of conflict manifests through meditative stillness and shocking power.

Influenced by club culture and the European avant-garde, Doherty’s dancers explode institutional discipline with intuitive swagger. Set in a gleaming cage—with driving music by DJ David Holmes (Killing Eve, Ocean’s Eleven, Hunger)—she takes us behind the mask of machismo, into the inner-lives of Belfast’s hard men and strong women. Street life is spiked with religious ritual. An Adidas-clad army of teenage girls throw down warrior hip-hop. A father and son collide inside a ‘Meat Kaleidoscope’. A man is held, like a helium balloon, in white-hot limbo. Vulnerable yet cock-sure solos from Doherty bend within the brawling.