Sitting down with Condors frontman Ryohei Kondo, he says something a bit surprising: “’17’s Map’ is a work in progress.”

This sounds startling at first as we're just three weeks from the curtain rising on the all-male dance troupe's newest production, which shares its name with a 1983 song by Yutaka Ozaki called "Jyunana-sai no Chizu" ("Seventeen-year-old's Map").

Kondo says there's no reason to worry; this is how the troupe works.