NO, someone didn’t just turn the heating up at ITV’s Dancing On Ice studios.

This is the cast of Flow attempting to portray humble H2O’s transformative properties amid an ever-changing waterscape.

The show, at Notting Hill’s Print Room, uses a mixture of dance, music and design to follow water’s journey from ice to steam.

The performance takes its inspiration from the mundane, like boiling a kettle, to the extreme, such as raging storms in Africa’s Congo.

Choreographer Hubert Essakow, who trained in ballet before joining the world of contemporary dance, said he hoped it would help audiences realise what a precious commodity water is.

“Water’s everywhere and we often take it for granted because it’s such a basic part of our survival,” he said.

“It’s easy to forget that every year millions of people across the world die because they don’t have access to clean drinking water.

“We’re not setting out to educate people, but hopefully this show will help audiences realise water’s preciousness and beauty.”

Flow explores H2O through its different states – solid, liquid and gas.

The dancers’ movements are influenced by water’s fluidity, and the rigidity of ice, as well as our daily interactions with the stuff, from making a brew to taking a shower.

“The dancers travel through water’s three states and, although there is no straight narrative, it’s about that journey, which could be a metaphor for life, the end of a relationship, or so much else,” said Essakow.

Water makes up at least 60 per cent of the human body but, according to the charity Wateraid, 4,000 children die every day due to poor sanitation or drinking dirty water.

In the form of floods, storms and tidal waves, meanwhile, it claims many thousands more victims each year. Essakow said it was fascinating to explore the contradictory nature of water, which gives life and takes it away.

“Water has a yin and yang quality to it. On one hand we need it to survive and on the other it can suddenly become such a destructive force,” he says.

“We wanted to capture water’s wild and unpredictable nature. Hopefully, by using real water, we will create what is quite a volatile experience for the audience and help them feel close to nature.”

For anyone worried about getting too close to nature, however, Essakow is quick to point out ther is no need to bring waterproofs.

Flow is at the Print Room, in Notting Hill, from February 4-23.