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The Voice of Things - Toilet Paper

The Voice of Things - Toilet Paper

(1 star)16 Aug 2007

The solo performer waters her toilet rolls, wears a toilet paper skirt and crown, drapes toilet paper across the stage and generally loses herself, and the audience, in the slow and painful process. Are Underbelly trying to fill their rooms or just…

Traces

Traces

(3 stars)16 Aug 2007

The early pitches for poignancy are a put off, but when 7 Fingers keep to their incredible gymnastics, they are truly impressive. Like an old-fashioned circus, the audience ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ at the spectacular stunts and clap the death-defying feats. It…

Transformation

(3 stars)16 Aug 2007

Transformation is a compelling tale of one woman’s extraordinary life. An actor, dancer and environmental campaigner explains what she calls the transformation cycle, beginning in chaos and progressing full circle to order. Using her physicality and…

As the Mother of a Brown Boy

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

Just as society lets so many young black men fall through the net, As The Mother Of A Brown Boy also struggles to reach the dead boy it tries to reclaim from the ranks of statistics. As usual, Chickenshed are to be lauded for attending to a subject…

Cape Dance Company

Cape Dance Company

Kelly Apter

9 Aug 2007

Bringing a show to the Edinburgh Fringe is a financial challenge for most people – but when you live over 6000 miles away, it’s a Herculean effort. Cape Dance Company has visited the Fringe twice before, in 1996 and 1998, so a return visit is long…

Druthers

Druthers

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

Druthers’ Everyman in the attic is hoisted from his hermitage by an entertaining barrage of multimedia performance from Bristol’s Precarious Dance. The company take the opportunity to showcase their very talented wares, making especially beautiful use…

Maximum Crew

Hitlist - the best Festival dance

9 Aug 2007

With four programmes and a kids show to pick from, you’ll be spoilt for choice at Scotland’s National Centre for Dance. Contemporary, Indian, hip hop, dance theatre – it’s all here and more.

Incarnat

Incarnat

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

Each solo sequence in Incarnat is an incitation to empathy, relentlessly asking the onlooker to reach out. The shock tactics it uses in this endeavour make for difficult viewing at times, but its images create a devastatingly powerful piece of…

Maximum Crew

Maximum Crew

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

Korean breakdance has evolved away from the po-faced machismo that can pervade Western scenes, so while the dancers may still occasionally come across as cocky show-offs, they’re not afraid of self-parody or knowing camp. Over there the b-boy crews…

Natasha Gilmore

Natasha Gilmore

5 questions

9 Aug 2007

5 words sum up your dance piece, Madame Bazie? Comic, intimate, ridiculous, emotional, intricate. 4 shows you’re looking forward to seeing Everything at Assembly Aurora Nova and Dance Base; A performance I know absolutely nothing about; The…

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