Category: Reviews
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4 stars – Sweet magic A woman and two men dance in a suspended atmosphere. They find a hundred ways of swimming without water. They get close to the art of miming to tell their story of life and loss.
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4 stars – ʻBoundʼ to be critical A young woman, almost naked, hangs from the ceiling – the rope like lace draws diamonds around her chest and her leg.
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5 stars – Trans-power Iron wings with knives instead of feathers, and a long straight light-pink tale. This is the creature who moves on scene, this is the creature who fights for existing.
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4 stars – Sepia poetry Three weeks gone and the combatants gone returning over the nightmare ground we found the place again, and found the soldier sprawling in the sun
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Most people ignore who Käthe Petersen was – who she really was. Even her Wikipedia page is extremely synthetic, and not exhaustive at all. In Taboo, a fictional talk show where it is talked about ʻthings nobody wants to talk aboutʼ, we discover the darkest sides of this acclaimed personality.
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5 stars – Aerial blossoming If flying lanterns were floating flowers and floating flowers were humans, how would they dance? Inspired by a Taiwan’s Buddhist ceremony, this performance is a mesmerising encounter between ritual tradition and contemporary dance.
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4 stars – Skilled and ironic Dance that is power, in every sense. In From the Top, this is very clear: power is in the precise movements of the dancers, power is what is contended between the two of them, power is what the choreographer, ultimately, has a hold on.
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3 stars – Interesting experience Looping: Scotland Overdub brings audience participation to the next level. It is the dance of a community, between tradition and innovation. An impacting performance with a strong political message.
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Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 20th August 2019 4 stars – smart, catching, ironic Food, food, food! Food is the key. Everybody wants to have a perfect body, isn’t it? The protagonist of this one-woman show certainly does… no junk food, no coke and such drinks, the basis. (Spoiler alert: irony in use…
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Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 20th August 2019 5 stars – Dramatic intensity A young Miss Havisham: orphan, cultured, about to get married… Emily’s normal life is suspended; she disappears, and her story becomes the one she tells through social media. She talks to her followers still keeping on her wedding dress, which…
