Taiwan Season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: The Back of Beyond
Internal, spiritual, sensual; a beautiful and mesmeric work of light and dark, or movement and stillness
Month: August 2021
Taiwan Season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Touchdown by Incandescence Dance
A fascinating, absorbing 30-minute science meets art solo
A magical setting for an Eastern fantasy: B.DANCE in Alice
The choreography is innovative and exciting and has a sensitive partner in the music conjured up by Rockid Lee
Taiwan Season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Fighters by Les Petites Choses Production
A handsome film towards the ‘screendance’ end of the spectrum in which past meets present, traditional meets modern
Tubular Bells Live with Circa
Yaron Lifschitz’s floor work choreography, full of rolls and tumbling, is pleasing and empathises with the flow of the music
Taiwan Season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Tjimur Dance Theatre
A largely light-hearted and quirky look at contemporary Paiwan life, although it does have its deeper, more thoughtful moments
Singin’ in the Rain: a marvellous evening of infectious optimism
“I defy anyone to come out of the theatre not smiling and feeling full of joy; and probably humming the glorious music too”
A journey of discovery with Luca Silvestrini and Protein’s En Route
Locations were transformed as the dance snaked from Woolwich Common to the river, inventively realising the promise held in the title
Roni Rotem and Janan Laubscher’s 9 Muses
Rotem and Laubscher underline the necessity of the arts, most of all, the strong need to dance as a liberating and healing response
A splash of colour and joy, a hint of darkness: Goyo Montero’s Blitirí
A dance that doesn’t take itself too seriously, for much of the time at least. But, like the real world, darker things lurk beneath