Taiwan Season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Touchdown by Incandescence Dance
A fascinating, absorbing 30-minute science meets art solo
A fascinating, absorbing 30-minute science meets art solo
The choreography is innovative and exciting and has a sensitive partner in the music conjured up by Rockid Lee
A handsome film towards the ‘screendance’ end of the spectrum in which past meets present, traditional meets modern
Yaron Lifschitz’s floor work choreography, full of rolls and tumbling, is pleasing and empathises with the flow of the music
A largely light-hearted and quirky look at contemporary Paiwan life, although it does have its deeper, more thoughtful moments
“I defy anyone to come out of the theatre not smiling and feeling full of joy; and probably humming the glorious music too”
Locations were transformed as the dance snaked from Woolwich Common to the river, inventively realising the promise held in the title
Rotem and Laubscher underline the necessity of the arts, most of all, the strong need to dance as a liberating and healing response
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
EDGE had to cancel their live shows this year but filmmakers stepped in to deliver a different and exciting graduation programme
A very diverse and challenging programme including Frederick Ashton’s Les Rendezvous