A gaggle of reviews form Edinburgh:
Bird's Eye View By Lyn Gardner for The Guardian
Russia's DO-Theatre, the company who brought us the legendary Hopeless Games, are back in town, and if this feather-light dance piece on the theme of flying, floating and crashing back down to land doesn't reach the heights (and lacks the originality) of that previous show, it is still a very playful piece of movement theatre.
It is delightful stuff. Technically flawless too.
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Two round-up pieces from the Festival Fringe:
Thinking out of the box Fringe Dance: Pandora 88 - St Stephens, until Aug 19
Bird’s Eye View - St Stephens, until Aug 25
Stairway Of Fire - Gateway Theatre, until Aug 12
The Tango Spell - C Venue, until Aug 24
Brhannala - Augustines, until Aug 24
By Ellie Carr for The sunday Herald
It is common to describe Fringe shows as taking place in a cupboard. Well, Pandora 88 by Germany’s Fabrik company actually does. And makes a merit out of it.
Shrinking the available stage-space of cavernous St Stephens Church to a lift-shaft-sized Perspex box, dancer-actors Wolfgang Hoffman and Sven Till take us on a 60-minute journey through the human mind – with only a few metres of space between them. Apparently inspired by Brian Keenan’s An Evil Cradling and Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, this is an involving, touching and funny study of incarceration, both physical and mental.
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Tap running hot and cold Fringe Fusion Dance: Camut Band’S Life Is Rhythm - St George’s West, until Aug 17
Revolution: Sex, Dance And Rock’N’Roll - Demarco @ Rox Art House, until Aug 25
By Ellie Carr for The Sunday Herald
They’ve been described as the Catalan Tap Dogs. Thankfully, the Camut Band are far less shiny and manufactured than that. Filed under music in the Fringe programme, but with far more glorious hoofing than half the acts masquerading under “dance”, this Barcelona-based tap/percussion troupe are longer in the tooth than many of their counterparts – and all the better for it.
With a glimmer in their eye that says “been there, done it, enjoyed it”, these gleeful, gurning-faced, twinkle-toed male performers let rip.
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The Tango Spell By Kelly Apter for The Scotsman
DANGLING cocaine and cash like a carrot to a donkey, the wealthy Master keeps his beautiful young lover Roxanne glued to his side. Addicted to both, Roxanne dances dutifully before him, emulating the fillies in his stable with delicate trots. Both feed off each other, until a handsome young suitor enters the frame, plunging them into a tragic love triangle.
A blend of tango, ballet and contemporary dance, Pasodos Dance Company’s Fringe debut is refreshingly innovative.
Actor Cathal Quinn’s brutish Master has us hooked from the start, setting the scene with a sneering monologue. The two lead dancers not only infuse Roxanne and her suitor with sexual chemistry, but demonstrate genuinely strong technique.
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