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Follow The Movement
Reviews of Stuntman, Bird, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Beyond Boundaries and After All
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Bird
[Andrew Perry; Courtesy of Amina Khayam Dance]
The bard joins the Carnival Against Fascism, which summer fun sends him down Memory Lane
FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
DROP-DEAD gorgeous physical theatre performers in the two-hander Stuntman ★★★★ (given by Superfan at Summerhall Tech Cube) spin personal accounts of permanent scarring, fatal kickings, hospital death and fantasy funerals.
They leap such scary emotional chasms to delineate their choice to inhabit a shouty body-double world that eschews real injury and believable acting.
The balaclava slips when one performer whispers that he’d rather have been a dancer. Instead (and deliciously) he’s in this show.
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