My spine is a fret board, I feel electricity in my hair. The bass just hit me and the drums turn the tips of my fingers into claws. We’re sandwiched between each other and now they’re playing my favourite song, you know the one from the debut. You’re twirling, I don’t know why. You lookContinue reading “That Night”
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Archive Dance Review : GOD/A Beautiful Hell
GOD (Grumpy Old Dancers) / A Beautiful Hell @ Dance Base ★★★★ Review by Lorna Irvine | 08 Aug 2012 ”Oh, hello, boys and girls… would you like to hear a story?” Thus begins the loveably eccentric pairing that is Alan Greig and Andy Howitt, but there ain’t nothing fairytale like about GOD – indeed,Continue reading “Archive Dance Review : GOD/A Beautiful Hell”
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Archive Review : Sylvie Guillem- Life In Progress
Exeunt exeunt Reviews • EdinburghPublished 14 August 2015 Sylvie Guillem – Life in Progress Festival Theatre ⋄ 8th – 10th August 2015 A final bow. Lorna Irvine The front cover of the festival programme shows a photograph of a little girl staring out sweetly, squinting towards the camera on an idyllic summer’s day- totally relaxed and in theContinue reading “Archive Review : Sylvie Guillem- Life In Progress”
One From Exeunt Archive: Jasmin Vardimon Pinocchio
REVIEWS • DANCE • REVIEWSPublished 12 May 2017 Review: Pinocchio at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh MAY 2 A highly original, thoroughly rollicking ninety minutes: Lorna Irvine enjoys Jasmin Vardimon’s multi-faceted dance adaptation of this classic children’s story. LORNA IRVINE Pinocchio, Jasmin Vardimon Company. Photo: Tristram Kenton. Assassins? Beyonce? A brutal subtext about exploitation? It must be choreographer Jasmin Vardimon’sContinue reading “One From Exeunt Archive: Jasmin Vardimon Pinocchio”
Lost In Music: The Fall- Edinburgh Man
It’s that time of the year, when the Edinburgh Festivals engulf the whole city like a tidal wave of culture, so this seems like the ideal anthem. As I’ve heard over the years, Mark E Smith was a fan of the gorgeous architecture, but mostly the drinking establishments, of the fair city. I know aContinue reading “Lost In Music: The Fall- Edinburgh Man”
Dance Preview: Beautiful Chaos 2.0
Pirita Tuisku and Thabo Mokolobate ‘s collaboration Beautiful Chaos 2.0 explores identity , friendship, culture and the ties that bind in this new collaboration at Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh. Using contemporary dance, film and spoken word, the two explore belonging at a time when it’s never felt more necessary to celebrate humanity and that whichContinue reading “Dance Preview: Beautiful Chaos 2.0”
Hit The North 