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Echoes
- Tour & World Premiere .
Choreographer - A collaboration between Alan Greig and the Xfactor
dancers.
Costume and Set Designer - Miranda Melville.
Lighting Designer - Mark Parry.
Soundscore - Tom Murray (additional music - Quee McArthur, Bernard
Herrmann and Gergory Whitehead).
Poetry - Derek McCluckie.
Company - Xfactor Dance Company .
Dancers - here .
Tour Dates and Times - here
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Seen to review at Traverse Theatre Edinburgh on 26 February 2003.
Run Time - 50 mins no Interval .
Reviewer - Thelma Good .
Satisfying mixter-maxter*.
Echoes - Xfactor Dance Company.
Stuart Bowden, David Hughes,
and Peter Russell.
© Paul Watt 2004.
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Xfactor have expanded their company and their Artistic Director Alan
Grieg has taken the opportunity with his larger company of dancers to
weave quite a number of elements of its past creations into a 50 minute
programme. The result contains some finely executed pieces only a few
fail to communicate anything, just being well choreographed movements
with no sense of why.
The frustration of those is exacerbated when there is a spoken text. Random
spoken names while dancers move singly under a single light or the reading
of a text about Hitler's last days or a women consumed by jealousy fail
to convey anything extra to the pieces. But these are in the minority,
mainly the pieces communicate. The argument between the couple when betrayal
has come to call is one of those highlights, capturing that sexy arousal
that happens we you have a long and partly violent row. The torturing
nuns and their female victim is both subversive and hilarious, culminating
in their loosing all sense of how to cross themselves.
Miranda Melville's costumes bring colour and atmosphere to the pieces
- the green dress with its reptilian skirt evoking that seething monster
emotion, the nuns' wimples and dun coloured habits adding to their increasingly
decedent movements . Having around ten pieces in a programme with everything
from solos to all six on the floor makes for an audience that is easily
re-engaged if their attention wanders during one. Xfactor in this larger
man - and woman - festation gives a largely satisfying mixter-maxter*
of physically demanding movements to a soundscore that keeps your interest
moving.
© Thelma Good 26 February 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
*mixter-maxter - Scots word for a mix, suggests a bit of uneveness
in the mix.
Dancers: Stuart Bowden, Zoe Brown, David Hughes,
Katryn Jackson, Rachel McDermont and Peter Russell.
Tour Details of Xfactor's Echoes in 2004 .
Tour begins
14 Feb at 7pm Aberdeen The Lemon Tree 01224 642230.
17 Feb at 7pm Free extracts Edinburgh Royal Museum Chambers.
20 Feb at 7:15pm Stirling Tollbooth 01786 274000.
17 Feb at 2:15 & 4:15pm pm Free extracts Edinburgh Royal Museum Chambers.
25 & 26 Feb at 8pm Edinburgh Traverse Theatre 0131 228 1404.
28 Feb at 8pm Ullapool MacPhail Theatre 01854 613336.
3 March at 8pm Falkirk Town Hall 01324 506850.
6 March at 7:30pm Peebles Eastgate Arts Centre 01721 722991.
9 March at 8pm Inverness Eden Court 01463 234234.
11 March at 7:30pm Livingston Howden Park Centre 01506 433634.
13 March at 6pm - 9pm Free extracts Glasgow Princes Square.
19 March at 8pm Dundee The Space, Dundee College 01382 834934.
20 March 1-4pm. Free extracts Edinburgh Ocean Terminal, Leith.
21 March at 8pm Glasgow The Tron 0141 552 4267.
27 March at 7:30pm Musselburgh Brunton Theatre 0131 665 2240.
Tour ends.
The Xfactor Dance Company Productions 1990 to 2004 with links to two
more EdinburghGuide reviews.
1990: Re-entry.
1991: Night Gallery / Bizarro.
1992: Build up / Standing Room Only.
1993: Suddenly.
1995: Red.
1996: Dead.
1997: SeXual.
1998: LoveBites.
1999: Threesome.
2000: Unspoken.
2001: Deception.
2002: The
Dearly Departed.
2003: In
Your Dreams.
2004: Echoes.
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