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Play On!
- World Premiere.
and
Saturday Night Divas.
Touring with Play On. Saturday Night Divas was premiered on 9 May 2003.
Play On!
- World Premiere.
Concept & Main Choreographer - Kally Lloyd-Jones.
Choreographer for Viva La Diva section - Dawn Hartley
Lighting Designer - Colin Wilson.
Designer Consultant - Emma Tennant.
Dancers - here .
Saturday Night Divas.
Concept & Choreographer - Kally Lloyd-Jones.
Original Lighting Designer - Paul Ancell.
Designer Consultant and dolls - Emma Tennant.
Aerial Consultant - Jonothan Campbell.
Company - Company Chordelia.
Dancers - here .
Tour Dates and Times - here
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Seen to review at Brunton Theatre Musselburgh on 13 May 2004.
Run Time - 2hours including 15 mins interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good .
Entertains but doesn't fully grab.
Both peices from Company Chordelia, where all but one section are choreographed
by Kally Lloyd-Jones do entertain and develop narratives but not quite
enough to fully grab an a non-dance audience.
Play On!
- World Premiere.
With most of troupe asleep on the floor the Diva arrives in Viva Diva.
Preoccupied with her figure and her face she dreamily tries out fragments
of ballet to Saint-Saens The Dying Swan and practises recieving huge bouquets.
This is one of the main moments in Play On!. The Diva allows its choreographer
and dancer Dawn Hartley to explore her consumate ability to connect with
an audience.
Then in a sequence of peices where the troupe wake up relucantly, Wake
Up Call and Pitching In, the troupe's personalities are developed.
Then they find themselves on tour rehearsing in a room you couldn't fling
a feline in but the Diva and company manage to move themselves in No
Room To Swing A Pas De Chat. A well synchronised peice where dancers'
jumps explode like individual fireworks going off. Next In Love is
Blind, Kally Lloyd-Jones and Julian Adkins, where an experienced dancer/lover
gradually enables a fear bound woman to find her way to self confidence
and acceptance. Julian Adkins' intrepretation gives us a fascinating mix
of entrancer and caring companion. The next and very contrasting piece
is Boing with Rodolfo Rivas Franco using his talent for his infinately
flexible and multi-jointed limbs. The first half is all wrapped up with
Grand Performance a three act ballet in as many minutes.
The comedy is frequently conveyed in Play On!, and the dance sequences
are interestingly varied. But at some points the decision to part mime,
in an old-fashioned manner, what they want to convey is hard to follow.
One wants to shout out to them," It's okay to-day you can speak in
dance, or if you want to be silent take some tips from some physical actors.
Saturday
Night Divas.
This peice is reprised here after its first outing in 2003. After seeing
Julian Adkins in the first half I hoped that they would incorporate him
into some of the pieces but he was not used. Instead they had reworked
A Man's World, so it no longer contained acute and comic observations
about women and how they behave when men are not around. Adkin's absence
and the reworked A Man's World are both disappointments and the
latter doesn't set up the audience as well for the subsequent sections.
In the wider, deeper auditorium of the Brunton the effect of Saturday
Night Divas was muted suggesting that the direction of it keeps too
much of its energy and penache from shooting out to the audience except
in smaller more intimate venues.
It's a double bill from a company who could benefit from further developing
their relationship with audiences.
© Thelma Good 13 May 2004. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Review
of premiere of Saturday Night Divas, performed in 2003 Tour with another
piece.
For Play On!
Dancers - Kally Lloyd-Jones, Caroline Sinclair, Jennifer Paterson,
Dawn Hartley, Julian Adkins & Rodolfo Rivas Franco.
For Saturday Night Divas.
Dancers - Kally Lloyd-Jones, Emma Mcgurn, Jennifer Paterson, Dawn
Hartley & Rodolfo Rivas Franco.
Details of Compnay Chordelia's 2004 Tour of
Play On ! and Saturday Night Divas.
Tour begins.
30 & 1 May at 7:30pm Paisley Arts Centre 0141 887 1010..
4 May at 8pm Glasgow Tron Theatre 0141 552 4267..
13 May at 7:30pm Musselburgh Brunton Theatre 0131 665 2240.
20 May at 8pm Kendal Bewery Arts Centre 01539 725133.
22 May at 8pm St Andrews Byre Theatre 01334 475000.
Tour ends
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