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If You Go Down To
The Woods - (Canada)Tour & Scottish
Premiere.
Part of the 2004 Bank Of Scotland Children's International Theatre Festival
organised by Imaginate.
Choreographer - Helene Blackburn with the dancers.
Artistic Advisor - Lise Gionet.
Music - Niccolo Paganni and Antanas Rekasius.
Music Collage - Adrien Beaudoin.
Sound Collage - Tristan Bernier.
Costumes - Carole Courtois.
Lighting Designer - Jean-François Gélinas.
Dancers - Yves St-Pierre, Roxane Duchesene-Roy, Hanako Rachel Hoshimi-Caines,
Christophe Bruno Garcia and Sylvain Poirier.
Company - Cas Public Company
Website.
Seen to review on 31 May at Traverse Theatre Edinburgh.
Scottish Dates - At Traverse Theatre.
Family Perfomances 31 May at 7pm and 1 & 2 June
at 5:30pm.
Tours to Inverness Eden Court Theatre 01463 234234.
Family Perfomance - 26 May at 7pm.
Run Time - 50 mins.
Suggested Age - 6+ years.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Text helps to connect.
Five dancers with text, classical music laced with Abba's "Dancing
Queens", a floor strewn and restrewn with petals, lights and an absence
of light explore fear. All types of fears are confessed to by the dancers
who behave like children, teasing, pushing and shoving each other. The
extensive text also includes a growing number of signed words, which when
used by all at the same time become a choreographed chorus.
There are solos, whole company work and all combinations in between. Some
sequences convey more than others, most striking is the dancer who has
a fear of performing alone, the bird-girl who is flung between two of
the men and the boy escaping the spotlight who is discover trying to leg
it over the back wall.
Cas Public's first work for children fluctates between clear easily understood
sections and more complex movements whose reasons seem based on the desire
to find a flow of moves rather than express an internal, intergal journey
or state. There's just enough in this peice to make it an approachable
introduction to comtemporary dance, but if there had been no text they
would have struggled far more to connect.
© Thelma Good 31 May 2004. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
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