Dance Base
Maiden | Mother | Whore
★★★☆☆ Creation
Maiden | Mother | Whore is a happening at DB1 at Assembly @ Dance Base. Theiyā Arts Dance Collective provides completed pieces of dance but this hour is as much about thought and process as it is about witnessing finished work.
Boys Don’t Dance
★★★★★ Breathtaking
Director/Choreographer Marc Brew’s breathtaking coming of age story Boy’s Don’t Dance at Assembly @ Dance Base is anti-venom for toxic masculinity, tracking the early life of a boy as he develops his sense of self alongside his love of dance.
These Mechanisms
★★★★☆ Joyous and inspiring
Choreographer Robbie Synge directs Edinburgh-based performer Christine Thynne in These Mechanisms at Dance Base, her first solo dance show at the age of 80. The pair, who have collaborated previously, present a poetic and energetic movement piece that defies gravity and preconceptions.
Fields (Extract)
★★★☆☆ Understated
Fields (Extract), presented by the In the Fields Project at Dance Base is an understated and stripped-back piece that quietly explores natural movement and stone forms.
What Ever Happened to Harmony Banks?
★★★★☆ Pitch-perfect
Dance theatre can be a powerful ‘show not tell’ medium for exploring states of mind, and Whatever Happened to Harmony Banks at Dance Base until Sunday 10 August does just that in a pitch-perfect portrait of the toxicity of celebrity culture.
PRIME at 10
★★★☆☆ Gleeful
Prime – the over-60s performance company from Scotland’s national centre for dance – share their infectious glee at ten years of celebrating older bodies in PRIME at 10, a show of two halves at Dance Base until Sunday 3 August.
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