17th
Fringe Fringe Fringe
My post is late this morning.
Why you ask?
I have been fringing the candle at both ends.
Doing two shows in the fringe is amazing, exhausting and has limited my possibilities of going to see as many shows as i would really like to. But, what I have seen has been amazing.
Here are some words on two shows that I really really enjoyed!
Fiasco Danse choreographed by Amelie Levesque Demers.
I saw this company’s two minute bit at the Fringe For All. And they definitely hooked me. The show was a compilation of pieces taken from longer shows from this choreographer. The show had a great variety of tone and style and content. Ranging from sexy, troubled and serious to highly comedic. There is a duet with two male dancers wearing large fur hats. The duet is a series of casual statues they make by climbing on each other while sitting on the ground. They created such a playful dynamic, and looked like two young boys exploring their best friends, and yet also like young lovers unsure of themselves. I love watching dance when the story lines pour through the images at every second, every jump and every shift of weight.
There is also a group number that seemed to speak of the casual and somewhat rash way in which our generation approaches sex. Slightly messy(purposefully) and without much romance, this piece had the dancers wearing sweatpants but pulling them down to their ankles (looking like elastic bands around their feet). With their pulled down pants they would commence a series of duets and lifts with partners. It was funny, and very truthful, and still light hearted. It wasn’t damning us for being overt sexual beings it was merely exposing us with a certain sentiment of, “this is how it looks, he he.” he he.
I really recommend this show. As a improvisor it is so important to take in dance and physical theatre. Much of language is body language and Fiasco Danse has much to say!
The Further Adventures of Antoine Faval- by Chris Gibbs
Get your tickets now! Wow. T-hee and yes please. This was the most charming show I have seen since… since… sliced bread. Gibbs comes out at the top of the show for a little casual chat with the audience and within the first minute he already has us laughing and endeared. He is a one man wonder of comedy and seems to know just when to make us laugh, endear us further to him, or make fun our intellect for not getting a great joke, a great joke about Oscar Wilde.
THe show is about a gullible character who is the assistant to the questionable detective Antoine Faval. And Gibbs delivers it with packed with historical referance, meta-theatrical side notes, and with such comedic talent and timing it comes off as something being said for the first time.
I can not recommend this show enough, and if I had the room in my schedule I would be going back for secondsies for sure!
Yay! Fringe!
Also yay Improv!
Kirsten
