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Transitions in Dance

IMPRESSION by MEREL ZUIDERDUIN

Transitions Dance Company from Londen, winner of last year’s ITs Guest award, bring two pieces to the festival this year. Expectations are high. Their first piece, The Other/s is a showy comical routine. Left to write, is a more serious contemporary piece.

The Other/s
“Laura has the feeling that three people in the room are very special.” A young man, looking like a seventies show host, says. Three of the other dancers raise their arm. Apparently they are special. One of them is Jesse, an Italian looking boy who tells us he has got shoes that walk for him. He takes the most shiny and glittery pair from the line of shoes at the front of the stage and puts them on. He makes it look as if he has no control over his movements what so ever. “Look! It’s not me, it’s the shoes!”

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