DANCE

My criticism with dance so far at this year’s Fringe has been that the dance acts have been performing individually, without any linkage or story being told. I commend A World Without Words for their ability to do this. We follow a couple falling out of love with each other, and the anger that comes with that.

The story is told all through dance, completely ‘Without Words’, as it is a very simple yet effective storyline that the cast is acting out through dancing to modern classics; for instance The Kinks and Damien Rice.

I felt that many of the slow acts were performed very well; especially when the female lead was expressing her anger through movement. It is always great to see true emotion in dance, although what I felt let the show down was the lack of synchrony between the backing dancers when there were many performers on stage. They did not seem to be performing in harmony, as one. It was almost as if I was watching many different performances. I think that this is a shame as the concept for this is excellent.

With a little more work, and the cast becoming much tighter in their movement together, I feel this could be excellent; but there is a lot more work needed before this dance show can reach that level.