Friday: Catherine Hooper

A midsummer deluge puts no dampener on the opening of Cloud Dance Festival. Jacksons Lane hosts the emerging festival, celebrating contemporary dance in all its variety. From street styles to physical theatre, new, emerging and established companies are given the opportunity to showcase their current work.

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Sunday: Mollie McClelland

Cloud Dance Festival for following its stated goal, offered a wide variety of works, from very abstract dance based work, to comedic storytelling from a diverse set of emerging and established choreographers.

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Saturday: Mollie McClelland

Cloud Dance Festival serving as a platform for new and emergent dance works by choreographers in different stages of their careers, is an excellent opportunity for production and feedback. In viewing the programme, and in writing this review, I chose to look at the works as works in progress, and as such to acknowledge the programme notes as indications of the artistic project of the choreographer. Therefore reviews are based not only on the work as I saw it but also the intents of the project as articulated in the programme notes, and the successes of the work in relationship to its articulation.

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