“The Poets” had it’s final “entertaining” (the Georgia Straight – see review except below) performance last night, but the Dancing on the Edge festival continues to Saturday, July 15. Go check out the shows! For tickets and more information on the festival see:
Janet Smith of the Georgia Straight wrote:
“Veteran local dancer and choreographer Cori Caulfield unfurls three pieces called The Poets, a nod to a trio of hit songs: David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance”, the Tragically Hip’s “Grace, Too”, and Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne”. Hailley Caulfield Postle displays her mad tap skills, with attitude to burn, in the opening number. She is helped by a cool remixed arrangement by composer Mark Taylor that turns Bowie’s foray into new-wave-pop-swing into something much more eerie and resonant. At the end, her sibling Cori channels one of Cohen’s best-loved songs into a sensual, fluid solo of longing. With her usual emotional depth, the dancer paints a portrait of a sad woman, maybe “half-crazy”, as the lyrics tell us, an ottoman and Persian carpet evoking the gypsy cabin the real muse is supposed to have lived in. In between, Caulfield’s dance students, sporting shiny plastic yellow pants, bring the Hip hit to life; the piece plays cleverly with the song’s building rhythms…”
Congratulations to all the performers!