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Grupo Corpo--Edinburgh International Festival 2010

Grupo Corpo--Edinburgh International Festival 2010

Flair, fire and flamboyance.

Grupo Corpo's high-octane ensemble of dancers combines the sensual elements of Brazilian dance with cutting-edge contemporary dance. A real feast of fast and fabulous rhythm and movement. Read more …

Parabelo

Carnival comes to the Festival in a performance of seductive physicality. The Grupo Corpo dancers stamp their feet and sway their hips with snake-like fluidity in this ravishing creation straight off the white sandy beaches of Rio.

Onqotô

A soundtrack of driving Latin funk provides the musical backdrop for an eccentric debate over the paternity of the universe. It's a curious competition between the idea of a great primordial explosion and a witty notion that the cosmos was conceived as a weird form of rivalry between Rio's two main football teams.

More information on this production is available at www.eif.co.uk.

The critical consensus

It's in the way they move.

****(*)Mary Brennan, The Herald

Grupo Corpo's unashamed mission seems to be to tempt the rhythm of life out of us all.

****(*)Alice Bain, The Guardian

It's not entirely clear what is going on, but it is definitely hugely enjoyable.

***(*)(*)Sarah Crompton, The Telegraph

It is the exuberance of perderneiras's choreography...which has the crowd roaring with approval.

*****Kelly Apter, The Scotsman

Athletic as these dancers are, it sounds painful.

***(*)(*)Zoe Anderson, The Independent

The rapturous applause of the rest of the audience certainly puts my harsh opinions in the minority.

***(*)(*)Amanda Grimm, The Skinny

Where and when?

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh from Friday August 20, 2010, until Monday August 23, 2010. 8.00pm. More info: http://www.edtheatres.com/festival

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