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- Nikki Spunde
The only consistent element is dissonance. Happiness is aggressive, sexuality is grotesque, pleasure is tainted and pain revelationary.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
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- Jane Canaway
Everything about Fat Swan - from the dance steps, through the characters, the one-liners and double entendres, to the essential parody of a certain block-buster movie - is in-your-face, colourful and, well, larger than life. After a sell-out season earlier this year at the Spiegeltent and the marketing blurb warning that the adults-only panto is camp, even crass, it's fair to say that the audience comes prepared.
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- Danu Poyner
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- Heather Bloom
Everything about Swan Lake is flawless - the tragic romance, the superb choreography and elegant prose represented through elongated limbs and stunning movement. Every aspect of the show is transporting, from the sets and background pieces that immerse the audience in their world, to the extravagant costumes that highlight the differences between air, land and water or avian and woman.
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- Bron Batten
Drought and Rain is a quiet meditation on memory. It explores the modern horror of warfare through traditional folktale form and echoes from the past that still linger in the present.
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- Vivienne Mah
The impossible is made probable, be it in adagio, sky-high swings or the staggering, climactic finale filled with effortless lifts, leaps and tumbles. With ten years of experience, wisdom and dedicated performers behind them, NICA has grown - and will certainly continue to grow in reputation and in interest alike.
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