Just keep on dancing

It's International Dance Festival Birmingham at the moment and we've already seen two brilliant shows.

Last Wednesday we saw Alias perform 'Sideways Rain' - which was so simple and yet so brilliant. The company enter the stage from the left, traverse it in a variety of repetitive movements, and then exit on the right - over and over again. It was mesmerising.


Then on Saturday we saw Kidd Pivot perform 'Tempest Replica' based on Shakespeare's The Tempest - Caliban was fantastic. The show blended film, lighting, shadow-work and dance and was really beautiful.

We see a lot of dance in Birmingham but these two shows were, in many ways, better than anything I've ever seen.

As usual, I've been inspired to dance myself. I've been going to a streetdance class at the gym, which is great fun and I'm wondering now about doing something more serious... 

... but perhaps I could start by knitting some legwarmers.