This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
ED2011 4/5 Reviews ED2011 Dance & Physical Theatre Reviews
Swimming With My Mother (CoisCéim Dance Theatre)
By Alistair Quaile | Published on Tuesday 23 August 2011
With a tenderness that is only found in the relationship between mother and child, David and Madge Bolger produce a fusion of dance and physical theatre which explores familial relationships in the context of a shared passion. Supported by an overhead narrative, delivered primarily by Madge, which outlines how her love of swimming developed from a young age and was later passed on to her children, the duo perform with an ebb and flow that mirrors the rise and fall of the sea. As heart warming as it is poetic, it illustrates an evident bond of love achieved through metaphor and genuine affection in a performance that conjures up contemplative feelings of one’s own nostalgia.
Dance Base, 5 – 21 Aug (not 8, 15), times vary, £7.00, fpp177.
tw rating 4/5
[aq]