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Six Left Feet
Six Left Feet occupies a space somewhere between modern dance and cabaret; sketches and monlogues alternate with quicksteps and more experimental, shoe-based dances; familiar recitals give way to original pieces; and throughout the pace is kept high, no time to get bored, because another dance will be along in a minute. The action is character based, with characters drawn from somewhere between eighties nostalgia and Buffy; three men, three women, two sexy couples, two losers. Setting up and demolishing love triangles, playing jealous games, flirting, taunting and jockeying for social position, the characters race through the performance, stropping and partner swopping to a soundtrack of advice on etiquette, dancing, and love from the likes of Emily Post, Peter Stringfellow, Flanders and Swann and Ronan Keating (as performed by the cast). Via shoe-swopping, pole-dancing, tango, cheerleading, and physical and social violence, the cast achieve their resolution; the two sexy couples settle their differences, the losers fetch up together. They sing a song, bow, the end. The moral? Freaks should stick together; or perhaps that you will probably end up with someone whose shoes are about as expensive as yours. All in all, a sharp half-hour of shouting, shuffling, and shoe fetishism. Jeremy Dennis. 12/02/02 |