After the Cause

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Company: sisu\rab

Genre: Dance

Venue: 8 The Rachel Brone Theatre

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There aren't a a lot of options for fans of dance at the Fringe this year Nova Dance co-founder Rachelle Bourget'sAfter the Causeis the only show listed in the "dance" category. Fortunately for fans of contemporary dance, it's a powerful piece.

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It begins with a deliberately slow start a woman sitting mostly still under a bare light bulb while a voiceover about bad life choices, depression and cocaine-addicted lab rats plays in the background. What follows, though, is a sometimes explosive and often unsettling physical exploration of being trapped and trying to escape.

Bourget is a skilled dancer sometimes fluid, sometimes violently spastic and while her show has some rough edges (some sequences, like one set to a pulsating strobe light, run too long), it is consistently evocative.

It's a piece that won't be to everyone's liking, but it packs a punch.- Joff Schmidt

Set to a bass-heavy soundtrack that's sometimes droning, sometimes screeching, sometimes pounding,After the Causeis also claustrophobic, moody and tense which I think is very much what Bourget is going for.

It's a piece that won't be to everyone's liking, but it packs a punch.