Skip to review

Edinburgh Fringe

2021

/

Dance

#Edinburgh Fringe

Dance

Grin

Grin

Grin

5/5

By Fringebiscuit

Crumpled paper card with big black capitals reading We Read Just the Title and We're Giving 5/5, No Notes, and a red balloon held in a hand

The Twittique / TL;DR

Grin. Exploiting costumes, light & camerawork, @melebroomes creates the illusion of a cityscape morphing into fluid bodies. A pulsing score evolves into emotive vocals, as African & Caribbean dance elements are explored & reworked into a captivating celebration of black unity.

Grin is among our all-time #edfringe faves 😍🙌🏾 Where to start? Maybe with @melebroomes' mesmerising choreography, which so eloquently conveys a gamut of experiences: joy and despair, generosity and defiance, rage and ecstasy. 'Grin' refers to the masks one wears in the face of oppression; performers @goddess_divine_tasinda and @kemonolriott embody this by adopting and discarding various costumes, dance styles and emotions, whilst accompanied by a stark, rhythmic score. It's a beautifully layered piece, developed through research into building networks of solidarity in communities of colour — and well worth watching more than once!

Filed from

Edinburgh Fringe

with a Biscuit rating of

5/5

Instagram

Threads

Newsletter

Get the BIZcuit

Get the BIZcuit

Get the BIZcuit

A sharp little digest of reviews, trends, soundbites, and theatre gossip worth chewing on.

More from the archive

More from the archive