The Watering Hole - A Shiny Oasis

 The Cultch hosts this musical-dance production by the 49th Parallel Dance Company out of Calgary was energetic, and full of colourful, sexy movement.  The performance is set in a tavern with all the usual suspects. A bar-maid, tender, group of party girls,a player, a couple, and of course...a lush. 

Through a series of dance skits set to an amazing soundtrack, we are taken through "a day in a life" at The Watering Hole. Love, lust, pain, brawls, and celebrations. All beautifully displayed with grace, and athletic precision. The plot is soft...on purpose I suspect. So this is all about the entanglement of dancing and musical drama. The dancers truly brought the soundtrack to life - or vice versa - I'm not sure...it was so well done. 

I would highly recommend this simple pleasure as an oasis from some of the intensely thought-provoking one-person plays that have shined at The Fringe so far.