Dance Animal Freaks of Nature - FRINGE XX

Dance Animal - Freaks of Nature @ Studio Just For Laughs Venue #5. The world's first ever comedy-dance tribe, Dance Animal (J.F.L. Fringe 2009 winner) returns to the Fringe this season with some of the original animals and a few new ones too. Unsure that choreographer Robin Henderson could top last year's super success tales, which I also saw again at the Wild Side in January @ Centaur, I wasn't expecting much different this time around. However, not only does the program build with each number during the run of the show but it creshendos actually surpassing last year's 'funanimal' success. The production takes the pretension out of the world of dance and makes it accessible and very entertaining for a general audience. A show that is appealing for all but is listed as 16+ probably due to the venue's bar. I'd like to "hear" more from the animals, -this is the biggest issue "the sound". The dialogue is too low (Projection!) and the music is too loud! (Both are unbalanced competing against the background noise of crowd and the space). Next time around however, I'm sure that there will be a next time, I'd like to see some more 'diversity' in the casting of both body and ethnic types. 4 Cents. Dee Arr

Dance Animal presents: Freaks of Nature @ JFL Venue #5. Are they overdoing the humping? Or just appealing to the animal instincts that might lie in everyone in the audience? Judging by the energy flow in the room after their surprise finalé, I say they got the animal out without a doubt! 5 cents. RaTaTa