Dance REVIEW: Lullaby - ★★★★★

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Internationally acclaimed choreographer Jasmin Vardimon returns and expands the world of 'Lullaby' with a groundbreaking new production.

An experience both intimate and universal

More than twenty years ago, multi-award-winning and internationally renowned choreographer Jasmin Vardimon MBE’s original masterpiece Lullaby took the theatre world by storm and won widespread critical acclaim.

Now, she reimagines and expands her landmark show for today’s audiences.

With her signature blend of striking imagery, visceral movement, wit, and raw honesty, Vardimon transforms the hospital ward into a playground of emotion – a vivid world of human connection, vulnerability, resilience, and hope.

Founded in 1998, and a leading force in British dance theatre for over twenty five years, the Jasmin Vardimon Company has built a reputation for challenging and visually arresting dance productions infused with social and political commentary. With the opening of JV H.O.M.E, a new building located in Ashford, Kent and dedicated to the company’s research, creation and multi-disciplinary creative learning programme, Artistic Director Jasmin Vardimon continues to add to an extensive body of critically acclaimed, artistically respected work both for her own Company and for some of the world’s leading arts institutions that she has collaborated with across the world.

Where?

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh - Part of UK Tour

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Archie (Age 13) - ★★★★★

"This was a really good dance/physical theatre show. It is set inside a hospital and it’s a sort of anthology with loads of tiny stories all told through dance and sparse dialogue. For example there was a really funny waiting room scene with scene and there was a lecture about fighting disease with two performers stage fighting.

I really enjoyed the dance work was incredible. It was very intricate and well choreographed. The examples of the sequences, e.g. props and set were small but well used there was occasional use of screens and projection to convey x-rays and the clinical setting. It was funny as well as really sad at times.

In terms of a deeper message, it made me realise that all kind of people go to a hospital and this was a key part of the storytelling.

Overall I thought this was an incredible piece. The cast worked so hard and looked delighted at the end. Most of the audience were on their feet too. Would definitely recommend.."