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Solos and Duets
MATTHEW HAWKINS samples the work on offer in an economically trimmed-down Dancebase and puts movement into words
Mikolaj Karczewski in Stone-Face-Book; Sun Chung-Hsueh and Hsia Ling in Duo [Courtesy dancebase/Chao-Sheng Ho]

DANCE BASE is a purpose-built facility that runs year-round. Home to a vibrant array of activity, and formerly hosting a great crush of Edinburgh Festival Fringe events, the venue now vaults a chasm of post-Covid uncertainty with the specifics of its 2023 programme, as co-curated (for the first time) with the Assembly franchise. 

We are in something of an edit. 

I took a look at a sequence of four works, taking the form of duets and solos, in the single available performing space, other vast studios on the premises are tabled-up and serving as industry hubs. 

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