SHOSHINZ and Cherry Typhoon

Coffee for One ***½
Only Meagan O’Shea onstage for this simple but charming mix of dance and… spoken word? Her wit shines through when she asks someone to time her so she’ll dance for 4 minutes, telling us that the average adult attention span is 3 minutes and she’s interested in seeing what happens when we stretch those limits a bit. Funny, environmentally conscious, and only slightly awkward, O’Shea is the kind of Fringe performer you want to befriend after the show. And she probably wouldn’t mind. She deserves a bigger audience than she had on the day I got to see her show, so head on over to Venue 7 and ask the woman out on a date already!
17 TUE 20:00
18 WED 18:45
21 SAT 16:15
22 SUN 18:00

Traces ***½
I don’t know what it is with dancers and chanting or humming, but it needs to stop. It’s just awkward. Luckily, when you get through those first few minutes, Zuzana Burianova and Carmen Ruiz offer some strong partner dancing at Venue 8 with a few interesting twists, like two pairs of hands moving behind one back or tango being performed while the dancers avoid touching each other. The soundtrack is unfortunately a bit amateurish, but what matters here, the dancing, is decent stuff.
17 TUE 18:30
19 THU 17:30 2/1
20 FRI 22:30
21 SAT 24:00
22 SUN 18:00

SHOSHINZ and Cherry Typhoon ***½
When SHOSHINZ started gesticulating onstage, it seemed like we were supposed to understand what was going on, though I certainly wasn’t. But then it didn’t matter because the insanity took over. Singing “Que Sera Sera” while tap dancing, performing fast-paced voice renditions of instrumental tracks, laughing without a sound, performing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in cries and screams, it’s all in a day’s work for SHOSHINZ! So don’t try to understand, just go crazy at Venue 8.
17 TUE 21:30
18 WED 19:45
20 FRI 24:00
21 SAT 20:30