Rave Reviews from the Fringe
"...there is a real urgency to both the music and movement...the dancers fill the work with high leg extensions and energetic leaps. Her style has a real sense of flow which is beguiling to watch, and her dancers' technical ability and musical awareness makes this triple bill one of the better examples of pure dance at this year's Fringe." —The Scotsman, August 12, 2006
"...there is a strong, unifying brand that flows through all of the pieces. Fain's movement is strongly influenced by the music, having an abstract, emotional and melancholic quality, unencumbered by narrative...The complex movement dynamics evolve and change, alternating between joy and isolation....the mature professionalism, fluid movement and poetic musicality of an excellent little company which stands neatly at the apex of contemporary and classical dance." Ballet.co.uk .magazine, August 2006.
"I was fascinated by Fain's approach to the score (which was Ligeti's Piano Concerto), the way she can at times follow the complex rhythmical patterning, the violent explosions of sound which boom out of the quiet pianissimi, ...we see a whole series of pas de deux that range from the intimate and sensual (the use of the collapse/catch motif) to the violent and brutal." Ballet.co.uk .magazine, August 2006.
"In Liss Fain Dance at the Southside Theater, Edinburgh dance fans have a rare chance to see a professional modern dance company with superb dancers and quality production design on a spacious stage. Fain has gathered together a group of dancers with an impeccable grounding in classical and modern dance...there was a power intensity in the dancing and a complete devotion to every move. This was definitely a fine evening and a wonderful way to start the Fringe. Fain's choreography was always engrossing and dynamic, and her dancers exceptional." Critical Dance, August 2006.
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