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ATTRAPE MOI Family-friendly circus skills, magnifi cent trampolining and impressive aerial dance from Quebec
Flip Fabrique is an impressive Quebecois circus troupe, artfully l inging themselves and one another across the stage in an adrenalin- injected hour of acrobatics and dance. Building human towers, dancing in sleeping
bags and incorporating medicine balls, beatboxing, human sound effects, diabolos, hula hoops and glow-in-the-dark yoyos into their tight choreography, they propel one high energy routine into the next, accompanied by a thumping soundtrack, and the occasional
calmer interlude of Sufjan Stevens or a solo cello. Although some of the cartoony, clownish
scenes might get a little too hyper and slapstick for some (the scenario is loosely based around a summer camping trip, where friends have a sleepover by a lake), the show is designed to be family friendly, building up to a staggering i nale on a giant trampoline, where the dancers hurl themselves expertly onto scaffolding, synchronising their l ying limbs as
they catapult through gaps in a wall.
An aerial dance routine is also breathtaking, as a bare-torsoed dancer wraps himself up and down a rope, effortlessly hanging a female dancer around his neck at one point, a bit like a perfectly elegant and precision-controlled throwback to the Diet Coke break. Magnii cent moments of very expert human showing off. (Claire Sawers) ■ Assembly Hall, 623 3030, until 29 Aug (not 15, 22), 6pm, £15–£16 (£13–£14). ●●●●●
11–18 Aug 2016 THE LIST FESTIVAL 61