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Review: A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football (Jo Strømgren Kompani)

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World Stage in Toronto scores with a tribute to European football

I had some trouble not leaping from my seat and yelling “GOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!” as the dancers came out for their bows at the opening of A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football. I hate to revert to puns – actually, I love them – but I think that reaction would’ve been appropriate considering how much World Stage has scored  bringing Norway’s Jo Strømgren Kompani to Toronto.

The production, already in its 15th year of existence, takes everything about the game of football –the European kind we call soccer- and throws it together in a powerful, dynamic dance piece both impressive in stamina and theatrical in delivery. There’s also a fair share of humour and it all wraps up in a breezy 55 minutes.

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