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.".... bushy haired in cheek-baring white costumes above black ankle boots, the dancers slumped, shook hands, lifted limbs and sat on each other's laps................ put across with disarming energy.........." Donald Hutera, Dance Correspondent, Dance Europe Magazine. "There was a feeling of lightness as they effortlessly and dangerously leapt over and slid across in different formations testing their bodies to the limits.." Lorriane Aquilina, Critic, The Sunday Times "gossipers fighting for place on a bench with a view, it was a perpetuum mobile of dancers physically passing on the electricity to each other...........' Norbert Ellul Vincenti, Critic, Times of Malta. "Lighting passages and dialogues performed by contact dance company...............explores different rhythms including those of silence. Technically and visually the choreography appealed to both the eye and the mind,.........abstract yet stunning and intricate.........evoked ideas and emotions as the dance provided images which were powerful and emotional........dancers skillfully and forcefully twisted their bodies as their arms cut through the air like lightning....... no part of the body left unexplored.........half expected the movement to freeze in mid-air'" Cecila Xuereb - critic - The Times of Malta "The final evening of the festival the programme 'Choices' will performed by Contact Dance Company, exotic in the sense of modern dance conception…. " Laikinosi Soshne - Lithuania "The maltese dancers have charmed the audience with their temperament and sincerity….." Laikinosi Soshne - Lithuania. "Sometimes it seemed like 14 people were on stage instead of 7 , the mix of light and shade creating calming shadows, scribbles and angles and the dancers the perfect edge of eclectic images…." Turkish newspaper   "Splendid choreography by Francesca Abela Tranter , the very light setting with its incisive intrusion on the darkened moving shapes ….prepared you for what is to come…….an evocative silent bird of passage of great beauty…..this was one of the highlights of the evening…." Norbert Ellul Vincenti - critic the Times of Malta. "Francesca chose to stimulate, provoke and challenge that complex and complicated world of mutual play and intimate relationships between women…..like all relationships after all……" Albert G.Storace, critic reviewer, The Times of Malta. "Possesses a choreographer with a vivid imagination as was proved once again by her piece…" Cecilia Xuereb, critic - The Times of Malta. "Francesca 's choreography could contend for being among the most original works presented this evening….the cracks and spaces between the stones give the illusion of movement if stared at (some length) and that illusion materialised in the continuously changing and expressive movements of the dancers….." Albert G.Storace, critic - The Times of Malta "Created a profound new working in contemporary movement………but to be able to put one's feelings so beautifully into dance is an achievement most of us most envy……" Jacqui Debono - journalist The Malta Independent "Like floating in jelly to perfection in delayed action tempo - or hurtling through space in the speed of lightning movement……incredibly exact, pure joy, springing surprises at every corner…….taking your breath away …." Norbert Ellul Vincenti - critic reviewer, The Times of Malta. "Crying out loud for male dancers so conspicuously absent or was the creation so successful in asserting girl power by transcending the male?………." Albert G.Storace , critic reviewer, The Times of Malta. "Possibly Eve the Temptress, or maybe just Woman - it couldn't have been the Three Graces because there were four, dramatically presented…..toungue-in-cheek …….." Norbert Ellul Vincenti - critic reviewer, The Times of Malta. "Promising choreographer……her most adventurous attempt……confrontation between the two dancers were at times superb, exciting and dangerous….showing the versatility of Francesca's choreographic ability…." Vivienne Fielding Refalo, choreographer. The Times of Malta. "Even though perfection is only for the angels, ….it is a superb creation with an interpretation that brought out fully its complex and confrontational aspects and fine light effects which enhanced it further…." Albert G.Storace, critic reviewer The Times of Malta.

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