We saw Hands some Feet last year, and enthusiastically saw it again this year. This young couple are the very epitome of sweetness on stage and off - take one elfin Finnish woman ( I think she's from Tampere?) and one sturdy Perth man, but watch as together they fight gravity in their unique way.
Actually it's not so much that they fight gravity in that they seem to have gotten a light dispensation - Jeromy Zwick with his extraordinary utilisation of juggling balls, at times far too many to count how many were in the air - and Liisa Naykki with her grace, dancing, running and jumping on the tight wire as though magnetized. Combining their arts in a charming and thoughtful love story - use the backs of your partner's knees on the wire to pass juggling balls to as she dances on it while you're below - juggling with your partner's unresponsive limbs - and other moves that made me feel I was watching intimate moments as Pygmalion - like a response is finally forthcoming.
There's huge frenetic energy, and then sudden, intimate stops - realisations and the facial expressions lead us through the characters' journey. With some new embellishment this year!
The skipping finale' is something to behold.
What is extraordinary is that this rigorous physical combination of wire, music on unusual instruments, singing, juggling, clowning, acrobatics and skipping is not that it's combined so well, although that's true, but that to a viewer in the middle of the heat of Perth feels the whole performance is a refreshing and uplifting cool breeze, a spritzer for the soul.
Hands some Feet have 9 more shows over the next 10 days.
10/10 refreshing and drinking cloudberry fizzy watching the butterflies in the summer forest in Finland on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
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