Flawless: Intergalactic Dream

Flawless leave Britain's Got Talent behind as they return to the Fringe with their odd new show

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Published 21 Aug 2011
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World Street Dance Champions and former Britain's Got Talent finalists Flawless return to Edinburgh following their success at last year's Fringe with Intergalactic Dream. Taking pride of place in the Pleasance Grand, the group have concocted a show that features their signature moves and energy, but this time there's a twist. They're not just dancing – they're dancing in space.

Space travel has fascinated humans for generations, but the concept of dance in space has never really been explored. And so Flawless have bravely volunteered to see what being on a spaceship does to their moves.

Cheap CGI and tedious allusions to Flawless travelling on a spaceship to an unknown destination try to set up the show's narrative - they are on a spaceship, they choose an object, they perform a dance inspired by that object. However, this setting is a fairly bizarre platform for their real talent: dance.

Flawless are slick, impressive and fun performers, with dance numbers inspired by The Matrix, The Mask and Michael Jackson. Yet the concept seems a little too much. They're undoubtedly a talented and respected dance group. But this show, with its strange setting and fractured structure doesn't seem right for them and is perhaps one for die-hard Flawless fans only.