MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long
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Solos and Duets
MATTHEW HAWKINS samples the work on offer in an economically trimmed-down Dancebase and puts movement into words
Mikolaj Karczewski in Stone-Face-Book; Sun Chung-Hsueh and Hsia Ling in Duo
[Courtesy dancebase/Chao-Sheng Ho] 
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DANCE BASE is a purpose-built facility that runs year-round. Home to a vibrant array of activity, and formerly hosting a great crush of Edinburgh Festival Fringe events, the venue now vaults a chasm of post-Covid uncertainty with the specifics of its 2023 programme, as co-curated (for the first time) with the Assembly franchise.
We are in something of an edit.
I took a look at a sequence of four works, taking the form of duets and solos, in the single available performing space, other vast studios on the premises are tabled-up and serving as industry hubs.
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