THE Holiday on Ice team provided thrills, spills, colour and extravagance with their new production, Fantasy.
The creative team led by Robin Cousins and Anthony van Least invited the audience into their colourful world of dreams, nightmares and fantasies.
No fewer than 49 talented international skaters performed an ambitious 13 routines.
It was highly energetic and visually stunning, and we were entertained by the slapstick of the schoolroom and the diversity of the 60s complete with scooters, Mary Quant fashions and flower-power girls before the volume was turned down and the romance of Paris was evoked as two strangers shared an imaginary intimate encounter.
A menacing fire-dance complete with ambiguous hooded figures, jesters and clowns altered the tone.
The second half had two undisputed high points, one being the opulence and elegance of Bollywood Dream, where one woman's fantasy turned her into an Indian princess and led her to her own wedding, the other being the breathtaking air acrobatics of Bjorn Aderhold, Oxana Anichkina and Ruslan Svitchi.
The duet work throughout the production was powerful and controlled with some awe-inspiring lifts and jumps.
The soloists, on the other hand, took a fair share of tumbles, though none serious.
Hugely entertaining, undoubtedly a spectacular, but the subject matter slightly too diverse?
You have until Saturday to make up your mind.
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