Dancing sans the fetters of identity

AFTER two weeks of a wide and eclectic range of festival programmes, the M1 Fringe Festival 2014 ended with something more down-to-earth - pared down to the human body and movement.

Focus, by French choreographer Ole Khamchanla, of Compagnie Kham, presented a dance "without identity" which sought to illustrate dance in its "concrete, expressive, abstract and meditative forms". Although it's hard at first to visualise …