By Ernest Kearney — The Aeriform Arts Studios is setup for those interested in learning the skills of trapeze, ribbon silks, lyra hoop and other forms of acrobatic disciplines usually seen featured in Vegas shows and Cirque du Soleil.
The production of Dorothy & Alice: An Aerial Play, offers the studio’s students an opportunity to show off their talents to a live audience. They succeed in displaying fanciful feats and presenting some lovely stage scenes.
They frame the show, which just closed its extended run at Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018, is a schoolyard meeting between Dorothy of Oz fame and Alice the muse of Lewis Carroll; a serviceable concept, but one that they have not used to serve the show.
It is basically a statement: “Alice meets Dorothy,” but a statement is not a foundation for a dramatic endeavor.
No effort was made by Producer Lea Walker or Creative Director Colleen Dunleap to develop a narrative or structure a satisfying piece of theatre in which the skills of the cast 
could be interwoven as a natural and integral element.
The show consists of choreographed pieces, generally to rather predictable musical selections that suffer from being merely isolated “bits.”
Though the show was barely worthy of a Bronze, the work of the performers was solid and I’m giving it a SILVER MEDAL in hopes that next year, Aeriform Arts Studios returns to the Fringe with a piece that’s been given a good deal more thought.
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(To learn more about Aeriform Arts Studios projects and classes click HERE.)
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