Old Boy offers an insight into Dundee’s boys and men, the history of familiar faces. Finn hasn’t even learned to walk, yet his grandfather Martin is here to share his story — just last year born but with so much ahead of him to learn. 10-year-old Harris has a special bond with his grandfather, David, talking about football, discussing the present, the future, and answering Harris’ hundreds of questions about David’s past, “What was life like when you were my age, granddad?”
Scottish Dance TheatreDundee Rep, 17-18 March Two pieces from the SDT’s new production are inspired by nature—imagining how we could be something else (a tree or a flock of birds). These create a shared space in a joyous & expansive act of poetic imagination. Pauline Torzuoli, the choreographer, has suggested seeing the piece as ‘a Read More
TutuMucky begins with sounds in darkness – an unnervingly loud, rhythmic cacophony of rasping music, grating metal and dripping water. Then, in semi-darkness, we can just make out human forms, the dancers, sitting bent over, their black and earthy coloured tutus creating unfamiliar shapes in the low light. It might be horror, or science fiction, Read More
Fleur Darkin’s latest offering, Miann, premiered at the Fringe last year as part of the Made in Scotland curated showcase. This work certainly achieves Darkin’s desire to remind us that “life is felt before it is understood”. Pulsating with sensory impressions, the dancers (the full company plus guest dancers, James Southward and Quang Kien Van) Read More
For sedentary types, watching dancers as bodies in motion is to make contact again with the dream of air and speed: the quickness of lives unbounded by the terrestrial. And so it was Friday night when the Scottish Dance Theatre transformed a bare, whitened stage space at the Dundee Rep into a quicksilver blur of Read More