Scottish Dance Theatre - Backstage Pass
From: Tuesday, 23rd March 2010
To: Wednesday, 24 March 2010
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24 March 2010
Scottish Dance Theatre is Scotland’s national contemporary dance company. They premiere two new works in their short run at the Lowry in Salford.
The Life and Times of Girl A is devised by established choreographer and performer Ben Duke and is described as “a work about moments of crisis when all we need is to use less to say more.“ The piece is lead by French born dancer Solene Weinachter who plays a woman who seems to want to connect with various members of the company but never quite manages it. She talks to the audience and instructs various dancers to take part in apparently improvised sequences where she needs them to woo her in some way. The discrepancy between this need and their reluctance to speak as they are dancers evokes much comedy.
The spoken text though quirky and often clever gets in the way of the dancing. It is difficult fully to experience the movements as they would cease and t...
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Peter Rivendell - 24 March 2010:
'With work of this calibre it is not hard to see why the Scottish Dance Theatre is so popular.' - hard to explain though why the Lowry Quays was so empty... I actually disagree slightly. Although in The Life and Times of Girl A it seemed as if the company were actors who could dance rather than dancers, I thought this piece was more successful and really liked its deconstructed narrative and upbeat Shechter-esque ending. NQR was powerfully thought-provoking and much more compelling from a dance perspective but I found it ultimately inconclusive....
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