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Scottish Dance Theatre
Revenge of The Impossible Things and
Inside Somewhere
Company - Scottish
Dance Theatre SDT are based at Dundee Rep 01382 342600 its
Artistic Director is Janet Smith.
2003 Tour details see Scottish
Dance Theatre website
Review of 2002 Tour
Date & Venue Seen - 11 October 2002 Brunton Theatre Musselburgh
Nr Edinburgh
Run Time - 1hrs 25 mins including 15 interval
Reviewer - Thelma Good
Two contrasting pieces show breadth and delight.
Inside Somewhere
Choreographer - Sean Feldman
Music - Richard Wolfson & Andy Saunders (from Kaddish), RRichard
Robbins (from Via Circus)
Set Designer - Andrew Morrison
Costume Designer - Jane Petrie
Lighting Designer - Tim Skelly
Dancers - Full Scottish Dance Theatre Company - James MacGillivray,
Baptiste Bourgougnon, Ruth Jassen, Anthony Missen, Gemma Nixon, Victoria
Roberts, Kevin Turner and Holly Warren.
Inside Somewhere - Scottish Dance Theatre
James MacGillivray and Victoria Roberts
© Kevin Low 2002
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Based on Chagall's paintings with a staircase which might lead to heaven
and exploration of an angel which could be inside each of us, Feldman's
piece is danced against a huge Chagall-like night sky.
There are occasional pieces of text projected on the backcloth while in
front of us the dancers join and separate, moving with the songs of Kaddish
(Jewish ritual for the Dead). It goes in elliptical directions finally
ending where it began using fluid movement to combine with the music.
James MacGillivray, always in this peice really on his own, is the character
and soul of Chagall. The rest of the company become the images Chagall
created again and again in his wonderful dreaming, mystical paintings
where the sky features as a heavenly place where people are released.
It was not always clear what was happening, even though well executed
throughout. The lack of a narrative thread, and the expectation given
by the programme that it was the other peice I was seeing first, hindered
getting into this peice. But once I realised it was Inside Somewhere
I was watching I could merge my memories of the paintings and more fully
comprehend what unfolded before me.
And
Revenge of The Impossible Things
Directors - Tom Roden and Pete Shenton (New Art Club) with grateful
contributions from the company
Music - The Buzzcocks, Magnetic Fields and Magical Power Makeover
Designer - Phyllis Byrne
Lighting Designer - Tim Skelly
Dancers - Full Scottish Dance Theatre Company - James MacGillivray,
Baptiste Bourgougnon, Ruth Jassen, Anthony Missen, Gemma Nixon, Victoria
Roberts, Kevin Turner and Holly Warren.
Text, fun and laughter, it's a million light years away from girls in
tutus and men in tights and not a glance at the audience. This company
of young dancers introduce themselves, we know their names and they invite
us to enjoy. It's a very refreshing change as with them, we experience
impossible things.
Watching them was irresistible, dressed in white hospital shifts which
expose their lovely bottoms, walk up skyscrapers, or turn into very bouncy
rabbits till over eager Kevin takes it too far and Anthony goes after
him with a gun and James gets terribly, terribly upset. It also explores
dancing a dance where a trio becomes a solo, and back again, and the world
of relationships where things go wrong and right.
Tom Roden and Pete Sherdon's first, and I hope not last, work for SDT
has these dancers engaging with the audience in ways that recall the work
of Peter Handke. Images become impossible dreams realised in movement
executed with a real, light touch of enthusiasm which is highly infectious.
By the end of the piece I left feeling life and dance are full of possibilities.
This approach has many more exciting avenues beckoning when dancers talk,
even have dialogues and acknowledge the audience who have come to see
them dance. Having been allowed to share the piece with them, for the
first time in a long while I thought dance had regained the delight of
doing. Surprising us with a walk and bounce into the world of imagination
where even flying might have happened.
Revenge of The Impossible Things - Scottish Dance Theatre Production
Dancers Holly Warren and Anthony Missen
© Kevin Low 2002
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© Thelma Good 11 October 2002. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
2003 Tour details see Scottish
Dance Theatre website
2002 Tour Details
Four pieces Highland, Daddy
I'm Not Well, Inside Somewhere and Revenge
Of The Impossible Things, are included in the tour. Each venue gets
a selection see intial for which is done where.
SDT info number is 01382 342600
Tour Begins
19 & 21 Sept Dundee Rep R &
I
21 Sept Dundee Rep R &
D
8 Oct Theatre Royal Glasgow R, H &
I
10 Oct Musselburgh Brunton Theatre R &
I
18 Oct Wakefield Theatre Royal R &
D
23 Oct Skye Arain Chaluim Chille R &
H
25 Oct Pitlochry Theatre H &
I
6 Nov Aberdeen His Majesty's Theatre R, H &
D
9 Nov Leeds Riley Theatre R &
H
15 Nov Stirling macRobert I & D
19 Nov Inverness Eden Court Theatre R, H &
D
21 Nov Strontian Sunart Centre I &
H
26 Nov St Andrews Byre Theatre R &
D
Tour Ends
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