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Theatre listings > CervaNtes - Scottish premiere. Choreographer – Anna Lujan Sanchez. Signals - Scottish premiere. Choreographer – Merce Cunningham. Violet. Choreographer – Henri Oguike. Savalliana - World Premiere. Choreographer – Rui Lopes Graca. Poison - UK Premiere. Choreographer – Rui Lopes Graca. Music, Designers & Dancers - here . Company – The Curve Foundation Dance Company - Artistic Director Ross Cooper. Company Website. Tour details.- Here. Run Time – 2 hours and 20 minutes. One interval. Reviewer – Thelma Good. Finding the replay button. Founded by the Scottish Dancer and choreographer Ross Cooper The Curve Foundation Dance Company open their 2005 Spring Tour with pieces which stretch the audiences at the same time as they delight. Scotland is having a dance rebirth at the moment and Curve Foundation are very much part of that exciting wave. They are still on SAC project funding, but looking at the quality of this programme it looks like more permanent funding could be in order. CervaNtes is performed in silence, or would be if the air conditioning allowed. As it was at Mussellburgh the fan's intrusion became a piece of found music. Anna Lujan Sanchez choreography danced with precision and balance by Christophe Carpentier is an introduction to watching a body in motion. Merce Cunningham's Signals in its Scottish Premiere begins with two dancers and builds through solos, duos and trios to a sextet of dancers leaping and moving in unison. It's a piece that intrigues with its varying pace and combinations, all danced to score mixed from a electic variety of sounds including bull frogs and highland music not to mention the extra from some venues air conditioning! Not easy compositions to dance to with its long moments of silence. At the beginning the dancers didn't quite met the challenge of dancing to the John Cage, Gordon Mumma and Anthony Tudor music and there were some occasions when precision of the ensemble wasn't quite there. This was followed by Henri Oguike's Violet with his exuberant choreography to Vivaldi's Four Season's - it's a dance for and of life as it moves and flows forwards. At points it erupts into patterns danced by all, at its close a male dancer spins and turns and then walks off leaving you longing to find the replay button for. Nor is it the only one, Savalliana danced by Soraya Ham has her moving in and out of a lit rectangle like a bird soar up a current of air then losing it to find another. The programme at The Brunton finished with the one piece that funds and spaces does not allow them to tour, Rui Lopes Graca's Poison in its UK premiere. Exploring the belief that the bite of a venomous spider can be countered by dancing the Tarantella the seven dancers are found in strange states, they couple up trying to dance their selves well. As there are seven of them they always have to search out another or make larger groups. One laughs disturbingly, all move as if mesmerised, the mix of music contains moving full throated singing and a real sense of unhinging and fear is transmitted. Some may ask how strong are the Scottish elements in this company's programme with the choreographers, other creatives and dancers all mostly drawn from elsewhere. Dance is a very international art form, its language open to those responding to it and it's in its nature to create the form while dissolving the boundaries of geography and culture. Drawing from all ages and backgrounds for its audience, The Curve Foundation Dance Company led by the Scot Ross Cooper already delights them and may inspire them to create themselves. Such inspiration Scotland needs. ©Thelma Good 25 March 2005 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Music, Designers and Dancers Details- CervaNtes - Dancer - Christophe Carpentier. Signals - Music - John Cage, Gordon Mumma, Anthony Tudor, Costume Design - Thomas Caley. Dancers - Lorien Slaughter, Chloe Wilkinson, Jurriaan Loos, Catherine Pearmain, Christophe Carpentier and Soraya Ham. Violet. - Music - Vivaldi. Dancers - Lorien Slaughter, Chloe Wilkinson, Jurriaan Loos, Catherine Pearmain, Christophe Carpentier, Soraya Ham and Morgan Runacre-Temple. Savalliana - Music - Francesco Correa De Arrauxo. Lighting Designer - David Comrie, Dancer - Soraya Ham. Poison - Music - L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar, La Tarantella. Costume Design - Vera Castro. Dancers - Lorien Slaughter, Chloe Wilkinson, Jurriaan Loos, Catherine Pearmain, Christophe Carpentier, Soraya Ham and Morgan Runacre-Temple. Poison will only be performed at the Brunton. Other peices for the Spring Tour are First Draft - Choreographer - Rui Lopes Graca. Music - JS Bach. When Disturbed, Then Disturbed - Choreographer - Ross Cooper. Music - Meredith Monk. Tour Details of 2005 Spring Tour of The Curve Foundation Dance Company. Tour begins. 25 & 26 March at 7.30pm Edinburgh Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh 0131 665 2240. 2 April at 7.30pm Aberdeen His Majesty's Theatre, 01224 641 122. 8 April at tbc Mull Dervaig Village Hall, 01688 302 828. 13 April at tbc Inverness Spectrum Theatre, 01463 221 8421. 15 April at 7.30pm Portree Aros Centre, , Isle of Skye 01478 613 750. 16 April at tbc Fort William Nevis Centre 01397 700 707. 20 April at 7.30pm Dunfermline Carnegie Hall 01383 314 000. 22 April at 7.45pm Cumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld 01236 732 887. 23 April at 7.30pm Kilmarnock The Palace Theatre 01563 578 153. 27 April at 7.30pm Glasgow Tron Theatre 0141 552 42 67. 30 April at 7.30pm Peebles Eastgate Theatre 01721 725 777. Tour ends.
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