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This year promises to be our best festival
yet with performances, discussions and workshops running throughout
the last 3 weeks of October. We've also been able to link
up with the start of the sound festival, with jointly programmed
events highlighting the best in live music and dance, including
a new event for 2009 - a symposium on Making Music for Dance
- Making Dance with Music, investigating how creative teams
work together.
The Festival will feature nine companies performing and work-shopping
in Aberdeen and Banchory.
Scottish Ballet, celebrating its 40th birthday, will
show its glittering revival of Balanchine's Rubies
from the full length ballet Jewels. The programme at
HMT also features two contemporary works: William Forsythe's
WorkWithinWork and Krzysztof Pastor's In Light and
Shadow.
Other companies appearing at The Lemon Tree, Woodend Barn
and Citymoves Studio include - David Hughes Dance with
the demonic Red Room, Dudendance with meticulous
and riveting Spaceman, Retina Dance Company
with the raw and exhilarating Antipode and Relative
Danger and Vincent Dance Theatre with the dark
and witty If We Go On.
The Curve Foundation will present a studio performance
of works by Ohad Naharin, Fernando Hernando Magadan and Peter
Darrell. Curious Seed present their latest work, the
hugely powerful Found and Articulate Animal
perform re-membering(s) a series of compelling, improvised
miniatures in contemporary music and dance.
Individual dance artists Jack Webb and Svenja Hame, Michael
Popper, Rosalind Masson and Claire Pencak will be presenting
their latest work in Soundings and East Coast Moves.
And as DanceLive is not just about dance, live music featured
this season will also include works by; Nigel Osborne, Igor
Stravinsky, Aaron Lewis, Luciano Berio, Johann Sebastian Bach,
Luke Sutherland and Jer Reid, Jules Maxwell, Joris Vanvinckenroye,
Ian Wilson, Suzanne Parry and Alex Catona.
Almost all the companies appearing in DanceLive are giving
workshops, see the Workshop & Classes page for times and
dates.
Hope you enjoy it all!
Ian Spink
Artistic Director
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