Exciting Collaboration of Scottish Music and Dance to Tour Scotland
Scotland's foremost chamber group has joined with one of the nation's premier dance groups to create an exciting tour of venues large and small across the country. Hebrides Ensemble and Scottish Dance Theatre will be performing a tour entitled 'Signs, Games and Messages' as part of the Scottish Arts Council's Tune Up programme.
The tour will see Hebrides Ensemble perform the beautiful Pari Intervallo by Arvo Pärt with Scottish Dance Theatre delivering stunning new choreography by top choreographers Uri Ivgi and Johan Greben (titled In the Middle of the Moment) for two dancers. Hebrides Ensemble will also perform the intimate Signs, Games and Messages by György Kurtág, works by Luciano Berio, Francis Poulenc and the virtuosic Concert Suite for seven instruments from The Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky.
Matthew Studdert-Kennedy, producer of the Hebrides Ensemble tour, said: "This tour combines some great music performed by top musicians with the best of contemporary dance. We are very much looking forward to bringing this distinctive event to audiences throughout Scotland."
Janet Smith, Artistic Director of Scottish Dance Theatre, said: "We are very excited about the tour as it's the next stage of what we hope will be a long collaborative relationship with Hebrides Ensemble. I greatly admire the quality and vision of the Hebrides Ensemble and both companies have a passion for bringing experimental work to a wide audience.
"In the Middle of the Moment - the work that Uri and Johan have created – is an intensely beautiful duet that plays out a couple's relationship in a very confined space. The work will be performed by SDT dancers and real life husband and wife James MacGillivray and Victoria Roberts, and alternatively by Ruth Janssen and Michal Zahora. We relish the opportunity to take dance in new directions and hope it delights audiences - old and new – across Scotland."
Full tour dates (starting at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated):
Thursday 2 November Platform at The Bridge Glasgow
Friday 3 November Community Theatre, Fortrose
Saturday 4 November Inchbare Hall (for Angus Arts)
Sunday 5 November Woodend Barn, Banchory,(as part of the Sound Festival) 3pm
Monday 6 November The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Tuesday 7 November The Space, Dundee
The performances are all part of the ambitious Tune Up programme, which is Scottish Arts Council National Lottery funded. It provides the opportunity for people and communities from all over the country to sample a wide range of the highest quality live music in many genres, ranging from classical and Gaelic to world and jazz.
Ian Smith, Head of Music for Scottish Arts Council said: "This is a wonderful collaboration that we are proud to stage through Tune Up. To have this quality of music and dance playing in communities across Scotland is simply fantastic. We are certain Scottish audiences are in for a real treat from this tour."
Nine top producers are delivering segments of Tune Up and different tours will be undertaken over the next nine months as part of the Tune Up programme, which will run through until July 2007.