Scottish Dance Theatre
Celebrating 21 years of new and original dance theatre…
Scottish Dance Theatre
The Lowry, Fri 2 & Sat 3 November 2007
Press Night: Fri 2 November
Scotland’s leading dance theatre company, Scottish DanceTheatre, has plenty of reasons to celebrate – the company’s 21st birthday, 10 years with their Artistic Director Janet Smith at the helm and a brand new programme of new and original dance theatre which will come to The Lowry on Fri 2 and Sat 3 November.
This tour features a world première of the stunning tenderhook by Liv Lorent as well as the powerful Sorryfor the Missiles! by Vanessa Haska and Second Storm by Czech choreographer and SDT dancer Michal Zahora.
tenderhook is Liv Lorent’s second work for SDT – the first being the much-loved, critically acclaimed LUXURIA which won a Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005 and fast became one of the company’s signature pieces.
Fresh from a successful run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Sorry for the Missiles! is a gripping piece of theatrical dance that excites, entertains and is ultimately moving. Michal Zahora’s trio Second Storm is a co-commission between SDT and Nanohach dance theatre company made collaboratively with 3 SDT dancers and 3 Nanohach dancers. Potent and mesmeric like an ancient rite of passage, Second Storm will be performed throughout the UK by SDT and in the Czech Republic by Nanohach.
Scottish Dance Theatre is one of a handful of UK dance companies to regularly commission, produce and tour new work – in the last 10 years, the company has commissioned a phenomenal 33 new works from Janet Smith as well as a slew of British and international choreographers. Major achievements in Janet’s 10 year tenure include winning the Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Company Repertoire in 2003. “a brilliantly expressive and moving piece of dance theatre examining the impact of war on individuals' lives”, Scotland on Sunday.
Posted on Wednesday, 31 October 2007 under Press Theatre Press