Rambert has never sounded quite like this before. Britain’s national dance company brings brass band-powered dance to the Festival Theatre. Joined live on stage by the full ranks of Whitburn Band, reigning Scottish Brass Band Champions, Rambert presents Dark Arteries, a powerful, emotion-filled work about community and change, inspired by the 30th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike. It is a dance which draws you into its emotional heart while the music lifts the hairs on the back of your neck, then raises the roof. Read more …
Dark Arteries forms the centrepiece of a triple bill of stunning dance, which also includes Transfigured Night. In Transfigured Night two lovers meet by moonlight, and a dark secret threatens to tear them apart. Created by two-time Olivier-award winning choreographer Kim Brandstrup, it is a dramatic love story, with intimate duets and spectacular ensemble dancing amplifying the beauty and romance of its Schoenberg score.
The programme is completed by The 3 Dancers, based on one of Picasso’s greatest paintings, and the tragic love triangle that inspired it. Choreographer Didy Veldman and composer Elena Kats-Chernin bring to life Picasso’s vivid Cubist imagery and the themes of love, desire and doom which fill his work.
Packed with thought-provoking drama, superb live music and world-class dancing, this is Britain’s national dance company at its most captivating.
Rambert: Dark Arteries, The Three Dancers and Transfigured Night
Whitburn Band and Rambert Dance Company join for Miners' Strike work
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh from Thursday November 26, 2015, until Saturday November 28, 2015. More info: http://www.edtheatres.com/festival