Scottish audiences are in for a springtime treat as award-winning dancer/choreographer, Claire Cunningham, will be performing her highly acclaimed double bill ME (Mobile/Evolution) with four performances in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy and the Isle of Skye before heading to the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania. This tour is generously funded by Creative Scotland. Read more …
ME (Mobile/Evolution) was first produced as a double bill for the Dancebase season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2009, where it was both a popular and critical hit. As a result, the production was awarded a prestigious Herald Angel Award. It also toured across Europe last summer, including performances in Italy, Germany, Poland and Ireland, again to huge critical and popular acclaim.
A biographical and humorous double bill that challenges audiences ideas of aesthetic. It showcases her exceptional dance technique and impressive power, woven from humorous stories about doctors and dancing, bikes and ballet, all threaded together and balanced upon, hanging from, spinning on, and swinging on, crutches. Any possible sentimentality is undercut with a healthy dose of Scottish sarcasm.
That gloriously jaunty Singin’ in the Rain finale to Evolution remains one of the most joyful moments you’ll see, ever – see ME, see talented charisma in motion.
Her website describes her act as ‘multi-disciplinary’ and that is well put, because the kind of talent which Claire exudes couples that spark of creative ingenuity which makes an artist, with the cultivation that could only have come with tireless hours of practice since her interest in aerial work and movement was kindled in 2005.
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On Tour, from Wednesday April 20, 2011, until Saturday May 7, 2011.
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