Photo by Maria FalconerFollowing the success of Curious Seed's award-winning production Found in 2009, P U S H is the company's ambitious new full length dance theatre performance. Read more …
The logic of P U S H is the logic of a dream; full of contradictions and challenges, hopes, fears, needs, desires, and poetry in the mundane. A group of people inhabit this timeless place. Fragments of their ordinary stories unfold and remind us to question what's important. What pushes you to move, to say something, to push back?
Conceived and directed by Christine Devaney- with her growing trademark of marrying expressive choreography and live music with poetic text and video images - P U S H involves a wall, a young girl and an ensemble of "extra/ordinary" people. This promises to be Curious Seed's most challenging and beautiful performance to date.
If Push struggles a little to find its conclusion, the cumulative effect is a bravura challenge to selfish complacency and a heart-rending cry for compassion.
Too much time spent dragging clothes around the stage, and a clock-watchingly slow ending, makes PUSH feels more like a work in progress than the finished article.
There is so much in this work to treasure and chew over thoughtfully afterwards. The end, involving audience participation, is almost overwhelming.
Curious Seed--PUSH
Interview: Choreographer Christine Devaney
Now for another trick in the wall
macrobert, Stirling from Thursday February 23, 2012. More info: www.macrobert.org
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh from Saturday February 25, 2012. More info: www.bruntontheatre.co.uk
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness from Tuesday February 28, 2012. More info: www.eden-court.co.uk
An Lanntair, Stornoway from Wednesday March 7, 2012. More info: www.lanntair.com
Mull Theatre, Isle of Mull from Saturday March 10, 2012. More info: www.mulltheatre.com
Woodend Barn, Banchory from Thursday March 15, 2012.
Universal Hall, Findhorn from Sunday March 18, 2012.
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Saturday March 24, 2012. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
Platform, Glasgow from Friday February 17, 2012, until Saturday February 18, 2012. More info: www.platform-online.co.uk
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