Bi-annual competition Dance International Glasgow (DIG), a Glasgow Life occasion, has introduced its return and unveiled the primary occasions in its 2025 programme this spring.
Curated and produced by Tramway, the competition returns to the humanities centre and site-specific areas throughout Glasgow from 9 – 24 May. Featuring stay efficiency from worldwide names alongside homegrown and native expertise, the complete Dance International Glasgow lineup might be unveiled in March and can embrace mainstage spectaculars, screenings, outside occasions, workshops and a household programme, bringing the perfect of up to date dance to audiences of all ages throughout town.
The first of the performances to be introduced is the world premiere of disabled choreographer and singer Claire Cunningham’s Songs of the Wayfarer which might be carried out at Tramway on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 May 2025.
The world premiere sees Cunningham traverse nature, stage and Gustav Mahler’s tune cycle to navigate each recognized and unfamiliar landscapes. Led by her lived expertise as a disabled individual, Songs of the Wayfarer is impressed by Cunningham’s reminiscence of coaching as a classical singer, data drawn from the world of mountaineering, and Gustav Mahler’s ‘Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.’ Through a ‘crip lens’ – Claire explains this phrase is a political and cultural identification embraced by some disabled people – she invitations us to pay nearer consideration to the methods we navigate the bodily world, alongside profound loss and alter in our lives, by way of a ‘crip lens’
This new solo work asks – what’s it to wander and to hunt to scale nice heights? It asks what it is to maintain going and, importantly, have the knowledge to know when to show again.
The second efficiency introduced, on Wednesday 21 May, is one other world premiere, this time by Scottish/German choreographer Colette Sadler. Named after a line from the poem The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, which describes the sundown sky over London, The Violet Hour intertwines actual and digital realities in a chunk that includes dance, tune and digital video.
The Violet Hour ask if new figures and narratives might be discovered that stand in opposition to
humanity’s self-destructive drive and the pure disasters that consequence from this. The piece proposes a surreal exploration of the connection between people and our environment, stretching the notion of how we’re influenced by and implicated within the altering ecologies round us.
In a time when our relationship with the pure world is urgently shifting in ungraspable methods, The Violet Hour is an try to supply a possible future towards a extra sensually entangled interdependence with the pure world.
Both reveals are on sale now at tramway.org, and the complete DIG 2025 programme might be introduced and out there to e book on 19 March.
Claire Cunningham – Songs of the Wayfarer (Scotland)
Friday 9 May, 7pm – 8.30pm and Saturday 10 May, 4pm – 5.30pm
Tramway (T1), 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE
Tickets £13 (£10)
Recommended for ages 12+
ACCESS: Relaxed efficiency, Audio description out there, BSL interpreted on 9 May.
Wednesday 19 March
Colette Sadler – The Violet Hour (Scotland/Germany)
Wednesday 21 May 2025, 7.30pm – 8.30pm
Tramway (T1), 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE
Tickets £13 (£10)
ACCESS: Audio described, Highly Visual / No or Little Text, Touch Tour Box out there
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