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The nugget that won’t go away
MATTHEW HAWKINS speaks to dance-artist and community catalyser Christine Devaney about past and new projects
Christine Devaney performs And The Birds Did Sing
[Maria Falconer]
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
Evidence points to a Scottish provenance for the extraordinary Irish illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells, suggests RACHEL MOSS
CHRIS SEARLE relishes an account of the years when a black American music carried a message of anti-racism and class struggle
This stunning film about a Bulgarian textile worker highlights the exploitative nature of Euro-capitalism, says RITA DI SANTO
PETER MASON thrills to Irish folk band The Haar
WHEN the Glasgow-born dance artist Christine Devaney eventually set herself up as a dance-theatre maker – founding her company Curious Seed in Edinburgh in 2005 – choreographic signature was not her exclusive aim.
Instead, Curious Seed’s methods have involved the gathering of several trusted peers with specialist skills and multi-media interests, to embark on experimentation, in the ethos of “nobody knows.” Christine then finds (in solitude) that some arising nugget of an idea “won’t go away”. A Curious Seed work is then catalysed when she describes said nugget.
I put it to her that her team will have been ductile in anticipation of her intuition. This she amusedly accepts.
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