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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]
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MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about a two-handed theatrical homage to jazz’s most mercurial musician
ANDY HEDGECOCK is enthralled by a collection of South Korean ghost stories where human behaviour is as chilling as any spectral activity
DAVID YEARSLEY examines the soundtrack and filmic predecessors of the execrable Melania
SIMON PARSONS is charmed by a hilarious tender show that will open the eyes to the delights and possibilities of puppetry
SCOTT ALSWORTH suggests that video games have a lot to learn the rich tradition of Marxist theatre
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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