HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
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]
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
JONATHAN TAYLOR is fascinated by the philosophical problems that permeate the art of life-writing
GORDON PARSONS steps warily in between the lines of Britain’s most famous diarist
SIMON DUFF recommends a recording of Arvo Part that takes the listener on a pilgrimage through seemingly distant times and events of the Bible
JENNY FARRELL relishes an intimate memoir about growing up in the household of the great Irish communist and playwright Sean O’Casey
SIAN LEWIS relishes a comprehensive account of high rise social housing in Britain by prize-winning social and political historian Holly Smith
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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