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Joan Cleville of Scottish Dance Theatre. Related Content How do you choreograph a dance about hair? It all comes down to curiosity, says Scottish Dance Theatre’s artistic director Joan Clevillé. The company is getting ready to screen a new free work to celebrate International Dance Day on April 29 ­– and it all began before lockdown with a trip to South America. Company member Pauline Torzuoli created Thin h/as h/air after seeing bizarre plants called Itla-okla that resemble hair while on tour. “She had seen these plants when we were in South America,” explains Joan. “We were ther...

© Andrew Cawley Maureen Beattie would not respond kindly to the old-fashioned notion of women being seen and not heard. She is, however, heard and not seen, in a new production by Sound Stage, which premieres through Pitlochry Festival Theatre on April 30 and runs through to May 8. If there was ever a playwright who could hold the attention, just by his use of language in an audio-only production, it’s John Byrne, and naturally there’s much excitement that this production, Tennis Elbow, is his first in 13 years. “It’s been an absolute joy getting my tongue and all my vocal mechanisms...

EXCLUSIVE: Dundee cultural organisations share £1m fund for Covid-19 recovery © SYSTEM Tim Allan, Chair of V&A Dundee, which has taken the lead on the Dundee Covid Recovery Fund. Five of Dundee’s cultural organisations are planning their road out of lockdown, thanks to a £1 million fund. The Dundee Cultural Recovery Fund is a joint enterprise led by V&A Dundee to benefit five organisations in the city, the other four being Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee Heritage Trust (Discovery Point and Verdant Works), Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre, and Dundee Science Centre. At the beginning...

© Supplied by Dundee Rep The new online production of Smile, the play which went behind the touchline traumas of Dundee United legend Jim McLean, has punted the ball out of the park with ticket numbers, after just two days on sale. Enough of the football puns. Much of the success of Phillip Differ’s portrait of the footballing icon was the fact that it looked at the man rather than the manager. Its success just before lockdown, in February 2020 as part of the Rep’s 80th anniversary season, was reason enough to bring it back with the original production team, but restaged and shot specifi...

Dundee Rep launches online studios as Barrie Hunter opens up on emotional reprisal of role portraying Dundee United legend Jim McLean © Steve Brown / DCT Media Barrie Hunter as Jim McLean. As the doors to theatres and venues closed last spring, there was a rush to keep a connection with audiences in any way possible. Throughout the year and its extended lockdowns, it became clear that there would be no speedy reopening. The content being offered became more sophisticated and there was a realisation that this could become another valuable strand to performance of all kinds. At Dundee Rep, thi...