Tuesday 26 February 2013

RIP IT UP SEASON’S FINAL MONTH


 Since I am sitting in Tramway, using their internet connection and enjoying their coffee, I feel obliged to give a mention to the final month of their Rip It Up season. I have had my Young Critics at every event so far, and the fruits of their hard work will be revealed in the next publication of their magazine, Clingfilm

The first piece in March isn't even happening in Tramway. Although the main space here is my favourite venue in the world (with the possible exception of the amphitheatre at Ephesus, where I once performed an extract of Hippolytus  to a bemused audience of tourists), it makes perfect sense for Janis Claxton's Chaos and Contingency to be taking place at Kelvingrove Art Gallery. Claxton has previously used Edinburgh Zoo as a stage for her work, and while Chaos and Contingency does represent a different movement vocabulary to her recent studies based on primate behaviour, it is a fine example of how Claxton's choreography uses space as well as the body.

Using simple mathematical patterns to begin, Claxton builds up towards increasingly complex designs, which can be viewed from all sides (hence the use of the Kelvingrove, which allows the audience to stand on all sides). 

Since this is free, there is no excuse to miss this. Claxton regularly tours the world, and it would be a shame to miss this number, which is uncompromisingly experimental in form yet very easy on the eye. 

Equally free is the exhibition Space-Craft from Rachel Adams. This one is in T5 - the white space with the big window at the front - and Adams has promised she'll be mixing up science fiction (hence the name), classical sculptural motifs and decorative craft techniques (hence the name).

This looks like fun, right up until the press release mentions that these elements "brought together to create a temporal collapse." Which either means that T5 is going to be playing host to a black hole, which will devour most of Glasgow over the next six months, or that there will an interesting mixture of styles which come from diverse historical periods.  








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