Following the success of Curious Seed’s award-winning production found in 2009, P U S H is the company’s ambitious new dance theatre performance touring across Scotland in February/March 2012. It will involve six performers, a wall, a young girl and an ensemble of extra/ordinary people.

The logic of P U S H is the logic of a dream; full of contradictions and challenges, hopes, fears, needs, desires, and poetry in the mundane. A group of people inhabit this timeless place. Fragments of their ordinary/extraordinary stories unfold and remind us to question what’s important. What pushes you to move, to say something, to push back?

Conceived and directed by Christine Devaney, P U S H highlights her growing trademark of marrying expressive choreography and live music with poetic text and video images.

It also marks the return of her creative partnership with composer and musician, Luke Sutherland (who recently recorded violin parts for Mogwai’s new album). Sutherland and cellist, Robin Mason, have collaborated on the commissioned score which encompasses a pre-recorded sound-scape, live music and voice.

Award-winning designer, Karen Tennent, has created the world of P U S H inspired by the presence of a ‘wall’ – something to P U S H against, to keep us in, support us and allude to something beyond.  Video artist, Jonathan Charles’ projections add a dreamlike quality, bringing the outside world inside, adding textures and a new detailed reality.

Simon Wilkinson’s painterly, dramatic lighting ensures that these ordinary stories are lifted into another realm where the beauty and subtlety of the work is enhanced. P U S H also draws together an extra/ordinary ensemble of local people from each of the areas where the performance is touring.

Directed by Christine Devaney

Devised by the company and performed by Christine Devaney, Skye Reynolds, Anthony Mills, Andrew Gardiner, Judith Williams, Tallulah Molleson, Robin Mason

and an extra/ordinary ensemble

Original music composed by Luke Sutherland & Robin Mason

Production design by Karen Tennent

Lighting design by Simon Wilkinson

Video design by Jonathan Charles (D Fie Foe)

TOUR INFORMATION/LISTINGS

Platform (Glasgow) • Fri 17 & Sat 18 Feb 2012 • 7.30pm • £8/£4.50/ £3.50 (local links) • 0141 276 9696 (opt 1) • www.platform-online.co.uk

macrobert (Stirling) • Thu 23 Feb 2012 • 7.30pm • £12/£9/£7 • 01786 466666 • www.macrobert.org

Brunton Theatre (Musselburgh) • Sat 25 Feb 2012 • 7.30pm • £10.75/£8.75/£6 • 0131 665 2240 • www.bruntontheatre.co.uk

Eden Court Theatre (Inverness) • Tue 28 Feb 2012 • 7.30pm • £9/£7/£5 • 01463 234234 • www.eden-court.co.uk

An Lanntair (Stornoway) • Wed 7 Mar 2012 • 8pm • £10/£9/£8 • 01851 708480 • www.lanntair.com

Mull Theatre (Druimfin) • Sat 10 Mar 2012 • 8pm • £9/£6 • 01688 302828 • www.mulltheatre.com

Woodend Barn (Banchory) • Thu 15 Mar 2012 • 7.30pm • £10/£8/£5 in advance • £11/£9/£5 on the door • 01330 825431 • www.woodendbarn.co.uk

Universal Hall (Findhorn) • Sun 18 Mar • 7.30pm •£10/£8/£6 • 01309 690110 • www.thebooth.co.uk

Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh) • Sat 24 Mar • 7.30pm • £15/£11/£6 • 0131 228 1404 • www.traverse.co.uk

Full details are available on: www.curious-seed.co.uk

Source: Curious Seed