_1636 'Pioneers of Performance' Robert Synge and Anna Krystek "Pioneers of Performance is a day long festival of thought-provoking, lively and fun performance and dance theatre, created by independent artists working in Scotland. The shows have been chosen based on their outstanding quality and broad appeal - this really is the best work of its kind.\n\nThere\u2019s something for all age groups, with a show for young children before lunch, older children in the afternoon, and two shows for adults in the evening. Make the most of it by taking the kids along by day and returning at night with a friend. Enjoy!\n\nCome along between 6pm and 6.30pm for an informal discussion about dance and its development in the area. Refreshments wil be provided.\n\nWe start the main evening at 6.50 with an introduction from the dance Director. This is followed by 2 pieces:\n\n7 pm Robbie Synge: 'Douglas'\n\n45mins | Age guide: suitable for all\n\nDouglas is a solo performance that stems from actions imagined by Robbie Synge while working and performing various daily tasks, indoors and outdoors, at home in The Highlands.\n\nOne man interacts, through movement, with a roomful of everyday objects, and a kind of human, environmental and psychological ecology emerges. Can body become thing and thing become body? Sharing the spotlight with inanimate materials, this is a world of the untypically grand and the beautifully unspectacular.\n\nDouglas is curious, committed and absorbed in his activity. He seeks connections and feedback from his surroundings - conversations that go nowhere and everywhere.\n\n\u2018edges from bravura tricksiness to something unexpectedly affecting, bordering on the cataclysmic even.\u2019 HERALD\n\n\u2018Excellent... humorous, engaging\u2019 EXAMINER\n\n7.45 interval and films\n\n8.30pm Anna Krzystek: 'Face One'\n\n60mins | Age guide: 16+\n\nIn this multimedia piece, a lone figure is waiting. At once both immediate and distant, she appears in relation to the time, space, sounds, objects & filmed images that surround her.\n\nA vivid soundscore, minimal monochrome video and choreographed motifs all juxtapose with each other, inviting the viewer to experience a sublime state of intimacy as the figure connects to the sequence of changing situations.\n\n\u2018Krzystek\u2019s total immersion in the physicality and intention of every nuance is like a magnet... The wonderment at her technical prowess and the scope of the material kicks in afterwards \u2013 and, believe me, that impact doesn\u2019t fade with the years.\u2019\n\nHERALD\n\n\u2018exceptional, radical talent... No-one in Scotland, or the UK for that matter, originates work like this\u2019 HERALD on Trilogy\n\nWatch some of their work on https:\/\/vimeo.com\/137472855" Performance Dance "Pioneers of Performance is a day long festival of thought-provoking, lively and fun performance and dance theatre, created by independent artists working in Scotland. The shows have been chosen based on their outstanding quality and broad appeal - this really is the best work of its kind.\n\nThere\u2019s something for all age groups, with a show for young children before lunch, older children in the afternoon, and two shows for adults in the evening. Make the most of it by taking the kids along by day and returning at night with a friend. Enjoy!\n\nCome along between 6pm and 6.30pm for an informal discussion about dance and its development in the area. Refreshments wil be provided.\n\nWe start the main evening at 6.50 with an introduction from the dance Director. This is followed by 2 pieces:\n\n7 pm Robbie Synge: 'Douglas'\n\n45mins | Age guide: suitable for all\n\nDouglas is a solo performance that stems from actions imagined by Robbie Synge while working and performing various daily tasks, indoors and outdoors, at home in The Highlands.\n\nOne man interacts, through movement, with a roomful of everyday objects, and a kind of human, environmental and psychological ecology emerges. Can body become thing and thing become body? Sharing the spotlight with inanimate materials, this is a world of the untypically grand and the beautifully unspectacular.\n\nDouglas is curious, committed and absorbed in his activity. He seeks connections and feedback from his surroundings - conversations that go nowhere and everywhere.\n\n\u2018edges from bravura tricksiness to something unexpectedly affecting, bordering on the cataclysmic even.\u2019 HERALD\n\n\u2018Excellent... humorous, engaging\u2019 EXAMINER\n\n7.45 interval and films\n\n8.30pm Anna Krzystek: 'Face One'\n\n60mins | Age guide: 16+\n\nIn this multimedia piece, a lone figure is waiting. At once both immediate and distant, she appears in relation to the time, space, sounds, objects & filmed images that surround her.\n\nA vivid soundscore, minimal monochrome video and choreographed motifs all juxtapose with each other, inviting the viewer to experience a sublime state of intimacy as the figure connects to the sequence of changing situations.\n\n\u2018Krzystek\u2019s total immersion in the physicality and intention of every nuance is like a magnet... The wonderment at her technical prowess and the scope of the material kicks in afterwards \u2013 and, believe me, that impact doesn\u2019t fade with the years.\u2019\n\nHERALD\n\n\u2018exceptional, radical talent... No-one in Scotland, or the UK for that matter, originates work like this\u2019 HERALD on Trilogy\n\nWatch some of their work on https:\/\/vimeo.com\/137472855" 57.086430621903496 -5.880611272552528