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Festival Venue 22 2014 the Home of Dance FESTIVAL VENUE 22 2014 THE HOME OF DANCE VENUE 22 THE HOME OF DANCE WELCOME Dance Base is The Home of Dance on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. If you want to see great dance, then Venue 22 is your destination. In programming this year’s festival, we’ve been on a quest to show you the best: the strange and the gorgeous, the brash and the wistful, the graceful and the wild … but always the best. The result is an excellent international programme from New Zealand , Ireland , America , Poland , Taiwan , Italy , Wales and local heroes from bonnie Scotland . This programme is packed with total scoops such as top Scottish Ballet dancers making a rare appearance on the Fringe, performing live in our intimate space and award-winning shows such as Athletes by Riccardo Buscarini / Tir Danza (p9), Swing by Fishamble (p25), and Missing by David Bolger , brought to Edinburgh by CoisCéim (p21). There’s family fun to be had too, in family shows Taki Māori Haka Experience (p7) and The Cut Tuk Show and The Wonders of the Universe (p11). If your tastes tend towards the excitations of the dark side you won’t want to miss Will (p39), Salon Mika (p29) or our Polish guests Agata Maszkiewicz (p17) and Anna Nowicka (p19). There’s so much more. It’s all here, and it’s all for you. Morag Deyes MBE, Artistic Director 0131 225 5525 I dancebase.co.uk page 3 Scotland GREEN T EA AND ZEN BAKA David WW Johnstone Ease into your festival day in the 1 – 24 Aug garden with a refreshing cup of green tea and a mesmerising Zen-inspired 10.15 I 30 mins I 12+ performance by minimal artist Free (ticketed) David WW Johnstone. This visual haiku draws on ideas from Japanese This is an outdoor performance Butoh, the Zen Buddhist sages, and in the Dance Base Garden John Cage, with just a gentle hint of mime and humour thrown in. An understated insight into the daydreaming mind of a Zen fool (baka). Johnstone’s previous work as artistic director of Lazzi includes Aurora Borealis (Dance Base), Oresteia (Traverse) and Witkacy Idiota (Roxy Art House). ‘a sheer joy’ Joyce McMillan on Witkacy Idiota , Scotsman PERFORMANCE DAYS NON PERFORMANCE DAYS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F F F 0131 225 5525 I dancebase.co.uk page 5 New Zealand TAKI MAORI HAKA EXPER IENCE Taki Māori The Rhythm of New Zealand: pulse, 1 – 24 Aug beat, chant, stamp, and clap at this 12.00 I 45 mins I U this pop-up haka tribal experience from Auckland, New Zealand. A Family friendly masterpiece in storytelling, unique 1 Aug £8 (£6 conc) and moving, experience the action thrills of Māori arts. Travel with us 2 – 3 Aug £8 (£6 conc) on a journey through the South Family ticket £24 for 4 Seas revealing authentic haka 5 – 24 Aug £10 (£8 conc) (dance), waiata (song), moteatea Family ticket £32 for 4 (poetry), tu taua (weaponry), Brush up your Haka! whaikorero (oratory) and much Join us for a workshop for more. The whole family can get all the family see page 42 involved: get your shoes off, stomp the haka with Taki Māori! Fun family show with audience participation! PERFORMANCE DAYS NON PERFORMANCE DAYS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F F F 0131 225 5525 I dancebase.co.uk page 7 image: Benedict Johnson Italy ATHL ETES Riccardo Buscarini / Tir Danza Athletes is a work on competition 1 – 17 Aug viewed as tension between man and machine. Three enigmatic figures 13.00 I 25 mins I 12+ shift from solidarity to cruelty in a 1 – 3 Aug £8 (£6 conc) sparsely beautiful futuristic landscape 5 – 17 Aug £10 (£8 conc) created by the stark, atmospheric lighting of Lucy Hansom and Michael Mannion. The striking costumes were created by fashion designer Brooke Roberts in collaboration with Kishan Maynard-Clarke. “I wanted to create a dark piece using brightness, to build an engine using bodies, to show hate using love. In Athletes things constantly transform into their opposite.” Riccardo Buscarini Winner of The Place PERFORMANCE DAYS Prize for Dance 2013 NON PERFORMANCE DAYS Sponsored by Bloomberg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S 0131 225 5525 I dancebase.co.uk page 9 DOUBLE BILL Italy / Wales THE C UT TUK SHOW & WONDERS OF THE UNIVE RSE Naturalis Labor / Martina Cortelazzo & Karol Cysewski Close-up encounters of the silly kind. 1 – 17 Aug Take one award-winning Italian chef in a bikini, then add an adventure into 14.00 I 45 mins I PG the entire universe with three nice Family friendly Welsh boys while listening to über-geek Professor Brian Cox’s 1 – 3 Aug £8 (£6 conc) Family ticket £24 for 4 dulcet tones. Martina the chef in The Cut Tuk Show whips up a 5 – 17 Aug £10 (£8 conc) delicious little something live Family ticket £32 for 4 onstage ... is she cooking or dancing? Wonders of the Universe is a hilariously surreal mash-up inspired by the documentary of the same name. You will ponder tiny things, human-sized things and things the size of the entire universe! PERFORMANCE DAYS NON PERFORMANCE DAYS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S 0131 225 5525 I dancebase.co.uk page 11 image: Andy Ross DOUBLE BILL USA / Scotland iWITNESS & SPECIAL EDITION VTDance / Scottish Ballet Dancers A thrilling double: your chance to see 1 – 17 Aug dancers from Scottish Ballet on the Fringe 15.00 I 60 mins I PG and an exclusive cut of a brilliant dance piece by VTDance. Four brand new works 1 – 3 Aug £8 (£6 conc) will be presented over two weeks, created 5 – 17 Aug £10 (£8 conc) and danced by exquisite dancers from 1 – 10 Aug Scotland’s acclaimed national company: iWitness by VTDance Special Edition appears straight from the Broken Ice by Hope Muir ballet studios! Vincent E Thomas/VTDance Sink In by Sophie Laplane contemplates acts of humanity in the deeply 12 – 17 Aug moving, multi-layered work, iWitness. This iWitness by VTDance solo explores simple and implied truths Stabat Mater by Constant Vigier in human behaviour, investigates the elEven by Eve Mutso distorting effects of media on the human spirit and considers a hopeful tomorrow. PERFORMANCE DAYS NON PERFORMANCE DAYS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S 0131 225 5525 I dancebase.co.uk page 13 Wales 147 QU ESTIONS ABO UT LOVE Volcano Theatre He mostly talks. She mostly dances. An 1 – 17 Aug intimate, charming, absurd conversation 15.45 I 45 mins I 12+ between a man, a woman and an audience. Get up close and personal 1 – 3 Aug £8 (£6 conc) with this unusual and tender duet, 5 – 17 Aug £10 (£8 conc) based on a novel made entirely of questions. Are your emotions pure? Are your nerves adjustable? How do you stand in relation to the potato? Was your father an outright bastard, a medium bastard or a light bastard? Do you find these questions interesting, impertinent or plain impossible? Do you have all the answers or do you only want to ask more questions? PERFORMANCE DAYS NON PERFORMANCE DAYS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S 0131 225 5525 I dancebase.co.uk page 15 image: Vincent Tirmarche Poland POLSKA Agata Maszkiewicz Polska is a shockingly subversive way 1 / 3 / 5 / 7 / 9 Aug to explore that dodgy sympathy and 16.30 I 40 mins I 16+ empathy divide. Introducing a rocking soundtrack that includes Miles Davis 1 & 3 Aug £8 (£6 conc) (Bitches Brew ), Polish folk tunes and 5 / 7 / 9 Aug £10 (£8 conc) The Rolling Stones ( Sympathy for the Contains a short section Devil ), this stunning solo aims to, and of very adult, very dark succeeds in, provoking a visceral gut humour and some twerking! reaction that’s triggered by your own personal and private guilty pleasures. This charismatic performer, in her team Poland sprinter’s sports gear, brings a droll, disgusting and seductive character into the room, using styles as wildly diverse as twerking and folk dancing – all of them with style, grace and major in-your-face attitude. PERFORMANCE DAYS NON PERFORMANCE DAYS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 F S S M T W T F S 0131 225 5525 I dancebase.co.uk page 17 DOUBLE BILL Italy / Poland ELVIS’ STARD UST& THE TR UTH IS J UST A PLAIN P ICTURE, SAID BOB Teatro delle Moire & Anna Nowicka Elvis lives! He has not left the building! 2 / 6 / 8 / 10 Aug Elvis’ Stardust is a short, melancholic rhapsody of small gestures, hidden 16.30 I 50 mins I U glances and distant rhythms.
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