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lbrox tube station has seen some goings on, but never beiore a set oi iemale Krishnas on skateboards, or a dance at seven tight-skirted lesbians swaying beiore a bemused audience who are obviously wondering what Govan will bring.
Glasgow Independent Dance's Underground Project is a 1-hour train journey beneath the streets 01 Glasgow, which translorms tube platiorms irom quiet, toot-tapping, eye-diverting areas, to obstacle courses bursting with bouncy pigtailed children, chased by nannies on acid. The audience is chaperoned by an oversize black shiny mac into the string at small orange capsules, each like some Sartrean hell, pumped iull ol noise and giggly bewilderment. At each oi the tour stops, there is a chance to disembark onto the platiorm itseli,
and to move as close to or as iar away irom the action as is desired. Never mind the ice cream, give us some space, man.
ChoreographerJacob Marley's creation is certainly challenging in terms oi venue, lorcing the audience to
‘ gauge one anoiher’s reactions at close
range, and to conlront the energy oi the periormance iace on. However, the sense oi novelty all too quickly
3 dissolves; the raised eyebrows coupled ; with shrugging shoulders. What begins : as an exciting, ii disconcerting
experience gradually begins to look like an on-set view at an Ultravox
3 video. There was a ieeling that there i was something missing; something
more than that iamiliar dating agency ad — ‘Are you sitting beside your ideal partner?’ (Kathleen Morgan).
Underground Project, Glasgow Independent Dance, Sundays: 9, 16, 23 and 30 Sept, 7.45pm and 9.15pm. ciao/£3.50.
mam— LOVE AND LONGING
For all the passion inherent in the title, the Scottish Ballet's opening sequence oi its three Ballets oi Love and Longing, seems initially to wilt. The Iirst movement, ‘Forgotten Land', choreographed by Prague born Jiri Kylian, is an exploration oi well worn images oi land surrendering itsell to a commanding sea. Male and lemale bodies entangle, assimilate and are torn apart by a maritime energy, which lunges to the jarring chords oi Benjamin Britten’s Sintonia Da Requiem. Waves, birds and thrashing symbols, but surprisingly little momentum.
Although more conventional in content, the successive movements are lar more inspiring. A labyrinth oi deception and longing, bounded by the constraint oi social convention is
created in Antony Tudor’s ‘Jardin Aux
= Lilas', set on the eve oi a iarewell party
preceeding a marriage oi convenience. The elegance oi restrained passion and the energy at jealousy are beautiiully conveyed by Elspeth Shaw and Kevin J. Horn, as the irustrated lovers. Gregory Squire’s solo periormance oi Chausson’s ‘Poeme', provides the essence oi enchantment in a lairy-tale world suitable Ior the sweet toothed. Finally, a least 01 medieval mayhem is created irom a Russian romance novel in Marcius Petipa's ‘Raymonda, Act III'. In a series oi colouriul variations, classical ballet is combined
with Russian national dance, iusing the 3
elegence oi the iirst with the energy at the second.
An evening oi romance, with a polite climax, the Scottish Ballet iirmly and entertainingly, removes the ‘Iust' irom Longing. (Kathleen Morgan).
Ballets oi Love and Longing, The Scottish Ballet, 7-15 Sept.
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