Review: The Violet Hour, at the DIG festival, is a real 'wow' show
Dance
The Violet Hour
DIG at Tramway, Glasgow
Mary Brennan
four stars
Twilight…when tricks of the altering light can make you question what you see. Or what you think you see. This slippage between what's real, and what randomly exists in your mind's eye, is one of the fascinating undercurrents in Colette Sadler's latest dance-work, The Violet Hour, seen - for one night only - at this year's DIG.
Three dancers - Leah Marojevic, Samir Kennedy and Maëva Barthelot - bring Sadler's mesh of intriguing concepts before us with an unflagging devotion to detail that is simply astounding. At first, all three are 'marooned' on a narrow downstage dias - bodies close but, as yet, not touching. Marojevic is the first to step down and slowly test out the unknown terrain - a projection of an arid landscape at sunrise is the backdrop to her gradual discovery of how her own body behaves, stretching and balancing as the day fades into night.
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