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…by setting microphones swinging over speakers and recording the resulting phased feedback. Unfortunately Ballet Black do not have the funds for a live performance, and the thumping rhythms are not an easy listen without the visuals… Click the link at the top of this article to read the full article…

…to the night, highlighting the fact that the ballet performed by the company is far from ordinary. Next comes Click!, choreographed by Scottish Ballet Choreographer in Residence, Sophie Laplane. Vibrant in style, Click! is full of flare. The five dancers – led by Isabela Coracy – move to the clicks…

…of human beings struggling to survive. The net effect is impressive if also a touch heavy-handed and worthy. The other new ballet is in total contrast. CLICK!, by the moonlighting Scottish Ballet dancer Sophie Laplane, is a light-hearted crowd-pleaser with nothing more on its mind than playing with the literally…

…balanced by two zingier preludes. First there’s Martin Lawrance’s short but satisfying duet Pendulum, which swings between contemporary styling and clean classical steps, wary confrontation and intimate pas de deux. Dancers Ichikawa and November face off against each other with grace. Click!, a premiere from the talented Sophie Laplane, former…

…ability to hybridise dance forms. Click!, Laplane’s episodic exploration of the gestural meanings of clicking the fingers, is both groovy and tender. With the dancers dressed in bright suits and lit with coloured spotlights, Click! has a distinctly 80s feel to it. While Ebony Thomas and Marie Astrid Mence’s duet…

…in Sophie Laplane’s CLICK! (2019) is on shoulders, arms and hips. To complement the movement style, designer Yann Seabra clothes the dancers in suits: pink, red and yellow for the three women, grey for the two men. This and spot-lit, 1970s-like poses make for an initial impact, but in subsequent…

…Glasgow’s Tramway on Friday… Click the link above to read the full review on the Bachtrack website …A Dream Within A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a fantastic, comedic festival of surreal fun. While The Suit is more serious, the dancers give an impressively emotional performance. Both works are well-executed, and…

…ensnaring a white-collar couple embodied by Cira Robinson and José Alves. She has a lover (Mthuthuzeli November). Her husband finds out. Male shock and rage lead to a cold, symbolic revenge, with the woman essentially cast as the victim of… click on the link above to read the full review…

…Swan Lake or Nutcracker), artistic director Cassa Pancho has instead focused on commissioning works by choreographers such as Richard Alston and Javier De Frutos. The result is bold, brave programming that consistently challenges – if not always satisfies – audiences. click on the link above to view the full review…

…commissioning clever small-scale works (40 so far). The latest double bill opens with The Suit by Cathy Marston based on Can Themba’s 1963 short story about a wronged husband who torments his wife with the single-breasted souvenir that her lover has left behind… click the link above to view the…