Tenderhooks And Missiles! Returns To The Lowry

Scotland’s leading dance theatre company, Scottish Dance Theatre, returns to THE LOWRY with an exciting new season and plenty of reasons to celebrate – 10 years with Artistic Director Janet Smith at the helm, the company’s 21st birthday and a brand new programme of NEW AND ORIGINAL dance theatre!

The performance will feature the stunning tenderhook by Liv Lorent (‘exquisite...a feast for the senses’ The Herald) as well as the powerful Sorry for the Missiles! by Vanessa Haska and Second Storm by Czech choreographer and SDT dancer Michal Zahora.

This is the first time any of the three works will be performed at The Lowry.

tenderhook is Liv Lorent’s second work for SDT – the first being the much-loved, critically acclaimed LUXURIA which won a Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005 and fast became one of the company’s signature pieces.

Fresh from a successful run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Sorry for the Missiles! is a gripping piece of theatrical dance that excites, entertains and is ultimately moving. ‘a brilliantly expressive and moving piece of dance theatre examining the impact of war on individuals' lives’, Scotland on Sunday.

Michal Zahora’s trio Second Storm is a co-commission between SDT and Nanohach dance theatre company (www.nanohach.cz) made collaboratively on 3 SDT dancers and 3 Nanohach dancers. Potent and mesmeric like an ancient rite of passage, Second Storm will be performed by SDT throughout the UK and in the Czech Republic by Nanohach.

Scottish Dance Theatre is one of a handful of UK dance companies to regularly commission, produce and tour new work – in the last 10 years, the company has commissioned a phenomenal 33 NEW WORKS from Janet Smith as well as a slew of British and international choreographers. Major achievements in Janet’s 10 year tenure include winning the Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Company Repertoire in 2003, the growth from 3 full time to 21 full time staff, our state-of-the-art £1 million+ lottery funded dance studio at Dundee Rep Theatre and the company’s increasing international profile.

SDT’s performs at The Lowry on Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd November @ 8pm
Then on tour throughout the UK - check www.scottishdancetheatre.com for details.