Heya everyone!
Hey look, its Edinburgh season. I thought I’d go through the programme and see what jumps out that you may not be on your radar.
Enjoy!
Selective Memory by Todd Simmons
from £5
from 14th August
In Jamaican Sound System culture, the ‘Selector’ picks what record to play at a party, or sound clash. Selective Memory is an interactive DJ set where audience members become the Selectors choosing records from Todd’s collection. He, in-turn, shares the deeply personal stories that reside within the vinyl.
presented by ZooTV X Ian Abbott
Heat by Kari Hoaas Productions
from £5
available now
The project HEAT seeks to merge the lines seperating concert dance and social dance, highart and popular cultures, in a quest to promote the power and the pleasure of physical effort, and the simple joy of moving our bodies to rythm together. Aiming for the extatic, the work offers audiences a unique immersive group experience.
Now I see that I will never find the light unless like the candle I am my own fuel consuming myself.– Bruce Lee
Merging concert dance and social dance; high-art and popular cultures; HEAT is an ongoing performance practice, that changes and evolves with each new performance and venue, offering audiences a poetic journey from quite contemplation to an extatic group dance experience. Created in response to the emotional fallout the looming threats of democratic system collapse and climate change create, the work seeks to promote joy as an engine of collective change.
Choreographer Kari Hoaas and her core group of eminent dancers, DJs and designers engage local artistic communities to take part in the project to transform a post apocalyptic performance installation into a participatory dance party. By creating a unique performance experience grounded in local artistic communities at each place the project visits, HEAT proposes an alternative to the traditional company touring model, seeking new ways to meet the challenges of a more sustainable international model of performance exchange.
Prison Game by Hercules Production
£8
available now
When prison is your world, how do you function within society? This gripping and, at times, chilling one-man physical theatre performance is the story of how prison can define a man. Developed using real life accounts of extraordinary experiences, this mainly biographical story deals with the effects of institutionalisation on the psyche of an individual and the people around them. Told through a series of characters (brought to life by the physical dynamism of Marcus Hercules), you are taken on a young boy's journey from primary school through to adulthood.
£10
Available now
Shôn Dale-Jones' new show was going to be all about love. But what do you do when you're writing a show all about love, and everything goes dark? You find a new story. A story with scones after midnight, family WhatsApp groups and Grandmaster Flash.
Possible is a playful, honest and heartfelt piece of theatre that combines storytelling with original music, animation and film. It's a show about love, connection and finding the courage to explore the past, in order to shape the future.
Grin by Mele Broomes and collaborators feat. Divine Tasinda and Kemono L.Riot
£4-£7
13th August until 29th August
Grin, a digital fruition of performance, sound, visuals and choreography which subverts hyper sexualised notions of African and Caribbean dance. Grin is a masquerade of dance sculptures where body and costume are accompanied by a pulsating sound score. Conversation around community-building, refusals, friendship and support grounds the development of Grin, which both holds and is held by, a cohort of friends. Grin’s significant focus on black love and other experiences of interiority feels essential in considering how we can build empathy and reconstitute networks of solidarity
£12
Aalaapi is a hybrid project combining both theatre and radio. Over 8 months, five young Inuit women from Northern Quebec have accepted to speak about their lives by means of a radio documentary, a piece sculpted through their own words and silences. On stage, two other Inuit women spend a day together while the documentary plays on their radio. And they do, at some point, need to challenge it. Through this multisensory piece, the audience gets immersed in Quebec's nordic communities and they are invited to an authentic encounter through the art of listening.
Thanks again for reading and see you next week!