Nick Cave: Until
Tue - Fri 12 - 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 - 6pm
CLOSED MONDAYS
Tramway presents the first exhibition in Europe of established contemporary artist and activist Nick Cave.
Until, organised by MASS MoCA, Massachusetts and co-produced with Carriageworks, Sydney and Crystal Bridges/The Momentary, Arkansas is Cave’s largest and most ambitious project to date. Cave who lives and works in Chicago is renowned for his Soundsuits, compelling and ornate figurative sculptures that can be worn and performed. An artist whose work has been driven by the social and personal impact of racism for close to three decades, Cave created his first Soundsuit as a form of both camouflage and symbolic body armour, an insulating layer of accumulated materials and meanings.
Cave’s meticulously crafted sculptures feature a sensorial array of found materials often found in craft, kitsch, or folk contexts, while the forms and materiality of the work references craft, kitsch, or folk, while the forms and materiality of the work also evoke the outfits and celebrations of Mardi Gras parades, drag performance, and shamanistic or ritual costumes. Cave has been gathering this material for years ranging from antique toys, ceramic birds, fruit and animals, buttons, festive decorations, pompoms, crochet blankets, gramophones and pony beads.
In Tramway's main gallery, Cave will exhibit a massive immersive installation made up of thousands of found objects which make viewers feel as if they have entered a rich sensory tapestry, akin to stepping directly inside the belly of one of his iconic Soundsuits. Though opulent and celebratory, the exhibition remains firmly connected to the political impetus behind Cave’s ongoing body of work. Until is a space where alluring kinetics and sumptuous materiality gives way to stark images, referencing complex issues of gun violence, racial profiling and gender politics that currently divide the United States of America, and the extension of these matters in communities around the world. As such, Until echoes the function of the Soundsuits, positioning the black body as simultaneously vulnerable and resolutely present.
Until will function as an alternative town hall, becoming a gathering space for community events, performance and discussion throughout the duration of the exhibition. ‘I view this work as an elaborate community forum, as much as a work of sculpture’ notes Cave.
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Until was organised by MASS MoCA, Massachusetts and co-produced with Carriageworks, Sydney and Crystal Bridges/The Momentary, Arkansas. Principle exhibition support was provided by an anonymous gift. Major exhibition support was provided by Jack Shainman Gallery and Beadcraft. Curated by Denise Markonish MASS MoCA and for Tramway by Claire Jackson.
Zinzi Minott: Movement 4 Queers Workshop
Part of Dance International Glasgow (DIG Engage)
Booking through The Work Room/Eventbrite>
In this workshop for self-identified Queer people, Zinzi explores queerness and the queering of moving bodies through dance. The workshop is for a small group of people and is inspired by Zinzi’s practice looking at how dance is perceived through the prisms of race, queer culture, gender and class.
Zinzi Minott’s work focuses on the relationship between dance, bodies and politics. Strongly identifying as a dancer, she seeks to complicate the boundaries of dance and the place of black female bodies within the form. Zinzi is interested in the space between dance and other art forms, and though her practice is driven through dance. The outcomes range from performance and live art to sound, film, dances and object-based work.
In 2016/17 she was artist in residence at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain. During her time there She was commissioned by Tate to create “Nowse Bwoy and Aunty…The saving of a life” which premiered in February 2017 at Tate Britain as part of BP Families Festival with sound from cellist Pete Yelding. She has also been artist in residence at Rich Mix and Dance Research Space 2016/17 and currently resident artist at Somerset House and Once Dance UK Trailblazer. Most recently she has was awarded the Arts Council England’s Artist International Development Fund, Jerwood Micro Bursary and the Live Art UK/ Live Art Development Agency- Diverse Actions Leadership Bursary. She was Artist in Residence at the Serpentine Gallery 2018, and is currently one of two artist commissioned under CONTINUOUS - a four-year partnership between BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead) and Siobhan Davies Dance to explore the relationship between contemporary dance and the visual arts. The work will premier in autumn 2019 at BALTIC, going on to tour in 2020.
DIG presents Katie Armstrong: Sketches
SKETCHES is a series of short intellectually and geographically accessible vignettes set to and inspired by Bach's Violin Concerto in A Minor. The works have been redeveloped into three short films for Dance International Glasgow 2019 through support from Tramway and The Work Room: Moving Out Programme. Each vignette has been redeveloped and filmed in a site specific location, recognisable to anyone who lives in the Southside of Glasgow.
For this project, Katie has collaborated with film artist Stuart Breadner, and dance artists - Millie Thomas, Lucy Ireland, Olivia Roach and Katie Miller.
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A co-commission from Tramway and The Work Room, Moving Out is a new initiative supporting artists to expand their practice through adapting work for public sites and outdoor contexts. MORE>
SPIN: Red Note Ensemble
This event is part of Altered States and Human Threads, a season from the inclusive arts organisation Artlink, devised in response to 'Until', our current exhibition by Nick Cave, and aimed at breaking down barriers of difference through shared experience. It will take place in the gallery.
Inspired by the immersive, intricate landscape of Nick Cave's ‘Until’, Red Note Ensemble will further animate the exhibition with a playful, rich and diverse sound world, interacting with and dynamically informed by the audience. Working to a soundscape specially commissioned for this event, musicians will move freely throughout the space. Like Cave’s glittering Kinetic Spinner Forest, sounds will thread, twine, phase and shift as Red Note’s musicians spontaneously align and respond to both the art and the audience. The audience will be invited to lie on mats provided, or recline, to experience the music from a different, more dreamlike perspective. Open to all.
This event is informed by the interests and insights of individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities who have collaborated with Red Note Ensemble over a number of years.
Suitable for ages 16+
If you require additional info on access to this event please contact Artlink directly.
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Part of Altered States and Human Threads (23 September – 14 October) curated by Artlink (Edinburgh) which aims to unite diverse audiences through immersive experiences. Funded by Creative Scotland.
DIG: Project X-Change (SCT, UK, Nigeria)
Part of Dance International Glasgow, this is an artists' showcase presented by artist collective Project X, and featuring:
Hermes Iyele (Nigeria) presents Path
A journey of/to self-discovery, reinventing what is from what was, Hermes is questioning history, religion and beliefs while focusing on his Orisha. Deconstructing the old to form a new, on this journey there are three steps: The Beginning, The Questioning, Rebirth
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Symoné : UTOPIAN (terms and conditions apply)
Exploring her personal experience living inside a cult. Symoné invites the audience to join her in a journey of altered realities, manipulation of the mind. Told through a multitude of circus skills with influences of American rave culture and ballroom dancing (Voguing). Utopian is a work in progress with direction from Bryn Harris
Christian Noelle Charles : Hustle
A performance study interpreting the experience of being in rehearsal, specifically exposing the structure of how dance and performance is made. Using metronome and voice reciting the counts “5,6,7,8” to represent the concept of practice makes perfect and the hustle, and the concept of burnout that accumulates over the course of rehearsing and when trying to accomplish a goal.
Akrowa UK : Baa Saa Ona
A rainbow of movement, colour & sound to tell stories of their lives in Ghana. They blend the traditional and modern to depict the lives of fishermen, farmers, warriors - exploring themes of unity & spirituality. Adie & Thomas invite you on a journey with them - exploring people, place and community, through their explosive rhythms and energy - a wee moment of Ghanaian movement & musical magic!
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Funded by Tramway and The Work Room
DIG: Gisèle Vienne (FR) | Crowd
Part of Dance International Glasgow
SCOTTISH PREMIERE
The stage is covered in soil and debris. 15 performers move together amidst a chaotic dance party. Euphoric, exhilarated, their movements are masterfully slowed down and stylised, they are a crowd, but each dancer is also an individual with their own narrative. Moments of love and violence, intimacy and aversion emerge amid the collective frenzy. The audience is invited to ‘compose’ their experience of the Crowd by choosing whose unfolding stories they choose to follow, in a piece which explores the relationship between individual and collective emotions. The spectacular and powerful performance is the latest by renowned choreographer Gisèle Vienne.
ACCESS: Both performances will be Audio Described by EJ McHenry. This production is particularly good for Subpacs
Conception, choreography and scenography Gisèle Vienne
Co-producers : Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, Wiener Festwochen, manège, scène nationale – reims, Théâtre national de Bretagne, Centre Dramatique National Orléans, Loiret, Centre, La Filature, Scène nationale – Mulhouse, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen.
Part of FranceDance UK, a UK-wide festival of contemporary Dance presented by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni.*
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Supported by CCN2 – Centre Chorégraphique national de Grenoble, CND Centre national de la danse
The Company Gisèle Vienne is supported by Ministère de la culture et de la communication – DRAC Grand Est, la Région Grand Est and Ville de Strasbourg; and Institut Français for international touring.
Gisèle Vienne is associate artist at the Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national and at the Théâtre National de Bretagne, Direction Arthur Nauzyciel
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*About FranceDance UK
FranceDance UK is a unique contemporary dance festival running from Aug-Nov 2019, during which 16 leading institutions throughout
the UK will host over 50 performances by 14 young and promising French artists. With a focus on creation and innovation, the festival
particularly highlights diversity and the work of women choreographers, many of whom are present in the UK for the first time.
FranceDance UK is supported by the Friends of the French Institute Trust, with particular acknowledgement to Aline Foriel-Destezet
and Stéphanie and Jacques Gabillon.
institute-francais.org.uk/francedanceuk
Trajal Harrel Performance Lecture: Maybe To Spectacle
Part of Dance International Glasgow (DIG Engage)
This event takes place at CCA. Book through CCA>
Trajal Harrell came to contemporary dance world fame with the Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church series of works which theoretically juxtaposed the voguing dance tradition with the early postmodern dance tradition. He is now considered one of the most important choreographers of his generation.
Trajal Harrell, who comes to DIG 19 with the UK premiere of Dancer of the Year, will conduct a lecture seminar that is part lecture and part conversation. Using video and photographs, Harrell will map the trajectory of his aesthetic history beginning with his work on voguing and early postmodern dance and moving on to his more recent work with butoh and modern dance. Short sections of some of the dances will be viewed. The lecture seminar transforms freely between looking, listening, and talking as interests and questions arise from being in the room together.
DIG: Robbie Synge (SCT) and Lucy Boyes | Ensemble
Part of Dance International Glasgow
Ensemble takes place at CCA. Tickets available from their website>
Ensemble is a joyous expression of togetherness involving five performers in their 30s-70s.
Join the group on a journey that lays bare their strengths, efforts and possibilities together for an uplifting and surprising piece that challenges expectations of age in performance.
The result of the group’s work over a six-year period, Ensemble has built a friendship and understanding which is reflected in tightly coordinated choreography, daring acrobatics and precarious balances.
‘a quietly radical space where bodies come together to transmit joy, lightness and an authenticity that is infectious and demonstrates how different bodies can tell a different story.’
(Ian Abbott at Dublin Dance Festival 2019)
ACCESS: This is an Audio Described performance with a Touch Tour
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Created in association with Dance Base and Eden Court with support of Lyth Arts Centre and Yorkshire Dance. Robbie Synge and Lucy Boyes are Aerowaves Twenty19 artists with Ensemble.
James Batchelor workshop
Part of Dance International Glasgow (DIG Engage)
Booking through The Work Room/Eventbrite>
Ticket includes a performance ticket for James Batchelor’s HYPERSPACE on Friday 18 October.
This workshop, led by Australian Choreographer James Batchelor, will experiment with how the body can map space. Since his involvement on an expedition to sub-Antarctic Heard and McDonald Islands in 2016, James has been questioning how the body senses, measures and maps the unknown. This was the experience that led to the development of the performances HYPERSPACE and DEEPSPACE by James Batchelor and Collaborators, both presented in Glasgow for DIG 19.
The workshop will introduce participants to James Batchelor’s approach to movement through a series of open-ended scores for improvisation from the performance. This will be supported by discussions, reading, writing and drawing. The focus will be on sharing creative tools and discovering the potential within the micro-world of the body.
DIG: Trajal Harrell (US)| Dancer of the Year
Part of Dance International Glasgow
UK premiere
“It’s one thing to be named Dancer of the Year, it’s something entirely different to try and make something of it.”
Trajal Harrell, who came to contemporary dance fame with his Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church Series, ventures into a full-length solo project for the first time in a while. The point of departure is a personal one: Harrell’s selection as ‘Dancer of the Year’ by Tanz magazine in 2018 and the reflection on (self) worth which this triggered. With this project, Harrell focuses attention on (self) representation. He confronts his singularity and aesthetic with the eponymous honorary title and reflects on what he means to dance and what dance means to him. Here, he updates his legacy and what he hopes to leave behind for history not only as a choreographer but as a dancer.
Choreographed and Performed Trajal Harrell
Costumes and Sound Design Trajal Harrell
Dramaturg Sara Jansen
Trajal Harrell will deliver a Performance lecture at the CCA on Thu 17 October.
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Co- Producers: Kunstenfestival des Arts, Festival d’Automne, Lafayette Anticipation, Impulstanz Festival (Vienna), Bit Theatergarasjen (Bergen), Schauspielhaus Bochum, Museum Ludwig (Cologne) and Dampfzentrale (Bern)