Saw a performance by the Candoco Dance Company at Tramway, Glasgow tonight. Very informal, deceptively so, a group of dancers, different ages and levels of ability/disability, all very casually dressed, moving and interacting to familiar pop songs orchestrated by DJ at front of stage.
I enjoyed the music and the warmth of the people on stage,l and their direct relation to the audience. Like much contemporary art, the audience created the meaning as well as the performers. At the beginning the DJ played several tracks with a darkened stage, and I wondered if it was going to entirely audience-generated. But no.. They were performing a piece, The Show Must Go On 2, by Jerome Bel a French choreographer of non-dance. Today they were in public discussion at Tramway. Unfortunately I could not go.
Also made a quick visit to the Hidden Gardens, a site behind Tramway which was landscaped in 2003. It looks so different now, everything has grown, a lovely mixture of planting, some wild flowers, some cultivated. There are some links to the local Muslim community, and the mosque is just behind this site.
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