INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES/PRESS
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DHD has just returned from a cold Germany (-22C) where it delivered performances in theatres in Ludwigshaffen and Saarlouis. This project was PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY THE TANJA LIEDTKE FOUNDATION.
www.tanja-liedtke-foundation.org
In April 2013 theatres in Meppen, Schweinfurt and Erfurt will receive works and DHD will also return to Aschaffenburg later in that year.
Weiss Bier und Wurst…..fantastisch!
INTERNATIONAL PRESS
Mannheimer Morgen, Saturday 11 February 2012
- ‘David M. Hughes (after whom the company is named) dances the role of the Faun, giving a performance that evokes Nijinksy…’
- ‘…the way that Hughes dances the choreography is truly spectacular…’
Die Rheinpfalz, Saturday 11 February 2012
- ‘…On its very first appearance in Pfalzbau, David Hughes Dance Company from Edinburgh gave a powerful, eclectic and enthralling performance…’
- ‘…The show kicked off with “Imploded: Une Rêverie Romantique” – a real highlight of the night…’
- ‘…The 6-strong group of dancers including the lead has only existed for 6 years, but the 7 productions it has staged in this time have put it in the spotlight…’
‘THE CHINASKI SESSIONS’ – Autumn Tour 2012
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DHD is excited to announce that it will be working with Lyon based choreographer Kylie Walters in 2012.
THE CHINASKI SESSIONS
With a wink to Charles Bukowski’s cult character Henry Chinaski, choreographer Kylie Walters coaxes six testosterone-crazed men to live through an evening of debauchery and revelation. Trapped in a rock-band’s home studio as they try to finish their new album, this live concert/show collides virtuoso Belgian rock duo I Love Sarah’s (Jeroen Stevens/Rutger De Brabander) scorching math rock with four of Scotland’s best dancers (David Hughes Dance) amongst copious amounts of beer and bravaderie.
On stage, a homemade, squat-style space has been flung together, decked out with a drum kit and the musicians’ instruments.
This place is like a drop-in center, a halfway house for low life to hang out, play, dance, drink and dream – or maybe hallucinate.
Low-fi beginnings become hi-fi horrors as the fine line between recognizable every day reality and bizarre fictive world is trampled.
The rock-den sessions become a playing field for old grievances, one-upmanship and drunken reconciliations.
Vicious drumming, cutting wit and cunning moves form a microcosm of manhood stretching from sex-driven smut to sublime creative insight.
Chiseled beauty from the sweat covered wreckage of the night.
The Chinaski Sessions Tour will take us to the following venues:
OCTOBER
13th: Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
15th: Paisley Arts Centre
17th: Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
19th: Craignish Village Hall
22nd: Blackpool Grand
25th: Aberdeen: Dance Live
26th: Universal Hall, Findhorn
27th: Lyth Arts Centre
29th: Mull Theatre
NOVEMBER
1st: Pavillion Dance, Bournemouth
2nd: Howden Park Centre, Livingston
3rd: Byre Theatre, St. Andrews
6th: Ann Lanntair, Stornoway
8th: Macphail Centre, Ullapool
9th: Arches, Glasgow
10th: Arches, Glasgow
MORE DATES TO COME!!!
BOB COHAN ACCEPTS PATRONAGE ….
DHD is honoured to announce that long-time friend and mentor of David Hughes, Robert Cohan CBE has accepted the invitation to become a patron of the company.
Born in New York in 1925, Robert Cohan trained at the Martha Graham School, and began his professional career in dance when he joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1946. He quickly moved to soloist and then performed throughout the world as a partner to Graham herself. In 1967, at the invitation of Robin Howard, he became the founder Artistic Director of The Place, London Contemporary Dance School and London Contemporary Dance Theatre, which he directed for the next 20 years.
Robert Cohan’s influence on the development of modern dance in Britain has been considerable. Having pioneered the teaching of contemporary dance technique in Britain, he was instrumental in the development of a vast following, not only for the repertory of LCDT in the 70s and 80s but through his pioneering residencies throughout the country, which laid the groundwork for the many other British companies that have grown up in the last twenty tears.
