SDT presents The Life & Times of Girl A, by award winning choreographer Ben Duke (Lost Dog).

A woman is trying to tell us something important about what is happening now. What she needs is a film crew and a financier, what she’s got is a stage and some dancers. An eloquent blend of dance theatre veering between moments of hilarity and exposed vulnerability.

"A piece you could watch again and again" Scotsman; "Cool and quirky" Sunday Herald; "Works a treat" Times Online

Ben Duke on creating on The Life and Times of Girl A

"To my mind dance, can offer a unique moment of connection between people in an audience and people on a stage. And in that moment something can be true and inspiring. I am interested in people dancing, less so in the dance being so brilliant that I lose sight of the individual. It is not impossible to have both, the dancers of SDT dance brilliantly, but what is interesting to me is the attempt to allow that movement to reveal rather than disguise part of them."

SDT is performing at the Fringe as part of Made in Scotland, an initiative to showcase theatre and dance from Scotland supported by the Edinburgh Festivals Expo fund.

 

All images courtesy of Andrew Ross