Janis Claxton Dance’s highly acclaimed Falling Light tour is coming to an end with only two dates left – Platform, Easterhouse & Dance House WMC Cardiff. This triple bill of emotionally compelling and musically defined dance has been touring Scotland with a cast of 6 dancers and the Edinburgh Quartet
This new work for Janis Claxton Dance, set to Gorecki’s String Quartet no.3 will be developed for the Falling Light tour Autumn 2008 and accompanied by The Edinburgh Quartet.
Winner of a Herald Angel Award 2008, Edinburgh Zoo’s most recent exhibit – Humans! saw Janis Claxton Dance perform inside an animal enclosure revealing an extraordinary display of movement and behavoir exploring the nature of the animal within us all.
A work for women, Sweet Love takes inspiration from the bittersweet tales, and heartfelt lyricism in Appalachian Folk and Country Music, and the personal and universal themes of women’s lives