Songs Are Sung
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Janis Claxton Dance’s latest work set to Gorecki’s String Quartet no.3, accompanied by the Edinburgh Quartet was the signature piece for the company’s 2008 tour Falling Light
“a passionate work that heralds Claxton as a force to be reckoned with” The Scotsman
- Songs Are Sung
- 2008
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This piece for 6 women was researched with a commission from Citymoves. and residencies at Citymoves, Dance Base and Dance House and completed for the Falling Light Tour.
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Reviews
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The Scotsman“Most impressive of all, though, was the exquisite use of Gorecki’s emotive score. The dancers gave 100 per cent in a display of grief, torment, comfort and support. Tight synchronicity, athletic tumbles and delicate phrasing conspired to create a passionate work that heralds Claxton as a force to be reckoned with.”
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Dance Europe“At once dark and transparent, stringent and lush, this exquisite piece carries an ecstatic weight. Claxton is tirelessly sensitive to the tensions between the soothing and the neurotic, taking time to explore and reflect the music’s depths and complexities without sacrificing dramatic urgency. Sober, centred and sublime, her work generates a quiet but increasing excitement.....The spiritual quality of their collective performance is cumulatively so moving that you can’t help but wonder what Claxton might do with bigger stages and more bodies (and some of them male). Donald Hutera”
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The Herald““Songs Are Sung, a lovely, elegiac response to Gorecki’s recently released String Quartet No 3. Played live, with spirited caring, by the Edinburgh Quartet the score saw Claxton and her all-female company mark out episodes of patient waiting, anguished yearnings and wretched, wrenching despair. Yet there was also supportiveness, resilience, as bodies fell, curled into themselves, rose again, which spoke of life force and renewal.”
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