Scottish Dance Theatre - Autumn Tour 2005

Fresh from a successful run at this year's Fringe (where they won a Herald Angel award), Scottish Dance Theatre is back on tour with a new repertoire of dynamic, diverse and utterly original dance theatre.

The Autumn Tour opened at home at Dundee Rep on Thursday 15 September 2005, to a sell-out event.

The new tour features brand new work by internationally renowned Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta, and revisits Artistic Director Janet Smith's 'Forty Minutes', Liv Lorent's 'LUXURIA' and Michael Popper's 'In fact you can keep a good dog down, but the dog - not knowing this - will keep trying to get up'.

Rui Horta's 'Mute' premiered internationally at Festival de Sintra in Portugal in July to packed houses, standing ovations and critical acclaim and had its UK premiere at the Dundee Rep on Thursday 15 September 2005. This is the second time Rui has worked with SDT - the company performed his duet 'Broken' in Autumn 2003 ('near perfect' said the Sunday Herald, 'a smouldering choreographic short' said Dance Europe). Rui is based in Portugal and has created works for other groups such as Ballet Gulbenkian, Cullberg Ballet, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Icelandic Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater II, Ballet National de Marseille and Phoenix Dance Theatre.

'Mute' is an intensely physical and powerful piece that looks at the tension created by secrets, lies, past guilt and present betrayal - the things that can never be spoken and should never be spoken. The company will also perform Artistic Director Janet Smith's 'Forty Minutes' ('alive with excitement, wit and invention' - The Stage), which premiered in Autumn 2004.

Janet has created five works for SDT over her 9 years as Artistic Director of the company and this is her first work since choreographing the well-received and highly regarded High Land in 2001.

Forty Minutes is a quirky and reflective work that examines the search for lost identity and asks 'Who am I?' With a melodic original score by composer Chris Benstead and imagery by video artist Pernille Spence, Forty Minutes is a curious look at our personal journeys.