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<small>Bird Song</small>

Press Release

Bird Song as you've never heard it before...

The UK's leading independent dance company, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, takes off this weekend to tour Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales (Until 14 May).

Get a taste and find out more by visiting their eTrailer at www.dekretser.com/efliers/birdsong/birdsong.asp?eid=bsWWDUK

Siobhan Davies Dance Company's new production, Bird Song, is the company's second major work to bring the audience strikingly close to the dancers and is presented 'in the round'.

Award winning choreographer Siobhan Davies has worked with visual artist David Ward and sound score composer Andy Pink to create an extraordinary sensory experience as film, light and video sweep across the dancers to the accompaniment of an intriguing sound score. Bird Song draws on over one hundred different sound sources as inspiration, from classical to jazz and baroque to digital samplings. At the heart of the piece is the first sound to initiate the process: the song of the Australian Pied Butcher Bird.

Intense, intimate, world-class, award winning dance.

Siobhan Davies Dance Company will be touring again in the Autumn. Full details will be available in the summer. Please sign up using the form at the end of the trailer if you would like to receive information.

Here's the link to the Siobhan Davies Dance Company website:

http://www.sddc.org.uk/

Tour Dates

2 & 3 April
Island Arts Centre,
Lisburn, Northern Ireland
028 92 509 254

7 April
Millennium Forum,
Derry, Northern Ireland
028 7126 4455

15 – 17 April
Royal Northern College of Music,
Manchester
0161 907 5555
Post performance talk with Siobhan Davies on 16th April

28 – 30 April
Traverse Theatre,
Edinburgh
0131 228 1404
Post performance talk with Siobhan Davies on 29th April

6-9 May
Salts Mill,
Saltaire
01274 587 377

13 & 14 May
Aberystwyth Arts Centre,
Aberystwyth
01970 62 32 32
Pre performance talk with Siobhan Davies 6.45pm 14th May

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Light on their feet
From The Stage

XL Video is supplying projectors to the Siobhan Davies Dance Company for its Birdsong work, which has started the first leg of its UK tour. Two Barco G5 video projectors are being used for overhead light, rigged pointing vertically downwards via special brackets made by XL.

Described as a mixed media work that integrates light and sound alongside movement, Birdsong includes a 70-minute soundscape composed by Andy Pink, while artist David Ward was commissioned to produce special video artwork, further developing ideas of light for the work.

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Bird Song is more frenetic, fascinating and long. Enhanced by a twitchy, avian style of movement, the dancers’ impressive discipline, meticulous choreography, this piece conveys the ethos of abstract beauty rather than sensuality. The music: a jazzy electronic collage based on the Pied Butcher bird, is very reminiscent of a flock’s skittish behavior.



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