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DAVID HUGHES DANCE / Image: The Red Room / Photographer: Niall Walker
Image: The Red Room
Photographer: Niall Walker

DAVID HUGHES DANCE

Performance|Contemporary dance|Dance theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
8 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
David Hughes
Associate Artist
Matt Foster

ARTISTIC POLICY
Through commissioning cross-disciplinary works, David Hughes promotes a prominent Scottish Company with international as well as national appeal, a company committed to stepping out of all comfort zones and producing the most honest, authentic work they can. He seeks originality, to re-define the known, to educate, share and learn, to test and challenge. David Hughes continues to encourage thinking, sharing, and demonstration that will inform, enhance, advance, and educate within his own community, and further.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
A versatility rare among British dancers today. Not since the days of Nijinsky and Pavlova has such a starry showcase toured Britain
Scotland on Sunday
David Hughes is widely acknowledged as one of the most gifted contemporary dancers around.
The Guardian
The stage overflowed with diversity…Hughes has struck gold…Atmospheric and unique. Kelly Apter, The Scotsman (The Red Room)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
The Red Room
Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe Masque of the Red Death
55 mins, contains violence and death. 8 on the road
Quadruple Bill
Works by Hughes, Siobhan Davies, Rafael Bonachela and Tanja Liedtke.
55 mins, 8 on road
Maps
Solo works by Chris Bruce, Siobhan Davies, Cesc Gelabert, others tbc.
5 on the road

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Dean Walsh and David Hughes present an international collaboration between Edinburgh and Sydney
Premiere Edinburgh Fringe, August 2010 and Sydney, January 2011. 8 on the road, nature of content tbc.

WRAP-AROUND
Educational outreach programme, professional technique class, lecture demonstrations, post-show talks.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Germany, 4: Freeze-Frame
2007 Germany, L’apres midi d'un Faune

TOURING AVAILABILITY
The Red Room will premiere at Edinburgh Fringe 2009, followed by a short Scottish tour. Both The Red Room and quadruple bill tour from Spring 2010. Solo programme tbc.