A LOT of social history has been scuffed into the old wooden floor at Barrowland.
A LOT of social history has been scuffed into the old wooden floor at Barrowland.
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Recent years have seen the famed dance hall shift gears to become a venue for music gigs, but nothing quite like the Barrowlands Project has set foot in the space before.
Described as a "landmark dance event for Glasgow" – with funding partnerships marking the shift of sporting and cultural focus from London 2012 to Glasgow 2014 – the performance opened with massed ranks of locally recruited volunteers sweeping through moves choreographed by Michael Clark and ended with a body of kilted pipers delivering a mischievous, but unexpectedly gorgeous arrangement of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep that had to be heard to be believed. And in the middle, Clark's own company filled the space with sequences to music by Scritti Politti, Relaxed Muscle and Bowie that hopefully will emerge at the Tramway in October as part of the new work being premiered there.
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