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Sonata For A Man And A Boy, Traverse, Edinburgh The Intoxicating Rose Garden, Traverse, Edinburgh Poetic inspiration

Neither of these events delivers dance in any conventional sense.

Instead, we're taken inside a process where the making of music creates a physicality beyond sound and spills over into movement or – as in the case of The Intoxicating Rose Garden – calligraphy, animation and film. Here, the initial inspiration was poetry. The words of 14th-century Persian poet Hafez were morphed into delicately ornate calligraphic forms by artist/translator Jila Peacock. Her "shape poems" prompted lyrical responses from composer Sally Beamish, and her music – for flute, harp, trumpet and cello – has now become the live springboard for a richly textured performance that intoxicates with its juxtapositions and complexities.

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