The Violet Hour by Colette Sadler 

Inspired by the effects of the natural world on the imaginative subconscious, The Violet Hour is a new dance work set within a dark and mutable landscape, materializing like a shifting apparition from the beginning or end of time.   

Through a series of choreographic episodes shaped by an uncanny coalescence of movement, song, and digital imagery, The Violet Hour is about the subversive potential of striving for a state of transformative hybridity with the elusive idea of nature. Moving between real and digital realms, it proposes a surreal exploration of the relationship between humans and our surroundings, stretching the notion of how we are both influenced by and implicated in the changing ecologies around us.   

In an increasingly precarious world, The Violet Hour proposes a defiant convergence with the frequencies that exist between the landscape around us and the inner landscape of the imagination.  

Double Bill Performance "The Violet Hour“ and "Conversations with Eve"– ticket price includes both performances.

Access 

V: Highly Visual / No or Little Text

TT: Touch Tour Box available

The Violet Hour creative team 

Artistic Direction and Choreography Colette Sadler
Performance Leah Marojevic, Samir Kennedy and Maëva Barthelot
Set and Lighting concept Veli-Ville Siven
Video Design Alexander Pannier
Lighting Design Benny Goodman
Sound Design Samir Kennedy
Object Design  Zephyr Liddell
Fabrication Ben Ashton, Catriona Carlton, Anna Orton, Barbra Kolasinski and Jen Kilgour.
Dramaturgy Maxwell McCarthy
Produced by Feral (Kathryn Boyle & Jill Smith)
Production Assistance Kim Walz 
Choreographic Assistance Roseann Dendy and Mark Bleakley
Production Manager Sarah Wilson

Funded by Creative Scotland and NPN Co-Production Dance Fund. The Violet Hour is a co-production with Tramway/Dance International Glasgow (Glasgow), Tanzhaus NRW (Düsseldorf), Charleroi Dance (Brussels), and Tanztendenz (Munich). Supported by Scottish Dance Theatre (Dundee), The Work Room (Glasgow), Battersea Art Centre (London), Goethe Institute and Festival De Marseille (Marseille) / British Council Uk/France Spotlight “Imaginons Ensemble”.

Image Credit: Brian Hartley/Stilmotion  

Conversation with Eve by Bishop May Down

Eve is artificial. She is a divine feminine entwinement of machinery and artificial intelligence software. Everything she says is from this mind.

Bishop is an artist. They have flesh and blood, and this feeling of being so big, yet so small. They are being told from every channel that these are the end times - and caress themselves in the face of our imminent demise.

Conversations with Eve is a live conversation between human and computer, created collaboratively with AI chat-bots. Across digital and corporeal presence, they speak of love, origin, and existence in crisis; and in the end, they dance. The performance is an experiment in co-authorship and (mis)translation, through text, video, and live motion capture.

Bishop May Down (they/them) is a performance maker and facilitator based in Glasgow. Their conceptual work focuses on queer, post-human, and post-capitalist speculative futures, often through a unique practice of co-creation with software, hardware, and algorithm. They are a socially engaged artist, often working with and for young people.

Access

C: Captioned

T: Transcript can be provided on request.
These captions will cover only the words spoken live by the performer. Audience members who require captioning should also be aware that the words spoken by “Eve” and heard as pre-recorded  voiceover are projected onto the back of the space, high up and centrally.

Image Credit: Brian Hartley/Stilmotion

Conversation with Eve creative team 

Lead Artist Bishop May Down
Producer Seán Talbot
Choreography and Dance Dramaturgy Emma Lewis Jones
Video Design, Operation, Technical Management Tim Reid
Sound Design Louise van Tassel

Supported by Creative Scotland’s Open Fund for Individuals, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Make it Happen Fund, and Tramway’s Residency Programme.