Tartan
chameleon's newest project is a world premiere performance of
Shotakovitcch's virtually unknown and long buried score
Hypothetically Murdered. Set in the dark and turbuletn 1930's
Soviet Union, the story focuses on a gravedigger, a survivor, as
well as the most job-secure employee of the State, a chance
encounter and apoem. Amidst the unease, suspicion and whispers
is the excited release of banquets, the trapeze, Harlequin and his
Columbine dancing to the tune of Commedia Troika and Auguste, the
Communist Party ring Master. Tartan chameleon is led by Cawdor-based
dancer Eric Tessier-Lavigne. His stimulating and thought
provoking piece has beeen descrribed as hyper-kinetic, visually
extreme, musically dynamic, a black comedy romp, both profoundly
moving and entertaining. |