Futureproof: Scottish Photography Graduate Show, Glasgow
The new crop prove they can look to the future and learn from the past
To Futureproof is to ensure that we don’t become technologically obsolete, but keep in touch with as yet undeveloped technologies and exploit those already in the ether. It’s an apt title for this exhibition of work by 16 graduates from the five Scottish university photography departments. That most are already future-proofing themselves is apparent in their diverse approaches to their work.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Runnicles, Royal Albert Hall
Donald Runnicles - a great Mahlerian in the making?
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Runnicles, Royal Albert Hall
A glowing programme of works both English and international from Scots on top form
Mary Stuart, Opera North
Saga of Tudors and Stuarts winningly given the bel canto treatment
Chroma/ Tryst/ Symphony in C, Royal Ballet
The secret of great choreography is to surprise - can the young ones learn that?
A Balanchine on a mixed bill is a reminder of what a choreographer should desire to offer his audience: a specific new experience of art each time, not a repeated thumbprint in every ballet. Balanchine grew up in a borderless theatre country - jazz, music hall, Broadway, Cubism, Russian imperialism, folklore, classical piano studies, all soaked his personality and fed his imagination.
Peter Pan, Barbican Theatre
Lost Boy found again in gritty reimagining of JM Barrie's classic
“All over the world children are safe – but not here, not on my ship.” Despite its wild pack of homeless children, a flesh-eating crocodile and some of the most gut-punching depictions of parental grief in all literature, J M Barrie’s Peter Pan has somehow been consigned to the theatrical remainders bin, its old-fashioned sentimentality acceptable really only at Christmas, or in pantomime form.