Pupils at Perth High School enjoyed a free dance workshop celebrating the life and work of dance pioneer Margaret Morris.
Dance artists Kasumi Momoda and Yifeng Zhu led the session, which was based on a new choreographic work by Scottish Ballet principal dancer Vincent Hantam.
Vincent’s work, inspired by the natural movement form associated with Margaret Morris, will premiere as part of Horsecross Arts’ Movement weekend of exhibitions and performances in Perth on October 15 and 16.
The weekend kicks off with a guided tour of the multi-screen exhibition Movement on Perth Concert Hall’s Threshold Wave and newly commissioned films by the Scottish artists Brian Hartley, Su Grierson and Katrina McPherson on the big screen in the Norie-Miller Studio.
This will be followed by a triple bill of dance, music, film and light in Perth Concert Hall’s Gannochy Auditorium featuring two solos by Vincent Hantam and Jacqueline Harper with a nine-piece finale by Vincent, Debra Salem and friends.
On Sunday morning there will be a double bill guided tour from Perth Concert Hall’s Threshold Wave to the Fergusson Gallery, Perth’s own museum home of the Margaret Morris Archive, as a finissage of the exhibition 125 Years of Margaret Morris.
Stuart Hopps stars in one-person drama My Name is Margaret in Perth Concert Hall’s Norie-Miller Studio on Sunday lunchtime which will be followed by a post-show discussion with Stuart and all exhibiting artists.
Iliyana Nedkova, co-curator of the exhibition and creative director for contemporary art at Horsecross Arts, the creative organisation behind Perth Concert Hall and Perth Theatre, said: “Margaret Morris is a true pioneer who changed the face of contemporary dance in Scotland and beyond.
“An icon of her time, often compared to Isodora Duncan, yet today her innovation and extravagance would steer more towards the master of re-invention David Bowie.
“I am very pleased that our new exhibition Movement at Threshold artspace and the weekend performances at Perth Concert Hall pay a tribute to this woman artist who constantly reinvented herself and her dance over seven extraordinarily innovative decades.”
