Scottish Tour Dates Announced for Elizabeth Schilling’s Hear Eyes Move

Following a series of highly-acclaimed European performances across 2021-2023,

award-winning dance artist and choreographer Elisabeth Schilling includes two Scottish dates as the only dates in the UK tour of her work HEAR EYES MOVE – Dances with Ligeti this October. The Scottish venues are The Byre Theatre St. Andrews on 17th October at 6:30pm and Aberdeen’s Music Hall on 21st October at 8:00pm

A celebration of Hungarian genius-composer György Ligeti’s recent 100th birthday, HEAR EYES MOVE – Dances with Ligeti is a highly inventive dance-concert performance that sees Schilling choreographically interpret Ligeti’s iconic, avant-garde piano études through both movement and sound for the stage.  She will be joined live by pianist Cathy Krier and five dancers.

Brimming with multi-sensory imagery, HEAR EYES MOVE seeks not to separate dance and music but to join them as one – experimenting passionately with sound and form; shape and feeling; movement and resonance, to produce a nexus of artistic expression that sees Ligeti’s complexities mesh intimately with Schilling’s dance.

Created in tandem with Grand Théâtre Luxembourg, Kunstfest Weimar, and Philharmonie Luxembourg with funding from Creative Scotland, Fondation Été, and Foundation Scotland, HEAR EYES MOVE will also see Elisabeth Schilling work closely with the two communities and local dance artists to share her practice. Additionally, she will work with dancers from the National Youth Dance Company and Fusion dancers at Citymoves in Aberdeen to create an exciting opener for the show.

Elisabeth Schilling is Artist in Residence at Trifolion Echternach and Associate Artist at Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg who has received numerous choreographic commissions from institutions such as the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg and the Philharmonie Luxembourg; the Tate Gallery of Modern Art (London); the Museum of Applied Art (Frankfurt/Main); Gauthier Dance (Stuttgart); and the Hunterian Art Gallery Glasgow.

Elisabeth has held a fond love for Scotland since her first visit with London-based company EDge in 2011, which led her to live in Scotland for one year whilst being a guest artist with Scottish Dance Theatre (2013/14). She enjoys reconnecting to Scotland every year as she finds its spirit not only fills her soul but was highly influential to her own artistic development.

Irene Brown