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Michael Clark Company – New Work 2012

Tramway, Glasgow October 4 th 2012 When a crop-haired female dancer is lowered from the heavens onto the vast expanse of the stage of one of the most significant performance/art spaces in Europe, it magnificently sums up the audacious spirit of Michael Clark. Especially as the trio that make up Green Gartside’s twenty-first century version of one-time squat rockers turned glossy 1980 chart stars Scritti Politti are playing The Boom Boom Bap, the lead single from Gartside’s 2006 ‘comeback’ album, White Bread Black Beer, tucked into the side of the stage beside the action the band are under-scoring. Royal Ballet rebel Clarke fled the tutus and tights set to form his own company in 1984, performing to soundtracks dominated in early works by the relentless repetitions of The Fall, who he first referenced in his 1984 piece, New Puritans. It says much for the relative conservatism of the contemporary dance world that for more than thirty years, now, Clarke has been regard