Tramway

Orgy of Tolerance

2 Apr 2009

A quick glance at the poster for Jan Fabre’s latest show, Orgy of Tolerance tells you the Belgian artist clearly isn’t afraid to push people’s buttons. On it, a bearded, long-haired performer stands wearing Y-fronts, a gold-link chain and a crucifix…

Visual art: Hidden Art

15 Sep 2008

Away from Edinburgh and Glasgow’s public galleries, which have collections which match their budgets, many smaller spaces flourish. ‘Small’ is all relative, however. Venues like Glasgow’s centre for design and architecture The Lighthouse (www.the…

Peter Brook's 11 and 12 marks director's return to the Glasgow and Tramway he transformed

22 Mar 2010

Let’s start with some history. Throughout the 20th century, Glasgow was as dangerous as it was dreich. You couldn’t leave your tenement slum without being stabbed. It was a bonus if you avoided a head-butting. A trip to the steamie or even to your…

Errol White Company presents new group work IAM

New emotional work based on loss set for Tramway

27 Feb 2012

There are moments in our lives that hit us more than others. Events that alter the shape of who we are. It was one such moment that led choreographer Errol White onto a creative path that produced first a solo, and now a new group work, IAM. ‘The…

Glasgow’s Tramway among winners at 2010 GaGA Awards

National Theatre of Scotland also win at Glasgow audience development awards

4 Feb 2011

Thursday’s GaGAs 2010 highlighted some of the outstanding achievements of Scottish cultural organisations over the past year. The awards are part of organisers Culture Sparks’ ongoing endeavour to encourage intelligence and innovation throughout…

Tramway celebrates radical career of Yvonne Rainer

10 Sep 2010

Like many artforms, dance underwent a minor revolution in the 1960s – much of it taking place at a church in New York’s Greenwich Village. In 1962, ballet was beginning to lose its stranglehold on the genre as modern dance found its feet. But for some…

The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME

The Arches, Glasgow, Sat April 23 2010

29 Apr 2010

There’s a raging calm at the opening of this epic 13-hour voyage into the underworld for a melding of myths old and new created and orchestrated by post-punk collagist Linder. As the most graceful of Muses wafts about the room like some J.D. Fergusson…

A=P=P=A=R=I=T=I=O=N

14 Aug 2009

The sound installation A=P=P=A=R=I=T=I=O=N is a collaboration between Welsh experimental filmmaker Cerith Wyn Evans and the original ‘industrial’ music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. The piece, which takes its title from the poem by Stéphane Malarmé is a…

Wayn Traub: Maria-Magdalena

28 May 2009

The best things come in threes. At least, that’s what fans of Wayn Traub will be hoping as the experimental theatre-maker returns to Scotland this fortnight with the third and final instalment in his Wayn Wash trilogy. Maria-Magdalena is cut from the…

Victoria/Campo: Venizke

2 Apr 2009

DANCE THEATRE When mental instability is spread across the front covers of Heat and Hello, it’s easy to forget that a real human lies being behind the mask of celebrity. Deconstructing the desire to be famous – and the pleasures and pitfalls it can…

Raising the curtain

15 Sep 2008

The List steps out from the wings and showcases the very best performance spaces and cherry picks the shows you cannot afford to miss.

Hidden Gardens

Birds suddenly appear

14 Aug 2008

The Hidden Gardens, tucked away behind Tramway, may have been open for five years, but many people aren’t aware of the rich cultural history that’s entrenched in the foundations of the site and built into its design. ‘When the Gardens opened, we…