Scottish Dance Theatre Spring Tour

Scottish Dance Theatre's Spring Tour will begin on 21 February in Dundee and will tour throughout the UK and Ireland, ending in Blackpool on 21 May. Ten years into Janet Smith's artistic leadership and twenty one since the company began, Scottish Dance Theatre is delighted to present new work by one of the most talked about choreographers of the moment, Hofesh Shechter, and the return of Liv Lorent's stunning Tenderhook, which premiered last Autumn.

Dog is an exhilarating work created especially for Scottish Dance Theatre by rising star Hofesh Shechter and is honest, raw, witty and sophisticated.  Other than his own company, Hofesh Shechter Dance Company, Scottish Dance Theatre is the first professional company for which Shechter has created work.

Liv Lorent's work, Tenderhook, is her second work for Scottish Dance Theatre, with her first being the critically acclaimed Luxuria. Tenderhook is an epic search for perfect love - bound up in passion, joy, freedom, constraint and compromise. The work features music by multi award-winning Italian film composer Ezio Bosso and costume design by Lorent's long-term collaborator Paul Shriek.

Press Quotes Hofesh Shechter: '[Shechter] is the hottest thing in contemporary dance...a true original!' - The Guardian 'He has you on the edge of your seat, dry-mouthed, from start to finish' - The Observer Tenderhook: 'Exquisite - a feast for the senses' - The Herald 'This is one work I never wanted to end' - The Scotsman 'Utterly moving...visually amazing...staggeringly good' - audience member

Tour dates

• Dundee Rep Theatre: 21 - 23 February
• Glasgow Theatre Royal: 28 - 29 February
• The Place, London: 6 - 8 March
• Eden Court Theatre, Inverness: 12 - 13 March
• Edinburgh Festival Theatre: 19 March
• Corn Exchange, Newbury: 27 March
• Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye: 15 April
• Àrainn Shuaineirt, Strontian: 18 April
• Macrobert, Stirling: 25 April
• Dunamaise Arts Centre: 3 May
• Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray: 7 May
• Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo: 10 May
• Town Hall Theatre, Galway: 13 May
• Roscommon Arts Centre: 16 May
• The Grand Theatre, Blackpool: 21 May