Dance

Socratic Circles

Pomegranates 2025

(Fri 25 Apr: 10:30am)

Join the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland for the opening festival dance theatre show to celebrate the finale of Socratic Circles - an unique approach to co-devising dance theatre with young people.

Socratic Circles revolves around a dialogue between 20 dance artists-in-residence at Edinburgh’s Abbeyhill and Royal Mile Primary Schools and forty pupils aged 10 and 11. The dance theatre weaves in the children’s ideas, drawings and poems about the wee objects selected by each pupil to represent their diverse heritage.

See the resident dancers, all postgraduate students in Dance Science and Education at the University of Edinburgh, perform to choreography by Sotirios Panagoulias with costume design by Gerry Gapinski.

The show lasts about 30 minutes and will be followed by a post-show Q&A with some of the creatives and special guests.

Funded by the University of Edinburgh through the Edinburgh Local Community Fund and curated by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland in an ongoing academic partnership with the Centre for Research in Education, Inclusion and Diversity (CREID) at Moray House School of Education and Sport as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion.

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• Dance
• £0.00
• 25 April 2025
• 75 minutes
• 10:30
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