Barrowland Ballet: Wee Man

Residencies:

23 - 27 April
28 June - 2 July
Saturday 24 August

Barrowland Ballet are undergoing research and development of a new participatory performance piece, Wee Man, which will include an intergenerational cast of male teenagers and adults. It will be premiered this September, at Gathered Together festival, in Tramway.

Wee Man is a highly physical performance by 6 men and 6 teenage boys, exploring the rules of masculinity understood by the wee men and older men in the cast. With a sound score by composer Luke Sutherland and text created with poet Kevin P. Gilday.

The troop holds

Cradles brotherhood

In calloused hands

Absorbs transgression

Forgives everything but individuality

Dismisses the traumatic

With a pat on the back