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In 2005, when Scottish Ballet performed at the nice to have a premiere at the Festival. and I wanted to

SIAMSO'R: THE BATTLE Edinburgh International Festival after an absence of 20 give Stephen that honour.‘ Petronio's piece will be FOR .E'RE . . years. great excitement surrounded their return. Now joined by For MG: The Movie by Trisha Brown. whose Fa'ry rmgs and lr'Sh dancmg that the company is back for the third year running. own company is also at the Festival this year. And they almost seem old hat - yet there are a couple of closing the programme in a flurry of speeding legs is firsts worth looking out for. Page’s Fearful Symmetries - a work he created for the

Since Ashley Page took over as artistic director in Royal Ballet to great acclaim in 1994. 2003. he has only ever bought in existing works. or ‘I wanted to save Fearful Symmetries for something used his own choreography. Now. for the first time, he like the Festival because it fits its stature.‘ explains has been able to commission a brand new piece Page. ‘The piece won an Oliver Award and a Time Out created specially for Scottish Ballet. Ride The Beast by Award and was a big success for me and the Royal New York choreographer, Stephen Petronio. is a fast- Ballet. so I wanted to wait until it was the right time for paced cannonball of a work set to several emotive us to do it.‘ (Kelly Apter) songs by Radiohead. If "' ' - :.' . . A: '~

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