
THE LAW OF GRAVITY
Blind Summit with the Scottish Ensemble
What is seen and not seen?
Who is a puppet and who is a musician?
What can puppetry reveal about music? In a new collaboration with master puppeteer Mark Down and his team at Blind Summit, musicians and puppeteers come together to blend sound and visuals, exploring the abstract and the real.
Through the romance of Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night and its hope for the future, and the mesmerising modern world of Philip Glass, music will breathe life into the puppet. And the puppet, the ideal dancer not bound by the same physical laws as us, will fleetingly reveal to you the composers’ intentions, their ambitions and their ideas.
"Puppets, like elves, need the floor only in order to skim it, so as to give new vigour to their limbs by its momentary resistance; we need the floor to rest on and recover from the strain of the dance; an instant that itself is clearly not dance and with which there is nothing more to do than to have it, as far as possible, disappear."
(From On the Marionette Theatre by Heinrich von Kleist)
Schoenberg Transfigured Night
Philip Glass 3rd Symphony.
Music Director Jonathan Moreton
Directed by Mark Down
Performances:
13 Feb 2025, The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
14 Feb 2025, Dundee Rep, Dundee
15 Feb 2025, RSNO, Glasgow







