Tim Nunn is keen for Dance International Glasgow audiences to interpret that word "international" in its broadest sense.
Many of the Scottish companies on the programme have a highly visible international profile, while an artist like Colette Sadler - whose company, Stammer, will present the World Premiere of Geist - has strong links with Europe.
"Colette's name was instantly familiar to the Lithuanian Low Air Urban Dance Theatre," says Nunn. "They probably see more of her than we do!" As for the likes of Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (from London) , or Aakash Odedra (from Leicester) - Nunn points out that even if they're based less than 400 miles away, they might as well be on another planet as far as Glasgow audiences are concerned. Odedra's double bill also connects vividly with how issues of disability, prejudice and personal experiences thread through so much of DIG's programming. Inked (choreographed by Damien Jalet, whose YAMA is in the repertoire of Scottish Dance Theatre) invokes the tattoos that marked Odedra's mother as an indentured worker in India.
You can access Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Company, however, through the interactive installation Hyperchoreography or courtesy of the film programme. And if, in Nunn's words, you want "a really great night out" then head to Tramway for The Show Must Go On, with integrated company Candoco going all a-groove in a cunning work by French choreographer Jerome Bel.
Elsewhere, Mela on Your Doorstep brings home the fact that dance styles travel - with food, as well as culture on offer.
MARY BRENNAN
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