The Game of Life & Rotten Work

Scottish Dance Theatre celebrates four decades of innovation with two new creations by internationally acclaimed choreographers Emilie Leriche (US/Sweden) and Edouard Hue (Switzerland).

Hue’s choreography is organic and sensation-driven, combining raw virtuosity and emotional intensity in a dynamic physical language that reveals both strength and vulnerability. Inspired by puzzle and pattern, The Game of Life explores how individuals come together into a living, evolving whole without surrendering their uniqueness. What if failing to reach the form we imagined were not a failure, but the very condition of a living society?

In sharp contrast, in Rotten Work, Leriche offers a poetic, slow-burning choreography that lingers in moments of connection, intimacy, and quiet emotional depth: “It is simple: No one is allowed to be left behind, though they may tire or weaken. If ever we arrive, we must arrive together. Not me alone, or them without me. But us, as one. That’s the work, Rotten as it is. Carry me along, though I may be a weight.”

After a world premiere at our home in Dundee Rep in June 2026, The Game of Life & Rotten Work is now touring.