Deer Dancer

Hanna Tuulikki brings Deer Dancer to Tramway on Saturday 28 November, a cross-artform study of our relationship with deer that starts with mimesis and representation in dance. A quintet of performers take turns playing five hybrid characters, gesturing, lip-syncing, dancing and singing while undressing and redressing into costume, moving between 'wild-deer-ness' and performed male-ness. The work asks how the imitation of deer behaviour constructs ideas of 'wilderness' as the site for cultivating heroic hetero-masculinities, and how hunting mythologies shape real, often vulnerable ecologies. Tuulikki frames the whole thing as an explicit contemporary life-crisis ritual for a damaged planet.

On stage, that ritual takes a physical, atmospheric shape. Low light, prolonged darkness and stylised depictions of weapons and death round out the staging. The reviews it's picked up so far give a sense of the tone: The List called it 'playful and meticulously crafted', Hettie Judah in the i newspaper 'funny, sweet, beautiful and poignant', and The Spectator 'a confident, elegantly produced and richly-layered work'.

Tuulikki is the lead artist, performer and composer, and she co-composed the piece with Kim Moore. It's performed by a quintet of performers, so the five hybrid characters are shared across the group rather than played by five separate people. The venue is Tramway, a vast former tram depot on Glasgow's Southside that's become an internationally renowned arts space, known for staging cutting-edge theatre, dance and visual art in its cavernous industrial rooms, with a programme that leans towards the experimental.

The performance runs from 7.30pm to 9.00pm, about an hour and a half, and there's an optional Open House from 6.30pm to 7.30pm if you want to arrive early. Tickets are £18, with a £12 concession. Tramway is at 25 Albert Drive, G41 2PE.