Ivor Cutler's songs lift Scottish dance

Can you dance to a song called Cockadoodledon't? A startling new work called Off Kilter uses Ivor Cutler's songs to celebrate Scottish danceOne weekend last summer, Ashley Page was sitting at home playing some CDs. The choreographer credited with revitalising Scottish Ballet was searching for some music to slot into Off Kilter, a show celebrating Scottish dance. He had, perhaps unsurprisingly, ruled out Hebridean psalms. "They did nothing for me in terms of choreography," he says. So he put on ...

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