Jane joined an international team from Scotland, the UK and the USA to work with 350 Glaswegians on the handover presentation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony in Delhi, India. After a very successful Games, the Indian people handed over the Commonwealth flag to the city of Glasgow who will host the Games in 2014, and Glasgow accepted it in style.
The most wonderful part of the handover ceremony was the 350 strong volunteer cast who ranged from tertiary dance students to council officers to parks maintenance workers and represented all local council areas in Scotland. The cast worked so hard during the 3 week intensive boot camp to become an amazing performance team who presented to the world a Glasgow full of pride, passion, spirit and dedication.
Jane worked with Nathan Wright and specifically choreographed and trained the cast in all the large-scale cloth movements of 68 tartans and put the whole piece together with Gina Martinez and Rocky Smith who created amazing movement with illuminated planks and giant silver inflatable pieces. As a team, we constantly adapted the prop pieces to create a maze, a labyrinth, multi-coloured tartan, the Scottish flag, the River Clyde, the Clyde Drain, the Armadillo, a Celtic knot and Nessie, the Loch Ness monster! Jane live directed the 10-minute segment by cueing the cast via in-ear radio receivers.
This amazing segment was created by Glasgow Life and Mark Fisher, Sara Donaldson and Catherine Ugwu for Unspun Productions, with technical production by Piers Shepherd and costumes by Jilli Blackwood. The whole segment was put together by Steve Boyd who created the scenes, designed the props, rendered the choreographic charts and directed the rehearsal process.
Both the people of Glasgow and Delhi were so warm and inviting and so proud to share their culture and spirit with the world, and it was a privilege to work on such a wonderful project.
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