Nicholas Shoesmith

Choreographed by Scottish Ballet Soloist Nicholas Shoesmith (Catalyst, The Fates) and directed by Ciaran Lyons, this high-octane short film takes viewers on a journey through a game-like landscape inhabited by otherworldly beings, where the real and virtual collide.

The dancers in Breathless are symbols of the themes that run through every relationship, such as balance, power, trust, and greed. The film is created as an infinite loop and shot in a fully enclosed circular space, reflecting the cyclical nature of life and relationships. Scottish Ballet Short Film.

Juliet awakens from a fever dream. How did we get here? The lines between hallucination and memory blur as cinema and dance collide in a kaleidoscopic journey of queer belonging, defiance, and self-discovery. A vivid retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet brought to life by Scottish Ballet.

Scottish Ballet's first ever Digital Artist in Residence, Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, builds on his visually innovative collection of works, collaborating with three choreographers and composers to create Technology//Mythology//Allegory - a series of three new works under The Fates. Motion tracked and digitally augmented, The Fates is a collaboration between Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, choreographer Nicholas Shoesmith and composer Ben Chatwin. The Fates explores notions of autonomy and control in a digital society.

In 1960, American dancer and actor Gene Kelly created for the Paris Opera Ballet an original choreography that was highly acclaimed at the time, yet rarely performed thereafter; a genius work that the Scottish Ballet, accompanied by the stirring and evocative score by composer and pianist George Gershwin, epitome of orchestral jazz, brings back to life sixty years later.