AUSSIES SHARE `NEW MOVES' IN GLASGOW.

A contingent of Australian dancers will explore uncharted choreographic terrain in Scotland this month as part of the annual New Moves (new territories) international dance festival March 7-25 in Glasgow.

The thirteen-year-old festival, which showcases emerging international contemporary dance companies, teamed up this year with the Australia Council, a governmental arts funding and advisory body, and a handful of Australian arts presenters to create the Australian Invited Artists Programme, a highlight of this year's festival. Featured choreographers and performers include: Lucy Guerin, a collaborator with Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Project; Sue Healey and Philip Adams in a shared program; and Helen Herbertson, Lisa O'Neill, Trevor Patrick, and Dean Walsh.

"You'll see dance with a distinctly Australian flavor--radical, adventurous, free-sprited--from the nation's most exhilarating dance and performing artists," said New Moves Artistic Director Nikki McMillan.

As part of this year's New Moves International Choreographic Core exchange program, six U.K. artists and seven Australian artists will collaborate over a month-long period in Adelaide and Glasgow. Canadian choreographer Tedd Senmon will mediate the exchange, which was created in partnership with the Telstra Adelaide Festival 2000.

Additional festival highlights include a performance by Australia's company in space, which integrates computer and communications technologies into its dancing, and the Men Solo program, which features U.K. premieres by Claude Brumachon and Benjamin Lamarche (France), Thierry Smits and Compagnie Thor (Belgium), David Zambrano (Venezuela), Xavier Le Roy (Germany), Vincent Dunoyer (Belgium), Akram Khan (U.K.), and Krisztina de Chatel (Netherlands).