IN March 2007, 75 performers aged from 7 to 75, many of whom hadn’t danced before, came together for Wolves, an intergenerational dance production formed by the Glasgow-based dance company Barrowland Ballet.

Using movement and live music to explore the ideas we have about bodies and minds from childhood through teenage years, middle-age and later life, their production was a hit, gaining a five-star review from The Herald.

This month the company, which is built around the artistic work of choreographer Natasha Gilmore, takes another, smaller production (also called Wolves) on tour to Edinburgh, Stirling, Inverness, Musselburgh and Paisley.

Further investigating some of the ideas from the original production, Wolves 2018 brings together some of the dancers from that original show, many of whom share family connections, such as award-winning playwright Davey Anderson, who performs alongside his nine-year-old daughter Rosa, and highly-acclaimed folk musician Mairi Campbell, who sings, dances and plays her viola along with her teenage daughter Ellen.

The youngest members of the cast are Gilmore’s own two sons, while 69-year-old Irene Kelso is the oldest.

“That intimacy has allowed for a playfulness which has informed the work, as well as people’s own personal experiences,” says Gilmore, after noting that a key question of this production is how we go about choosing our paths in life as we grow up.

“Is it about acting on the advice of older people, or rebelling against those ideas?” she says. “Is it more about being brave enough to forge your own path, and to what extent is that idea itself informed by other older people?”

The company recently launched the Wolf Pack, a free intergenerational company in Glasgow for participants aged seven to 90 years old. They perform on March 2 at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal as part of community dance festival Go Dance.

Before that, there’s these dates, for which the wolf metaphor works well, as Gilmore further explains.

“There’s that idea of the lone wolf versus the wolf pack,” she says. “That idea of the lone wolf pushing against the family, which is what teenagers do to create space for themselves to grow.

“That can be frightening and challenging, but, like in later life, there are instances when you do just have to step off the path yourself.”

Today [Feb 17], Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, 2.30pm and 7.30pm, £10, £8 concs. Tel: 0131 5296000 edtheatres.com

Tomorrow [Feb 18], Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling, 4pm, £8.50. Tel: 01786 466666 macrobertartscentre.org

Feb 19, Eden Court, Inverness, 7pm, £10, £8 concs. Tel: 01463 234234 eden-court.co.uk

Feb 23, The Brunton, Musselburgh, 7.30pm, £12, £10 concs. Tel: 0131 665 2240 thebrunton.co.uk

Feb 24, Paisley Arts Centre, 4pm and 7.30pm, £10, £8 concs. Tel: 0300 300 1210 renfrewshireleisure.com/arts barrowlandballet.co.uk