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18.30-21.00
PARA-SITE Theatre Company Drive Faster! We'll miss it…
[walkabout performance]
This is a wry look at marriage and its consequences inspired
by the romantic setting of South Hill Park and brought to you
by PARA-SITE Theatre Company. |
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18.30-18.50
Nebulous Theatre Productions The Domino Effect
[20mins, theatre]
A newly devised Physical Theatre comedy, that will make
you laugh until you cry and cry until you laugh. |
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19.00-19.15
Dance In-Tension Point of Synthesis
[15mins, dance]
High powered, highly energetic and dynamic contemporary dance.
Created through a process of combining natural movements of
the body with 'synthetic' and refined movements that feel and
look unnatural. |
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19.20-19.35
Laura Doehler & William Collins Tied Feathers
[15mins, dance]
"Our lack of uniqueness is the only thing we share today,
besides our extreme separation." Reena Spaulings |
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19.40-20.05
Abigail Marion Dance Company
Untucked and Tangled & The Edge of Words
[2 dance pieces, 15mins & 5mins]
2 works from a brilliant new choreographer. "...fast and
limber, an incessant stream of spirals, morphing slithers and
slides [...] liquid motion" Donald Hutera |
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20.15-20.50
The Allgood Theatre Company Dark Sometimes by
Matthew Wilkie
[35mins, theatre]
Local Policeman. Man on the spot. The only one who believes
he can solve the mystery… Prior to the Edinburgh Festival, this
work-in-progress takes a dark disturbing tale and gives it a
theatrical twist… |
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21.00-21.30
Zephyr In Zanussi In the Absence of… #3
[30mins, dance theatre]
Steffen Doring's piece explores the notion of an 'autistic'
society. Crossing performance art, cabaret and contemporary
dance, this is a challenging and visually intriguing dance-theatre
production. |
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21.45-22.15
HeArt The Poodle Badge Jumper and the Mystery
[30mins, dance theatre]
What starts as stand-up comedy leads into vulnerability and
paradox. Jumpers and anything else may well turn out to be inherently
unfathomable. |
| Sat... |
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12.00-21.00
Chantal Addley Mona Lisa Photobooth
[installation performance]
From DaVinci's original through to the present day, the Mona
Lisa's enigmatic smile has been interpreted by many artists
over the centuries. Visit the Mona Lisa Photo Booth and create
your own unique version of that famous look. |
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12.00-21.00
Ruth Hutch Frau
[installation performance]
The inspiration for this piece of sculpture was taken from
Josef Beuys' small vitrine encased 'Frau'. Ruth will recreate/re-cycle
this rather pared down image of womanhood, sculpting a more
feminine form.
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12.00-12.30
Bonebound The Gift
[30mins, theatre]
A classic fairy tale setting develops disturbing undertones
when two industrious seamstresses receive the ultimate labour-saving
device. But who needs it the most? A bawdy comic exploration
of the perils and pitfalls of romantic fantasy. |
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12.45-13.10
Michaela Reiser Excitations
[25mins, sound installation performance]
An improvised piece in which subtle processes of the performer's
body are made audible. A performer is wired up with biofeedback
sensors whose outputs (stress level and blood-flow) are translated
into sounds. |
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13.15-13.30
Yumiko Matsumura
Isolation, Adjustment, Disconnection, and then...
[15mins, dance]
This is a solo physical theatre piece about 'being alien'.
This will be a "solo with Audience"; I am looking forward to
meeting you… |
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13.30-13.50
Chiara D'Anna, Barry Finnegan Duet
[20mins, physical theatre]
A work-in-progress exploring the techniques found in Gardzienice
as well as Meyerhold's biomechanics. |
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14.00-14.30
Demonstrate Ever the Bull
[30mins, theatre]
Winding handles, playing overtures on toy pianos, and pedalling
like lunatics, a chap called Stan recreates exhausting glimpse
of a half-remembered past. Then enters a man in a radiation
suit who plugs in lights and serves up a microwave dinner... |
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14.45-15.05
Awkward City Inapoticum Forgetanamia
[20mins, theatre]
Mike and Audrey are computer game robots built to fight, but
fight to be together. A quirky but intelligent performance that
combines the inane with undercurrents of capitalism, consumerism
and allegory. |
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15.15-16.15
Eitan Buchalter Reading Music
[1hr, installation performance]
A performance artwork interested in awkward situations. It
looks at the confused assumptions made within learning environments
and the special ways that an individual's presence can influence
an enclosed activity. |
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15.45-16.05
Michelle Reader & Tessa Wills Experimental Anatomy
[20mins, live art]
With a pair of custom-made mechanical wings, Tessa attempts
to master the art of flight. This is the first in a series of
'inventions'; wearable objects that attempt to improve on the
function of the human form and enable the wearer to surpass
their own potential. |
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16.15-17.00
Discussion
[1hr, panel]
Producers, programmers, Arts Council Officers and mid-career
artists offer insightful perspectives on how to get ahead in
the industry. |
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17.15-17.30
Atom Theatre Foundation
[15mins, musical theatre]
The evolution of new techniques in devised music theatre.
Work-in-progress that will form the basis of Atom Theatre's
Kaspar which will be coming to the Studio Theatre later this
year. |
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17.35-18.00
The Middle Class Bastards High Energy
[25mins, music]
It's got poetry, it's got rap, it's got dancing, it's got
singing, it's got offensive material, it's got inspiring material,
it's got tears and it's got laughs. |
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18.05-18.30
ProtoPlay LifeLooping
[25mins, music]
A live musical, theatrical, semi-improvised performance.
The piece aims to expose and intensify the musical qualities
that occur naturally in the spoken word. |
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18.45
- 19.00
Louise Ritchie Funk Ball
[15mins, physical theatre]
Despite many tales of death, 200,000 teenagers from the slums
of Rio de Janeiro ensure that the funk balls' senseless phenomenon
just keeps growing. This 15-minute solo explores the rhythm
of the balls that fuels the rage within these young people.
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20.00-20.40
Equaldoubt Suffocation
[40mins, physical theatre]
"To cause discomfort to by or as if by cutting off the supply
of fresh air."
Two people, two cultures, two languages, two paths, under one
roof... Suffocation. |
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21.00-21.30
Zephyr In Zanussi Cameo
[30mins, dance theatre]
A poignant take on the connections we make with others...
Why are these connections formed? Will they last? And what about
the people who appear as walk-ons and bit-parts? |
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21.45-22.15
Dissensemble A Slice of Life
[30mins, theatre]
Dissensemble present an innovative exploration into the complex
relationship between our physical anatomies and the physical
landscape of our experiences. |
