Greenwich+Docklands International Festival In association with XTRAX Presents
GDIF2014 SHOWCASE 20-22 JUNE 2014, LONDON, UK ARTISTS BOOK Photo: Muaré by Voalá, Sergio Bolaños
XTRAX showcases are supported by:
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival is supported by: www.festival.org | www.xtrax.org.uk WELCOME TO GREENWICH+DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL’S ANNUAL SHOWCASE PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH XTRAX
Now in its fourth year, the GDIF Showcase offers an intensive weekend of outdoor arts from leading British and international companies, alongside seminars, pitching sessions and networking opportunities with artists and colleagues from across the UK and internationally.
We’re delighted once again to be presenting new work supported through our association with the Arts Council England funded Without Walls consortium: over the course of the GDIF Showcase weekend you can see all seven of this year’s Without Walls productions. We’ll also be showcasing four new outdoor productions created through our co-commissioning relationship with Latitude, the Lyric Hammersmith and Watford Palace Theatre, whilst in a new initiative, we’re also presenting an innovative programme of outdoor work from Flanders.
Alongside the huge number of performances on offer, there will be opportunities to hear about exciting new outdoor work for 2015/16 with XTRAX Shorts, a seminar on European collaboration, a session on outdoor and site specific performance in Flanders presented by the Institute for the Performing Arts Flanders, together with a programme of pitching sessions by Flemish artists curated by Martine Linaer, Artistic Director of Theater op de Markt. And once again, Jordi Duran, Artistic Director at Fira Tàrrega and a longstanding friend of GDIF, has assembled a programme of exciting presentations by Catalan artists.
Through all of this and the many conversations which will no doubt take place over the weekend, the GDIF Showcase offers you a tremendous opportunity to discover new projects and hear about exciting new outdoor work for future touring. Please feel free to use our Festival Central marquee for meetings, morning coffees and post show drinks!
When programme development budgets are increasingly hard to come by, we know that there are many other festivals and events competing for your attention, so we really appreciate you travelling here and giving your time to be part of this year’s GDIF Showcase. I hope that you have an enjoyable and productive time and I look forward to meeting you over the course of the weekend.
Bradley Hemmings Artistic Director
3 STAFF
Thank you to all staff, partners, artists and volunteers who have contributed to the GDIF2014 Showcase.
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival staff Bradley Hemmings – Artistic Director Matthew Jones – General Manager Sophie Akbar – Festivals and Events Producer Emily Thomas – Projects Administrator Nathan Curry – Associate Director Alicia Graf – Marketing Manager Joyce Kwok – Marketing Assistant Thomas Miani – Production and Artist Liaison Assistant Stephanie Connell – Volunteers Co-ordinator Chas de Swiet – Associate Producer Sheila Baker – Bookkeeper Sharon Kean – Press representative Cliona Roberts – Press representative Iain Lanyon – Print design
XTRAX staff Bianca Amponsah – Administrative and Communications Assistant Matt Belfield – Communication and Event Co-ordinator Anais Biaux – Project Manager Chris Bryerley – General Manager Glenn Casely – Finance and Operations Manager Maggie Clarke – Director Alonso Lobato – Project and Online Marketing Officer
XTRAX freelance staff Mat Martin – Freelance designer | www.matmartin.co.uk
XTRAX gratefully acknowledges the support of Arts Council England
4 CONTENTS
WELCOME …………....………………………………………………………………...... …………………...... 03
STAFF ……..…….…………………………………………………………………………...... ………………. 04
CONTENTS ……………………………………………………………………………………...... …………. 05
ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH | ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND …………...... ……………………. 06
OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE ...... 07
TOWER HAMLETS | ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH ………….……..………...... …...... ……..…………. 08
SPOTLIGHT ON FLANDERS ……………………………………...... …...... ……………………… 09
CATALAN ARTS ……………………………………………………………………...... …………………… 10
WITHOUT WALLS …………………………....………………………...... ……………………………… 11
XTRAX ..………………………………………………………………...... …………………………… 12
DELEGATE SERVICES AND EVENTS …….…………………...... …….………………………… 13
SHOWCASE SCHEDULE & PROGRAMME OVERVIEW ...... …...... ………………… 14
ARTIST INDEX ……………………………...... ……………………………………...... …………………… 16
ARTIST PAGES ……………………………...... ………………………………………...... ……………………… 18
NOTES ……………………………………...... ………………………………...... ………………………. 51
SITE MAP ...... 52
5 WELCOME FROM THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH
On behalf of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, I’m delighted to welcome you to this year’s GDIF Showcase of outdoor arts.
With its national reputation for presenting the best of outdoor arts, GDIF is a highlight event of the Royal Greenwich Festivals, a series of high quality events celebrating the cultural vitality of the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Running from April to September 2014 The Royal Greenwich Festivals provides some of the most varied entertainment in the capital in one of the UK’s best locations - in the heart of a World Heritage Site on the banks of the River Thames. This year’s programme, which includes events devoted to street theatre, children’s theatre, dance and a world cultural festival, will culminate in the Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Regatta, taking place from 5 – 9 September.
We hope that you will enjoy your time at the GDIF Showcase in Royal Greenwich and make the most of all that this unique and vibrant part of the capital has to offer.
Mary Ney, Chief Executive, Royal Borough of Greenwich
WELCOME FROM ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival commissions and showcases work that brings accessible outdoor arts to a diverse audience. Working with a broad range of artists, it challenges perceptions and broaches real issues at the same time as delivering entertaining, engaging and high quality work.
Joyce Wilson Area Director, London Arts Council England
6 WELCOME FROM THE OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE
Welcome to Sir Christopher Wren’s twin-domed riverside masterpiece and one of London’s most famous landmarks. Over 500 years ago, Henry VIII’s favourite royal palace stood on this site and it is here that his daughter Elizabeth I was born and spent the early years of her reign.
In the late 17th century, the Palace was in disrepair and Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor, by Royal command, developed the site as the Royal Hospital for Seamen – for the benefit of old and injured sailors. In 1806, the body of Admiral Nelson lay in state in the Painted Hall. In 1873, the Hospital was transformed into the Royal Naval College, as a training facility for the Navy. Today, it’s one of the UK’s leading visitor attractions and host to a vibrant programme of cultural events throughout the year.
I very much hope that you will enjoy the GDIF2014 events at the Old Royal Naval College and find time to take in the Painted Hall, the Chapel and Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre and Shop – you will be surprised and amazed at what you find!
And do come back again!
Brendan McCarthy Chief Executive, Old Royal Naval College
7 WELCOME FROM THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS
Welcome to the GDIF2014 Showcase from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
We are delighted to continue our long and fruitful partnership with GDIF and we look forward to hosting the London premiere of Metro Boulot Dodo’s Safe House presented in association with Wired Aerial Theatre at Mile End Park on 21 June. The performance will tell a visually stunning story, exploring our relationships with our homes: a locally resonant subject for an outdoor spectacle in Tower Hamlets, which will take place not far from the site where Rachel Whiteread’s acclaimed sculpture House once stood. After last year’s events in the south of the Borough, we’re delighted that this year the Festival will return to the Bow area where a real sense of local ownership has developed over the years with many great events taking place in parks and on the streets there.
Stephen Murray, Head of Arts, Parks and Events London Borough of Tower Hamlets
WELCOME FROM ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH
Royal Museums Greenwich is a group of world-class museums incorporating the National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark and the 17th Century Queen’s House, situated within the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. The Museum, the world’s largest of its type, tells the story of Britain and the sea, and the importance of the ocean in our lives today. The Observatory, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1675, is the home of the Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian – Longitude 0°. It displays the NMM’s scientific collections in galleries covering time, space and astronomy, and includes London’s only public planetarium. The 17th-century Queen’s House, England’s first classical building, is a rare surviving example of the work of Inigo Jones and is now primarily used to display the NMM’s internationally significant art collection. Cutty Sark is one of the world’s most famous ships, the last surviving tea clipper and the fastest of her time. She was reopened in 2012, which included raising her over three metres in her dock. Visitors can now walk underneath the ship’s keel and view the elegant lines of her hull, which was the secret of her success.
We are delighted to be hosting the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival in the National Maritime Museum grounds, for the fifth year, and hope that you enjoy a spectacular show.
Kevin Fewster, Director, Royal Museums Greenwich
8 SPOTLIGHT ON FLANDERS
Flanders House, London, and Institute for the Performing Arts Flanders (VTi) are delighted to be collaborating with Greenwich+Docklands International Festival to present a selection of high-quality work from Flanders.
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community (Belgium), GDIF will feature work by Benjamin Vandewalle, CREW and LOD. Additionally, on Friday 20 June, 15:30 - 18:30, the Spotlight on Flanders presentation will offer the opportunity for showcase delegates to hear more about the Flemish performing arts scene, with introductions from the Institute for the Performing Arts Flanders, The Flemish Centre for Circus Art and the opportunity to hear about new projects from six Flemish artists, selected in association with Theater op de Markt Festival; Circo Ripopolo, Cirq, Claire Croizé / Action Scènique, Cie Ea Eo, Karl Van Welden and Rode Boom.
You can see the work of the Flemish artists at the festival at the following times: LOD Music Theatre/Inne Goris – Daydream Friday 20 June 12:00 – 16:00 Saturday 21 June 13:00 – 16:00 & 16:30 – 20:30 Sunday 22 June 12:00 – 15:30 & 16:00 – 19:00
Benjamin Vandewalle – Birdwatching 4x4 Friday 20 June 16:15, 17:10, 18:45, 19:45 Saturday 21 June 13:15, 14:15, 16:35, 17:35 Sunday 22 June 12:40, 13:35, 15:50, 16:55
CREW/Eric Joris - C.A.P.E. Saturday 21 June 13:00 – 18:00 Sunday 22 June 12:00 – 17:55
For more information about performing arts and culture in Flanders please visit Flanders House www.flandershouse.org Institute for the Performing Arts Flanders www.vti.be The Flemish Centre for Circus Art www.circuscentrum.be Theater op de Markt www.theateropdemarkt.be
9 ICEC CATALAN ARTS
The Ministry of Culture at the Government of Catalonia is very proud to take part in the 2014 edition of the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
ICEC Catalan Arts is delighted to be working with GDIF and XTRAX to once again present a selection of Catalan outdoor projects, with the aim of giving artists the opportunity to show their new outdoor projects, available for touring in 2015 and beyond and to network with others working in the sector.
Catalan companies participating in GDIF2014 pitching events are: Kamchàtka, Cia La Tal, co.LABse, Fundación Collado-Van Hoestenberghe, Les Filles Föllen and Toti Toronell & Pepa Plana. The pitching sessions have been curated by Jordi Duran, Artistic Director of the Fira Tarrega.
Work by Catalan performers also at GDIF 2014 Showcase includes:
Colors de Monstre by Tombs Creatius Fri 20 June 12:00 – 16:00 Sat 21 June 13:00 – 18:30 Sun 22 June 12:00 – 17:30
Pelat by Joan Catalá Sat 21 June 14:00 & 19:00 Sun 22 June 12:00 & 16:40
(Circ Panic’s The Man Who Lost His Buttons will also appear as part of Dancing City at Canary Wharf on Saturday 28 June)
We hope that you enjoy the showcase and pitching sessions.
More information about ICEC Catalan Arts can be found at www.catalanarts.cat
10 WELCOME FROM WITHOUT WALLS
Without Walls is a consortium of leading festivals dedicated to the development of the UK’s outdoor arts sector. The consortium nurtures talent and skills by producing new work through commissions and co-productions, and promoting work that supports the growth of the UK outdoor performance sector. Since its launch in 2007 Without Walls has gone from strength to strength, producing or commissioning 68 new outdoor works and supporting shows that have toured in 22 countries, reaching audiences of over 2 million people.
In 2014 the Without Walls commissions are Frantic by Acrojou, (i)land by Marc Brew Company, Safe House by Metro-Boulot-Dodo, Soul of Fado by Nuno Silva, Grime by Ramshacklicious, The Legend of Hamba by Tiata Fahodzi and The Lift by Wet Picnic.
The consortium members are Brighton Festival, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Mintfest, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival, Stockton International Riverside Festival, and Winchester Hat Fair. Without Walls is managed by XTRAX.
The Without Walls Associate Touring Network (ATN) works with a network of nine festivals to extend the reach and benefits of our programme in areas where there is low engagement with the arts, giving diverse audiences across England access to the highest quality new work and further strengthening the outdoor touring sector.
In 2014 the Associate Touring Network members are Appetite (Stoke on Trent), LeftCoast Blackpool, Bradford Festival, Derby Festé, Freedom Festival Hull, Fuse Medway Festival, Out There Festival (Great Yarmouth), SO Festival (Skegness) and Summer in Southside, Birmingham Hippodrome.
We are currently looking to develop partnerships with organisations that would like to support the creation of new work for 2015/2016. If you would like to find out more about how to work with Without Walls, please talk to Maggie Clarke during the showcase weekend or visit: www.withoutwalls.uk.com
Without Walls gratefully acknowledges the investment and support of Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts.
11 XTRAX
XTRAX is pleased to be working once again with Greenwich+Docklands International Festival to bring you the GDIF2014 Showcase, London’s major showcase of outdoor arts.
XTRAX has been producing showcase events since 1997 and is known for bringing together artists and promoters from across the globe to network, develop new partnerships and experience high quality outdoor performance.
We work with key partners to programme, produce and deliver large-scale outdoor events and industry showcases, whilst supporting the development of inspirational outdoor performance artists from the UK and beyond.
GDIF is a long standing collaborator and one of the UK’s major festivals, with a reputation for innovation in its programming and commissioning; XTRAX is delighted to be working once again on this major showcase event for London.
We hope that you enjoy the showcase and that we will see you again at some of our future events. Our next showcase is at Mintfest (Kendal, UK), August 29th to 31st 2014 and we are producing the tour of As The World Tipped by Wired Aerial Theatre, touring this year to: Fuse Medway Festival (UK) – June 14th Kulturhaus Osterfeld e.V. Festival (Pforzheim, Germany) – July 31st and August 1st Festival Cultura Nova (Heerlen, The Netherlands) – August 29th (TBC) LeftCoast Blackpool (UK) – 26-27th September
More information about future XTRAX projects and 2014 showcases can be found at: www.xtrax.org.uk
We look forward to meeting you over the weekend, The XTRAX team 51 Old Birley Street, Manchester M15 5RF T: +44(0)161 2278383 E: [email protected] W: www.xtrax.org.uk
12 DELEGATE SERVICES AND EVENTS
FESTIVAL CENTRAL MARQUEE The Festival Central marquee is the central meeting and information point for all GDIF2014 delegates, situated on Pepys Lawn at the Old Royal Naval College. XTRAX staff will be available throughout the weekend to offer advice on the programme and to help ensure your visit is enjoyable, informative and productive.
OPENING TIMES The Festival Central marquee will be open at the following times:
Friday 20 June 16:00 – 22:00 Saturday 21 June 10:00 – 21:00 Sunday 22 June 10:30 – 16:00
NOTES ON THE SCHEDULE Please note that most performances are repeated several times over the weekend so it should be possible to see all the shows. Any revisions to the schedule will be posted in the Festival Central marquee.
DELEGATE INFORMATION PHOTO BOARD We will print the photographs you have sent us when registering, and place it on a notice board to help you identify who’s who during the showcase.
ARTIST INFORMATION AREA Artists and delegates are invited to bring promotional material about their work to the Festival Central marquee. There will be space to leave brochures and flyers.
ACCESS SERVICES We aim to make the GDIF2014 showcase an inclusive event within an accessible environment and will do all we can do to support your requirements. If you have any access requirements please contact the information desk in the marquee.
There will be BSL interpreters at the Welcome Drinks, and at the artists’ presentations on Saturday and Sunday morning; if you require assistance or BSL interpretation please ask.
13 SHOWCASE SCHEDULE & PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
FRIDAY 20 JUNE An introduction to European Networks with a Spotlight on Flanders King William Lecture Theatre (LTKW302) at the University of Greenwich
13:30 – 14:00 Refreshments and networking 14:00 – 15:30 Discussion: European Cultural Collaboration Chaired by Mark Ball (Artistic Director and Chief Executive of LIFT), this panel discussion will explore some of the opportunities and challenges of working on projects with several European partners. Speakers include Mathilde Vautier (General Co-ordinator, ZEPA 2, France/UK) Celine Verkest (Artistic Director, MiramirO and member of Meridians, Belgium), Gentiane Guillot, (Circostrada/Hors Les Murs, France) and Giles Agis (Executive Director, Brouhaha International, UK). 15:30 – 16:00 Refreshments and networking 16:00 – 18:00 Spotlight on Flanders An introduction to outdoor work from Flanders curated by the Institute for the Performing Arts Flanders and Theater op de Markt Festival. Chaired by Hilde Teuchies (International Relations Officer, Institute for the Performing Arts Flanders). 16:05 Joris Janssens (Director, Institute for the Performing Arts, Flanders) – New tendencies in Flemish performing arts. 16:15 Koen Allary (Director, Flemish Centre for Circus Art) – Introduction to Flemish Circus 16:25 Circo Ripopolo – Ief Gillis & Stef Geers 16:35 Cirq – Stefan Dewinter & Xavier Cloet 16:45 Karl Van Welden – SATURN I, II & III 16:55 Claire Croizé / Action Scénique – Primitive 17:05 Cie Ea Eo / Bram Dommelaere 17:15 Rode Boom/ Kurt Demey – Unknown Evidences 17:25 Benjamin Vandewalle / Caravan Productions – Birdwatching 4x4 17:30 CREW / Eric Joris – C.A.P.E. 17:35 LOD Music Theatre / Inne Goris – Daydream 17:40 Questions and discussion 18:00 – 18:45 Refreshments and networking 18:45 – 19:45 Welcome Drinks for XTRAX Delegates – Festival Central Marquee 20:00 – 23:00 Festival Programme – Various locations
14 SHOWCASE SCHEDULE & PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
SATURDAY 21 JUNE Festival Central Marquee 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee and Networking 10:30 – 12:00 XTRAX Shorts: chaired by Angus MacKechnie, Platforms and Watch This Space Festival Producer, National Theatre.
XTRAX Shorts is a great opportunity to hear about exciting new work available for touring in 2015 and beyond. It also provides a vibrant forum to meet artists, producers and promoters and to network with others working in the sector.
10:30 Corey Baker Dance – Kapa Haka Tale 10:40 Dizzy O Dare – Wires 10:50 Mimbre – Time 11:00 Drake Music, featuring Sonia Allori and Sheron Wray – Seasons 4.0 11:10 Company Chameleon – Beauty Of The Beast 11:20 Simon Mckeown – Cork Ignite 11:30 Alexander Whitley Dance Company – collaboration with Tal Rosner 11:40 2 Faced Dance Company – The Pod 11:50 Meet the delegates – networking event. All delegates are warmly invited to briefly introduce themselves and enjoy some informal networking time before the festival programme starts. 13:00 – 23:00 Festival Programme – Various locations
SUNDAY 22 JUNE Festival Central Marquee 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee and Networking 11:00 Spotlight on Catalonia: Chaired by Angus MacKechnie, Platforms and Watch This Space Festival Producer, National Theatre 11:00 Kamchàtka – Fugit / co.LABse – Table for 2 11:10 Les Filles Föllen – Thank You for Dancing 11:20 Cia La Tal – The Incredible Box 11:30 Piero Steiner & Ernesto Collado (Fundación Collado Van Hoestenberghe) – Constructivo 11:40 Toti Toronell & Pepa Plana – Distracted 11:50 An introduction to Fira Tàrrega 2014, Anna Giribet 11:55 Closing remarks by Mar Pérez Unanue, ICEC (Catalan Arts) and drinks. 12:00 – 18:30 Festival Programme – Various locations 16:00 Festival Central marquee closes
15 ARTIST INDEX
A ACROJOU – FRANTIC ...... 18
B BENJAMIN VANDEWALLE – BIRDWATCHING 4X4 ...... 19 BUCKET CLUB – THE BEASTS ...... 20
C C-12 DANCE THEATRE – MARKET STALL ...... 21 CREW/ERIC JORIS – C.A.P.E ...... 22
D DE STIJLE, WANT – TIME MACHINE ...... 23 DIRECTIE & CO – LAUNDRY XL ...... 24
F FANFARE LE S.N.O.B – OPUS II ...... 25 FLIPPING THE BIRD – THE ITINERANT MUSIC HALL ...... 26
H HAYWOOD HIX – WORKS ...... 27 HELEN CHADWICK SONG THEATRE – WAR CORRESPONDENTS ...... 28 HURyCAN – TE ODIERO ...... 29
I INUA ELLAMS ...... 30
J JOAN CATALÁ – PELAT ...... 31
L LIGHT THE FUSE – FULL STOP ...... 32 LIGHT UP THE HOUSE – FUTEBOL: THE ALTERNATIVE WORLD CUP ...... 33 LOD MUSIC THEATRE/INNE GORIS – DAYDREAM ...... 34
16 ARTIST INDEX
M MARC BREW COMPANY - (i)LAND ...... 35 METRO-BOULOT-DODO - SAFE HOUSE ...... 36 MIMBRE - BENCH ...... 37 MOXIE BRAWL - SIT BACK ...... 38
N NUNO SILVA - SOUL OF FADO ...... 39 NUTKHUT - SWYRON ...... 40
P PAGE ONE THEATRE - MADE UP STORIES FROM MY UNMADE BED ...... 41 PERIPLUM - IMAGINARIUM ...... 42
R RAMSHACKLICIOUS - GRIME ...... 43 RARA WOULIB - DEBLOZAY ...... 44
S SHAUN PARKER & COMPANY - SPILL ...... 45
T THROUGH & OUT ...... 46 TIATA FAHODZI - THE LEGEND OF HAMBA ...... 47 TOMBS CREATIUS - COLORS DE MONSTRE ...... 48
V VOALÁ - MUARÉ ...... 49
W WET PICNIC - THE LIFT ...... 50
17 ACROJOU GERMAN WHEEL
JENI BARNARD | DIRECTOR, DESIGNER, PERFORMER, CO-FOUNDER 25’ 1 ABBEY STREET, KENT ME13 7BE +44 (0) 7727 688485 UK [email protected] | www.acrojou.com
Combining acrobatics, bespoke structures and rich visual design, Acrojou create inspirational contemporary circus performances for events worldwide. Acrojou shows have toured to thirteen countries, been broadcast on national television in the UK and Israel, and featured in newspaper and magazine articles worldwide, as well as more than 200 blogs and online magazines. Jeni Barnard is director, designer, performer, and co-founder of Acrojou alongside long-time creative collaborator, Barney White. Barney is a physical performer trained in acrobatics, dance, martial arts and choreography. Newest company member, Myrto Petrochilou is a graduate of The Circus Space and Rallou Manou Dance School. FRANTIC
Love, freedom, blood, sweat and rain-storms: Frantic is an explosive and moving exploration of our relentless 21st century devotion to being busy. Combining acrobatics and dance-theatre choreographed around a bespoke structure, Frantic uses a rich physical language to pull apart its subject – the reality of a running mind and one man’s thirst for escape. Working at the meeting point between dynamic physicality and rich visual design, this is Acrojou’s second outdoor show and the directorial debut of company co-founder Jeni Barnard.
Commissioned by Without Walls, Brighton Festival, Hat Fair, Mintfest and Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival; in partnership with 101 at Corn Exchange Newbury, The Point, Eastleigh, and Seachange Arts, Great Yarmouth. Originally developed through Gone in 20 Minutes.
KEY PERSONNEL: An Acrojou production; Conception, design and direction: Jeni Barnard; Co-choreographers: Barney White and Myrto Petrochilou; Structure: TMB Design. MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 13 x 7 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 3
18 BENJAMIN VANDEWALLE INSTALLATION, PARTICIPATION, DANCE
KAREN JOOSTEN 35’ HANDELSKAAI 18, B-1000, BRUSSELS +32 (0) 2 226 4582 FLANDERS [email protected] | www.caravanproduction.be (BELGIUM)
Caravan Production is a production and management agency for artists in the performing arts and all possible crossovers, offering services that range from (pre- and post-) production administration and financial supervision to promotion. New and up-coming talents as well as artists who already developed a career can turn to Caravan: individual artists but also companies and collectives, with or without their own administrative structure, as well as organizers of projects with the work of these artists at heart. A special focus goes out to international artists active in the Flemish and Brussels arts scene.
BIRDWATCHING 4x4
Birdwatching 4x4 offers the audience unexpected perspectives of their everyday surroundings, using the urban landscape as an experimental space. A mobile observation box moves the audience through the city, as four dancers stage interventions amidst passing street life. The box functions as a moving camera, framing the outside world and allowing the viewer to recreate his environment with his own insights. A sensory experience, the spectator is invited to explore his personal relationship with the other, and with the world he is part of.
Coproduction: Kaaitheater (BE), Vrijstaat O. (BE), Network DÉPARTS, IN SITU-Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof (BE), IN SITU-Københavns Internationale Teater (DK), IN SITU–Terschellings Oerol Festival (NL), Les tombées de la nuit (FR). Supported by In SITU network, European Commission, the Flemish Authorities, the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region (VGC).
KEY PERSONNEL: Concept & choreography Benjamin Vandewalle; Original idea Erki De Vries, Benjamin Vandewalle; Scenography: Pieter Huybrechts; Dance: Yentl De Werdt, Ian Garside, Benjamin Kahn ,Simon Mayer, Vera Tussing, Albert Quesada, Benjamin Vandewalle No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 6
19 BUCKET CLUB THEATRE
MATT LISTER 20’ APT. 315, 119 NEWINGTON CAUSEWAY, LONDON SE1 6DB +44 (0) 7501 037461 UK [email protected] | www.bucketclub.co.uk
Bucket Club are an associate company of Farnham Maltings. They are a collective of writers, directors, producers, performers, designers and musicians. They aim to make work that is playful and are interested in how stories are told and how theatrical form can be exploited. They like live music, bare spaces and making the most of what they’ve got.
THE BEASTS
The Royal Society of Beastologists is on the hunt for a fearsome, never-before-seen beast. They’ve already photographed the Loch Ness Monster, the Beast of Bodmin and the elusive Essex Lion. But will this final mystery prove too much?
The Beastologists are gathering. Tents have been pitched, Monster Munch has been put into tiny bowls and the bands are tuning up ready to celebrate. In a world of disbelievers, you have been invited to join in the search.
Commissioned by Lyric Hammersmith, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Watford Palace Theatre and Latitude.
MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 3 x 3 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 7
20 C-12 DANCE THEATRE DANCE
ADAM TOWNDROW | PRODUCER 20’ 195 HANDSIDE LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6TE +44 (0) 7782 251816 UK [email protected] | www.c-12dancetheatre.com
Founded in 2005, C-12 is run by Artistic Director Annie-Lunnette Deakin- Foster and Producer Adam Towndrow. Their collaboration has created the productive and dynamic partnership behind an artistic platform encompassing theatrical production (Shhh!, One, The Chair, Enough, C and Scorned), outdoor performance (Trolleys, Van Man and Market Stall) and film (East Side Story, Suspect Number 4). Each work draws on the Directors’ agenda for dance participation and their determination to reach new audiences, particularly young people.
“The world of entertainment needs more people like this creative genius” - Welwyn & Hatfield Times
MARKET STALL
Following the run away success of Trolleys in 2012 and 2013, C-12 Dance Theatre has a captivating new family outdoor piece touring in 2014, Market Stall.
The production comes with a fully functioning market stall, designed to be danced in, around and over. As well as forming the centrepiece of the new production, the show comes with a mini market-stall, which can also be used to roam the streets to promote the performance and your festival if required.
Supported by Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts, Bait Time, SeaChange Arts, Escalator Outdoors.
KEY PERSONNEL: Choreography: Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster; Director: Adam Towndrow; Production Manager: Owen Joseph; Performers: Ria Uttridge, Charlotte Pook and Daniel Edwards. MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 4 x 3.5 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 4
21 CREW/ERIC JORIS DIGITAL / PARTICIPATION
VICKY VERMOEZEN | HEAD OF PRODUCTION 25’
+32 (0) 476 432387 FLANDERS [email protected] | www.crewonline.org (BELGIUM)
CREW is a company that operates on the border between art and science, between performance art and new technology. Artist Eric Joris develops his live-art projects in close collaboration with a collective of artists and scientists. Electronic and digital media form the basis of a unique artistic way of thinking and the engine for aesthetic experiences and reflection. This results in hybrid performances that question and redefine commonly accepted performative parameters.
C.A.P.E. Enter through the looking glass and discover worlds you never thought possible with CREW’s state- of-the-art immersive technology. Take an unconventional walk through Brussels and meet some of its inhabitants. Or explore a world of devastation as you wander amidst the rubble of a post-tsunami stricken area in Japan. Or let a little girl take you by the hand to guide you through her fantasy world.
Unlike any other medium, CREW’s ground-breaking device puts you right into the heart of the experience.
KEY PERSONNEL: Communication & development: Leen Laconte; Artistic direction: Eric Joris; Management & bookings: Hilde Teuchies; Artistic team: Chantalla Pleiter; Technical coord.: Koen Goossens. MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 20 x 15 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 3
22 DE STIJLE, WANT INSTALLATION
HARRIE VERKERK & GERHARD OLTHAAR | FRANS BROOD PRODUCTIONS 3h POSTBUS 703, TILBURG, NL, 5000 AS +32 (0) 9234 1212 NL [email protected] | www.destijlewant.nl
Hailing from The Netherlands, De Stijle, Want (meaning “the style, because…”) is a veteran arts company that’s produced all manner of fleeting theatre pieces with outrageous comedic tone. Embracing bizarre incidents and accidents at the core of their ideas, these performances can run from 20 seconds to 20 minutes, either in tents or as mobile sideshows that rove through fairgrounds, streets and outdoor performance sites. In 2009 the company celebrated its 25th anniversary by staging a 25- hour, non-stop performance festival featuring 25 different acts for audiences in Neerpelt, Belgium.
TIME MACHINE
De Stijle, Want… is proud to present its latest invention: an unparalleled journey through time. The most advanced particle accelerator ever, where neutrinos are raised to an unprecedented voltage of 8000 billion electron volts (8 TeV), enables man to take a giant leap in time. This leaves no one indifferent; you will leave the Time Machine as a different person. When you emerge from this futuristic experience in our cyclotron you will find yourself briefly dizzy. And all in less than a minute! Time has never passed so quickly before.
KEY PERSONNEL: Harrie Verkerk, Gerhard Olthaar No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 2
23 DIRECTIE & Co. THEATRE / DANCE
YVONNE VAN DEN AKKER | DIRECTOR 30’ FAZANTENWEG 37 HS, AMSTERDAM 1021 HK +31 6111 98150 NL [email protected] | www.dedirectieenco.nl
The Directie & Co. is a collective with Yvonne van den Akker and Judith Hermarij in the artistic heart. This collective makes site-specific theatre and street theatre that is physical, raw, female and always includes the environment as a key player. Their theatre is close to the audience, allowing them to have an experience rather than watching a performance from a distance.
LAUNDRY XL
Laundry XL is a street theatre performance by six women and a large pile of sheets.
Laundry is the main ingredient for a fleeting drama that passes by. Six laundry ladies roam the city and transform it into a world of white laundry. Holding a tight household together, these fanatical laundry women sometimes go a bit overboard with their emotions.
The performance takes place in two locations. The audience can decide to see the part at the start or end location or to follow the show from beginning until the end.
Laundry XL opens the senses: you have to see, smell and experience it.
KEY PERSONNEL: Directors: Yvonne van den Akker and Judith Hermarij MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 2 locations, each 20 x 6 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 6
24 FANFARE LE S.N.O.B. DANCE / MUSIC / SPECTACLE / THEATRE
DIDIER RIVIÈRE 35’ LE MOULIN DU ROC, 9 BOULEVARD MAIN, BP 405, NIORT CEDEX +33 (0) 549 171167 FR [email protected]| www.fanfarelesnob.com
Since 1994 Fanfare Le S.N.O.B. have been developing their reputation in the street arts world and are now recognised at local, national and international levels. Composed of musicians and actors from the Poitou-Charentes, Fanfare Le S.N.O.B. are driven by the desire to defend the values of proximity, gratuity and social mix in public places.
OPUS II
An extraordinary musical experience not to be missed! Magically gliding through the crowd come this incredible troupe of musicians, dressed in surreal robes with the most unusual instruments you’ve ever seen and performing the music of Mike Oldfield, Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd with a twist! Gliding on hidden electric scooters under their robes and creating elaborate choreographed routines, Fanfare Le S.N.O.B confound your expectations with every note, twist and turn!
MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 2.8 x 1 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 10
25 FLIPPING THE BIRD CIRCUS / MUSIC
JESSICA EDWARDS | DIRECTOR + ROSALYN NEWBERY | PROD. MANAGER 20’
+44 (0) 7719 404184 UK [email protected] | www.flippingthebird.co.uk
Flipping the Bird is an award winning young company, specialising in collaborative and site-specific work. We like finding theatrical images in novels, poems, and stories. We make work that is contemporary, iconoclastic and irreverent. Our work is wide ranging, from taking over abandoned restaurants to making plays in proscenium theatres. Most recently, Flipping the Bird created Jekyll & Hyde, a smash hit sell-out show at this year’s Edinburgh fringe. Jekyll transferred to the Southwark Playhouse in September for a month’s run. Flipping the Bird is made up of members from different creative disciplines: a director, a composer, a movement director, and an actor.
THE ITINERANT MUSIC HALL
Roll up! Roll up! And gather round The Itinerant Music Hall. A rag-tag troupe of delightful miscreants reels into town to tell you their tales of woe. Varsickle Tilley, Glass Eye and Piccadilly Johnny are on a journey to find their way back home.
They are the world’s smallest (and only) travelling music hall outfit: an upright honky-tonk piano and a tumble down stage, strapped onto a bicycle. A blend of storytelling, cabaret, improvisation and high- jinks vaudeville.
Commissioned by Lyric Hammersmith, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Watford Palace Theatre and Latitude
KEY PERSONNEL: Director: Jessica Edwards Production manager: Rosalyn Newbery MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 6 x 6 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 10
26 HAYWOOD HIX
JON HICKS | ARTIST 35’ 49 PETERCHURCH HOUSE, COMMERICAL WAY, LONDON SE15 1NF +44 (0) 7952 666585 UK [email protected] | www.haywoodhix.com
Jon Hicks has performed in the outdoors arena since 2000 with an internationally renowned solo act. He also performs in cabarets and theatres solo and with acclaimed variety troupe Slightly Fat Features. Mark Haywood is an artist who works on public commissions, community led art projects and activity based consultation events. Also producing his own self-initiated work. Matt Rudkin is a performer, director, writer and puppeteer, creating works for physical theatre and street theatre. He is a senior lecturer in performance studies at The University of Brighton.
WORKS
Haywood Hix is a collaboration between artist Mark Haywood and performer Jon Hicks. Works is their first show. A Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg-esque contraption, assembled by two workmen, using items taken out of a garden shed with a roof opening, catapulted cat finale. The performers are silent, with a soundtrack of music throughout.
The show was originally created with the support of Escalator Outdoor Arts, The Arts Council’s Grants for the Arts and Sea Change Arts. It premiered at Out There Festival, Great Yarmouth, in September 2013.
KEY PERSONNEL: Director: Matt Rudkin (of Inconvenient Spoof and formerly The Incredible Bull Circus) MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 15 x 5 x 7 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 3
27 HELEN CHADWICK SONG THEATRE THEATRE (INDOOR SHOW)
PENNY MAYES | PRODUCER 75’ 47-49 WOOD STREET, BARNET EN5 4BS +44 (0) 7790 456169 UK [email protected] | www.dramatic-solutions.co.uk
War Correspondents is the second song theatre performance created by composer Helen Chadwick and choreographer and co-founder of Frantic Assembly, Steven Hoggett, (Olivier Award winner for Black Watch) following the success of Dalston Songs commissioned by the Royal Opera House. Helen and Designer Miriam Nabarro have interviewed war correspondents covering Iraq, Chechnya, Georgia, Afghanistan, Liberia and Bosnia, including Giuliana Sgrena who was taken hostage in Fallujah, Iraq, and subsequently shot at by the US army.
WAR CORRESPONDENTS
While reporting the outbreak of war, a journalist is held at gunpoint, caught in the no-man’s land between two nations.
Testimonies, music and physicality fuse into a powerful, multi-disciplined song cycle performance which depicts the extraordinary stories and life changing experiences of war journalists - men and women who risk their lives in extreme circumstances.
Supported by Arts Council England, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Royal Greenwich Festivals and Old Royal Naval College. Commissioned by Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Sage Gateshead and New Writing North for Durham Book Festival. Produced by Dramatic Solutions.
KEY PERSONNEL: Creative Team: Helen Chadwick and Steven Hoggett; Designer: Miriam Nabarro; Producer: Dramatic Solutions MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 4 x 4 m (Indoor Show) No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 7
28 HURyCAN DANCE
ARTHUR (LÉO LUDOVIC) BERNARD BAZIN CALLE DEL PRINCIPE 35, 5C, MADRID 28012 +34 63628 1109 ES [email protected] | www.hurycan.com
Candelaria was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where her contemporary dance training at Oscar Araiz’s ARTE XXI dance school began. Earning a Bachelor of Performing Arts Honors Degree in Contemporary Dance by the Northern School Of Contemporary Dance in Leeds in 2007, she moved to Spain and participated as a dancer and musician in Cadiz with choreographer Jivko Jeliazkov from the Derida Dance Company later moving to Madrid and collaborating with directors such as Miguel Angel Alvarez, Sebnem Yuksem and Lucyanna Pettengyl. Parallel to her activity as a dancer, in 2010 she began collaborating as a choreographer with Aruthur Bernard Bazin, together creating the piece Discordio, winner of the 1st price at the First Vallecas Chorographic Competition in Madrid.
In 2013 HURyCAN was created and they premiered their new work Je Te Haime, awarded at the 27th International Theatre & Dance Fair, Huesca (Spain) as best dance performance.
TE ODIERO
The Te Odiero project started in an artistic residency at La Gomera Choreographic Center in 2011, then in Madrid. Te Odiero is a research process of personal and physical expressivity. Te Odiero is a learning process that leads us into the search of personal language based on the physical expression. The performance questions our limits and the basic communication through the movement. We intend to investigate who we are, stimulating the link with the audience through a communicative space, open to the imagination, the humour and the emotions. We believe in the dance as a balance: a mixture of identities, bodies and actions. A highly communicative and accessible language.
KEY PERSONNEL: Choreography and interpretation: Candelaria Antelo and Arthur Bernard Bazin No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 2
29 INUA ELLAMS POETRY
INUA ELLAMS | ARTIST 15’
+44(0)7960 103473 UK [email protected]| www.inuaellams.com
Inua Ellams is an award winning poet, playwright and performer. With a style influenced by both classical literature and hip hop, Inua crosses 18th century romanticism with traditional storytelling and contemporary diction, loose rhythm and rhyme. Inua mixes the old with the new.
Over the two days of Greenwich Fair Inua will be running short interactive poetry workshops as well as writing an original composition to be performed on Sunday. On both days, Inua will be asking participants to meet him for a quick, tiny interactive haiku poetry workshop on Twitter - A Twaiku poetry workshop.
To take part, participants should have a twitter account and should come ready to use it. Inua and the participants will write together and share the poems on twitter with the hash-tag #gdifhaiku added to the Twaiku. Inua is willing to read participants poems back to them and all the poems from the day will be available online should anyone search #gdifhaiku on Twitter.
Commissioned by Greenwich+Docklands International Festival.
30 JOAN CATALÁ CIRCUS/DANCE/THEATRE
MELINA PEREYRA | PRODUCTION ON TOUR 40’ APARTADO POSTAL 209, BARCELONA 08080 +34 617512528 CATALONIA [email protected] | www.mikaproject.es (SPAIN)
Joan has been working as an actor and acrobat since 2003 in shows, cabarets and large events on the national and international level, with companies such as Circus Sincler, Bolna Kist, the Barcelona Forum on Cultures, La Fura dels Baus, Sarruga, Mortimers and Klezmer Circus. He has participated in several festivals around the world and has participated in several European tours in various theatres and festivals. In 2009 he started with the Daraomai Company. He is currently active with the Circus Klezmer and Daromai companies and works on new processes of creation and residencies investigating movement, theatre and circus.
PELAT
Pelat is the first piece by artist Joan Catalá, an original show combining dance, theatre and circus, where, within a circular space, the public becomes involved in the relationship between a man and a wooden pole. Silence is used to generate expectation and trigger magical, spontaneous participation. In this risky artistic undertaking everyone contributes directly or indirectly in an inimitable shared ritual, everyone is part of a moment when the ‘here and now’ harbours a deep connection with tradition and the work and movement of many different bodies with the same goal.
Coproduced by Fira Tàrrega, Graner, Ajuntament de Barcelona and Generalitat de Catalunya. With the collaboration of Cronopis Espai de Circ (Mataró), L’animal a l’esquena (Celrà-Girona), Festival Sismògraf (Olot), Teatre Municipal de l’Excorxador (Lleida), Trayectos (Zaragoza), Festival TNT (Terrassa) & Asociación Cultural Ulls Art (Barcelona).
KEY PERSONNEL: Artistic Director: Joan Catalá; Art consulting: Melina Pereyra, Jordi Casanovas, Pablo Molinero, David Climent; Production on tour: Melina Pereyra; Production and distribution: Gabriela Marsal, Leila Barenboim. MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 12 - 14 m diameter No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 2
31 LIGHT THE FUSE DANCE/THEATRE
GEMMA FAIRLIE | DIRECTOR 25’ 62 JEDDO ROAD, SHEPHERDS BUSH, LONDON W12 9EQ +44 (0) 7780 685917 UK [email protected]
This piece marks the start of a collaboration between directors Gemma Fairlie and Neil Bettles. Following a recent discussion about practice and inspiration we realised that working together would enhance and test our own practices, and ideally create something visually and physically fresh. With shared backgrounds that involve working with Frantic Assembly, Complicite, Told by An Idiot and Upswing Aerial, we have a wealth of experience in creating work that explodes onto stages and provides a visceral and surprising event for an audience.
FULL STOP
This is the bus shelter where anything can happen: queues become jousting matches, little old ladies spark international incidents and humans turn into dinosaurs. From the 2am revellers having their own party on the roof to the late night shift workers dreaming of romance, Full Stop takes you through an action packed 24 hours at a bus shelter in this anarchic show.
Commissioned by Lyric Hammersmith, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Watford Palace Theatre and Latitude.
MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 9 x 6 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 3
32 LIGHT UP THE HOUSE DANCE
SARAH WEATHERALL | ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 30’
+44 (0) 7970 626636 UK [email protected]| www.welightupthehouse.com
Sarah Weatherall trained at the Slade School of Fine Art. She has worked in live-arts since 2003 when she joined Shakespeare’s Globe as Assistant to the Artistic Director and now works freelance as an arts producer and writer. In 2012 she co-produced Mark Rylance’s Pop-up Shakespeare with a cast of 50 actors for Festival 2012 & the Mayor of London and her first radio drama Storm was broadcast on Radio 4 (Radio Times pick of the day).
FUTEBOL: THE ALTERNATIVE WORLD CUP
When young footballer Charles Miller returns home to Sao Paolo from Southampton in 1894 he brings a football with him. Never seen before in Brazil, workers go football crazy.
The Brazilian game is recognised by the world as a unique dance-like form of football and The Alternative World Cup is the story of how the first ball in Brazil caused a sporting and social revolution. Fusing Samba with freestyle football moves, Futebol is highly physical, humorous and brilliantly choreographed by Temujin Gill, lead choreographer, 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.
KEY PERSONNEL: Director: Angela Ekaette Michaels; Choreographer: Temujin Gill; Designer: Sophia Lovell Smith; Composer: Jim Pinchen; Producer: Light Up the House, Sarah Weatherall MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 10 x 10 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 6
33 LOD MUSIC THEATRE/ INNE GORIS INSTALLATION/MUSIC/PARTICIPATION
HANS BRUNEEL 15’ BIJLOKEKAAI 3, GHENT 9000 +32 (0) 9266 1133 FLANDERS [email protected] | www.lod.be (BELGIUM)
LOD music theatre is a Ghent production house for opera and music theatre. For over twenty years now, it has guaranteed the creation of pioneering artistic work. LOD works with a range of artists (composers Kris Defoort, Dick van der Harst, Jan Kuijken, Dominique Pauwels, Daan Janssens and Thomas Smetryns, director Inne Goris, actor/writer/director Josse De Pauw, visual artist/theatre maker Patrick Corillon, director Fabrice Murgia and philosopher/writer Pieter De Buysser). Together they work on different kinds of productions in which a wide array of artistic genres meet.
DAYDREAM
Come in. Settle down. Close your eyes, listen. Are there bees living in your ears? Has the sea stopped crying? Is the house sighing? Let the music caress you (inside a 40’ shipping container).
Create your own virtual story/fantasy, return to the essence of listening in a delightful 15 minutes. Originally commissioned for MIF11’s Music Boxes, Daydream drives the imagination. Together with Ruimtevaarders’ designer duo, composer Dominique Pauwels and the Ghent production house LOD, Inne Goris creates a place of calm where the outside world is only a hum in the distance.
Produced by LOD muziektheater, Manchester International Festival. Co-produced by MiramirO Ghent, Crying Out Loud, London.
KEY PERSONNEL: Concept: Inne Goris; Music: Dominique Pauwels; Design: Ruimtevaarders (Karolien de Schepper & Christophe Engels); Technical coordination: Nic Roseeuw; Production manager: Okita Daels. No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 2
34 MARC BREW COMPANY DANCE
DAVID MORGAN | AGENT 25’ 5 SALISBURY TERRACE, LIVERPOOL L15 4HD +44 (0) 7779 237493 UK [email protected] | www.marcbrew.com/marc-brew-company
Marc Brew Company fuses a fierce physicality with tender expression to explore an emotional narrative in dance. Grounded in contemporary technique and classical ballet and drawing on the unique physicality of each performer, the work with disabled and non-disabled artists is honest, unsentimental and recognizably human.
(I)LAND
Faced with life on a deserted island, three characters uncover a means of escape back to civilisation. As the narrative unfolds, the characters find pieces of a vehicle that will take them off the island. They work to build a craft, only to find it will carry just one of them.(i)land centres on a 6 ton pile of sand representing the land the characters find themselves in, and this provides a safe dance space in which Marc can explore movement in solo, duet and trio forms away from his wheelchair. Drawing inspiration from The Lord of the Flies, Lost and Castaway, and the legends of the Highland clearances and Australian outback, (i)land aims to engage audiences in questions about perceptions of the body in dance, the politics of disability, isolation and exclusion, ingenuity and invention.
Commissioned by the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme Open Fund, Without Walls, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Hat Fair, Mintfest and Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival.
KEY PERSONNEL: Choreographer/Performer: Marc Brew; Performers: Rebecca Evans, Aaron Vickers, Rob Heaslip; Composer: Scott Paterson; Designer: Will Holt MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 10 x 10 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 5
35 METRO-BOULOT-DODO AERIAL PERFORMANCE
FRANK WILSON | PRODUCER 40’ c/o EVENT INTERNATIONAL, 4 MILLENIUM PLACE, DURHAM DH1 1WA +44 (0) 7970 648449 UK [email protected] | www.metro-boulot-dodo.com
Metro-Boulot-Dodo became an associate artist at Curve in Leicester in September 2013. MBD collaborates to create innovative cross art form work. Since 1997 the company has produced an impressive catalogue of arts projects, including installations, performances and audio tours and has a strong reputation for consistently creating work that combines high production values with innovative and contemporary presentation.
Metro-Boulot-Dodo is known for a unique blend of live performance, original soundtrack and cutting edge new media, all combined with an unforgettable quirky sense of humour. The company has diversified into areas of live art, outdoor performance, large scale and site-specific installation, visual art and new media. SAFE HOUSE
Gravity-defying aerial performance mixed with stunning large scale projections uncover the secrets of a house like no other. Acrobatic performers scale the walls and dive from the roof in an exploration of our obsession with home ownership. Members of the creative team behind As The World Tipped combine with award winning Metro-Boulot-Dodo to create a show that will bring the house down.
Commissioned by Without Walls, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Stockton International Riverside Festival. Co-commissioned by Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Brighton Festival and Leicester City Council.
KEY PERSONNEL: Artistic Direction: Metro-Boulot-Dodo; Producer: Event International; Aerial Choreography: Wired Aerial Theatre; Animations: Draw and Code. MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 100 x 50 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 17
36 MIMBRE ACROBALANCE
SILVIA FRATELLI | PERFORMER 30’ ROOM 19 SPRINGFIELD HOUSE, 5 TYSSEN STREET, LONDON E8 2LY +44 (0) 7814 650917 UK [email protected] | www.mimbre.co.uk
Mimbre is a local and international circus and street theatre company, producing innovative and extraordinary performance work and promoting a positive, strong image of women. Mimbre have toured shows extensively over four continents and have amazed many thousands of audience members with their strength, agility, grace and skills. BENCH
Bench is Mimbre’s new show for 2014, a show about the everyday dance of life, our urban landscape, and a cavalcade of characters who come and go; viewed through the eyes of a woman who observes, makes friends, confronts or ignores the people who pass… occasionally turning upside down to see if the world looks better from that angle.
Bench is a series of sketches bound together by our silent narrator, talking through movement and acrobatics, and accompanied by a beautiful score by Ted Barnes. During the show three performers magically transform between ages and gender, caricatures and characters. Spellbinding movements are mixed with mundane moments and brief encounters.
KEY PERSONNEL: Artistic Director: Lina Johansson; Performers: Silvia Fratelli, Alcina Mendes, Rebecka Nord; Set Designer: Michalis Kokkoliadis; Costume Designer: Kasper Hansen; Composer: Ted Barnes. MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 8 x 6 x 6 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 3
37 MOXIE BRAWL DANCE
SARAH BLANC | ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 20’ FLAT 10, AMHURST COURT, AMHURST PARK, LONDON N16 5AX +44 (0) 7877 156817 UK [email protected] | www.sarahblanc.com
Moxie Brawl produces work that entertains, excites and establishes new worlds for audiences to experience through dance theatre. First created in Dundee with Katie and Fin Miller, Moxie Brawl is now based in London and led solely by Sarah Blanc.
Originally from Ireland and passionate about dance - Sarah works across the dance and theatre sectors as a performer, choreographer, movement director, teacher and online TV presenter. She is co-founder of Inside Dance TV - an online magazine style TV show centred around the UK contemporary dance scene. Sarah performs with various companies, most recently Pestiferous, Animated State Dance Theatre Company, Caroline Bowditch and Natures Calling. She is an Artist with Candoco Dance Company.
SIT BACK
It’s 1942. London Transport Clippies from the 601 trolleybus service are having lunch between shifts. Their imaginations go on a physical journey exploring and transforming the space and their relationship. We dance with food, on benches and use voice to interact with the audience, with language from the workers handbook of the 1940s. We use images and film of the female workforce during WW2 and explore its influence.
Sit Back has been co-produced by Candoco Dance Company and supported by Watermans Arts Centre.
MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 7 x 7 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 4
38 NUNO SILVA DANCE
SARAH TRIST | MANAGER 25’ 11 BEAUFORT ROAD, KINGSTON UPON THAMES KT1 2TH +44 (0) 7757 654790 UK [email protected] | www.darkershadeoffado.com
Known for his muscular physicality and fine singing, Nuno Silva is an individual artist with a career spanning contemporary dance (Henri Oguike, Luca Silvestrini and Javier de Frutos), classical opera (Mahogany Opera, Cork Opera) and West End musicals (Cabaret, The Light Princess).
“Is there no end to Nuno Silva’s talents? We saw him as an eloquent dancer with Henri Oguike Dance Company, and as the strutting gym Nazi in Protein Dance’s Dear Body he delivered the funniest movement-theatre performance of 2009. In Arthur Pita’s full-length work God’s Garden, Silva reveals himself as a fine singer of fado, the melancholy song-poetry of Portugal.” - Luke Jennings, Guardian.
SOUL OF FADO
Sensual contemporary dance, soul-bearing Portuguese fado and a flaming gondola are the main ingredients in this fire and dance performance infused with the steamy atmosphere of Lisbon’s Old Quarter.
Best known to contemporary dance audiences for repeatedly winning the Audience Prize in The Place Prize ’08 - Dam Van Huynh choreographs Soul of Fado using his distinctive style and signature.
Commissioned by Without Walls, Hat Fair and Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival.
KEY PERSONNEL: Artistic Director: Nuno Silva; Choreographer: Dam Van Huynh; Composer: Abel Arez; Performers: Nuno Silva, Sabbio Janiak, Matt Lackford and Stephanie Dufresne; Costumes: Yann Seabra MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 9 x 9 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 5
39 NUTKHUT THEATRE
SIMMY GUPTA & AJAY CHHABRA | ARTISTIC DIRECTORS 40’ SUITE 27, GUNNERY HSE, 9-11 GUNNERY TERR., ROYAL ARSENAL SE18 6SW +44 (0) 20 8301 8417 UK [email protected]| www.nutkhut.co.uk
Formed in 2003, Nutkhut exists to fulfil the creative vision of Simmy Gupta and Ajay Chhabra. As an ideas-led, art focused Performance Company, we create work mixing performance, dance, film, participation and a distinctly British comedic sensibility and eccentricity. We are a major presence in the outdoor performing arts sector, and work regularly with festivals and events across the UK and beyond.
Two British Asian artists - Simmy Gupta and Ajay Chhabra, lead Nutkhut. The company is unique as it draws inspiration from the Artistic Directors’ backgrounds and mixes it with a very British sense of humour and mischief.
SWYRON
A unique blend of Vedic and Victoriana, Swyron is a steam punk revolutionary, situated somewhere between the Mahabharata and H.G. Wells. A timeless, universal and mythical character complete with full armour, Swyron journeys on his time-travelling, steam-billowing machine - delighting and astounding audiences with his intergalactic adventures.
Swyron can be offered as a stand-alone walkabout or with an additional contemporary dance performance inspired by the twin paradox theory.
No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 2
40 PAGE ONE THEATRE CHILDREN’S THEATRE
CHLOE & MILES| ARTISTIC DIRECTORS 20’ 28 BREAMER AVENUE, LONDON SW19 8AZ +44(0)7401 997773 UK [email protected] | www.pageonetheatre.com
Page One Theatre believes that children should be offered inspirational theatrical experiences. The company is committed to staging accessible and innovative theatre full of surprise and delight with a universal appeal. Combining movement and puppetry with both traditional and new technologies they create original and vibrant new stories for children and their families.
Page One Theatre is run by co-artistic director team Chloe Stephens and Miles Mitchell, along with producer Flossie Waite and education director Davina Freedman. The company collaborates with a wealth of other artists from varied backgrounds who join the team to produce ensemble theatre for young audiences.
MADE UP STORIES FROM MY UNMADE BED
It’s time to wake up – but one girl doesn’t want to. She’d rather stay snuggled under the covers until her dreams escape her head and become adventures around her bed! Pillows become clouds and beds are boats as the sheets billow above, inviting you into a world of colour, puppets, feathers and fun. This explosive new performance from Page One Theatre is a visual treat throughout; you won’t want to wake up anytime soon.
Commissioned by Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Watford Palace Theatre and Latitude
KEY PERSONNEL: Co-Directors: Chloe Stephens & Miles Mitchell; Education Director: Davina Freedman; Co-Producer: Emily Thommes; Performers: Ajjaz Awad, Bryn Fitch, Christien Bart Gittens, Charlotte Law, Stefanie Sommer. MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 10 x 10 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 9
41 PERIPLUM PARTICIPATORY INSTALLATION
DAMIAN WRIGHT | DIRECTOR 20’ 52 MILNER ROAD, BRIGHTON BN2 4BP +44 (0) 7796 876062 UK [email protected] | www.periplum.co.uk
Formed in 1999, Periplum create interactive, immersive and content-driven work from spectacular to intimate in scale. The company produce new design, music and text and have previously been commissioned by the National Theatre, the British Museum, Without Walls Street Arts Consortium and the National Government of Mexico. Periplum also produce large-scale touring shows, participatory and educational collaborative projects.
IMAGINARIUM
Enter into the Imaginarium and unlock secret stories from Wonderland. This delightful immersive experience is a series of installations merging modern technology and short films with natural surroundings, puzzles and traditional parlour games. Inspired by Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, the films and installations explore the hidden stories and journeys of unsung heroes from Lewis Carroll’s classic books.
Commissioned by PANeK: Kent Festivals Consortium; funded by Arts Council England; development supported by Applause Rural Touring.
KEY PERSONNEL: Written, designed & directed: Claire Raftery & Damian Wright MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 10 x 10 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 3
42 RAMSHACKLICIOUS THEATRE
JACK STODDART | AGENT 60’ STUDIO 9, EDGAR BUILDINGS, GEORGE STREET, BATH BA1 2FJ +44 (0) 7765 668674 UK [email protected] | www.ramshacklicious.com
Ramshacklicious Theatre Company makes collaboratively devised theatre with the audiences’ experience at the centre. Over the years, the Ramshacklicious team has built in strength. We now have a wonderful array of artists with an enormous range of skills including performers, set designers, directors, musicians, writers, devisers, composers, puppeteers, puppet designers, scenic artists, costume designers and sound designers.
We collaboratively devise shows through our innovative, playful and exploratory creation process. We look for exciting links between all the composite parts and artists, making space for the emergence of new approaches to theatre-making, which brings unexpected results.
GRIME
Grime tells the story of a man fighting his disillusioned way to happiness through greed, manipulation and violence. He lives with his dysfunctional family in a makeshift, haphazard shack constructed on top of a burger van. Their complicated mesh of co-dependency, lies and deceit is all that holds them together. Grime follows the trials and tribulations of a family intent on survival in harsh times. Part absurd, part constructed reality Grime is a modern day soap opera that aims to push the boundaries of possibility.
Commissioned through the ZEPA 2 network and supported by Without Walls.
KEY PERSONNEL: Artistic Director: Jack Stoddart; Director: Flick Ferdinando ; Set design : Will Datson MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 10 x 12 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 6
43 RARA WOULIB MUSIC/THEATRE/PARTICIPATION
J. MARCHAISSEAU 90’ 73 AVENUE DE LA CORSE, MARSEILLE 13007 +33 (0) 698 827911 FR [email protected] | www.rarawoulib.org
A collective uniting musicians, actors, visual artists, costume designers, pyrotechnicians, and set constructors, Rara Woulib creates theatrical and acoustic events in diverse spaces (towns, squares, parks, forests, subterranean passages, etc...) Inspired by traditional Haitian Rara, the collective has developed its own dreamlike form of theatre, which nourishes itself on asphalt, architecture, and the inhabitants of the urban landscape. The artistic approach of the company is deeply rooted in the exploration of the city, its streets and its history. Rara Woulib proposes custom-made site-specific creations that narrate and transform urban space. Contact us in order to begin building a dream together.
DEBLOZAY
When the sun sets on the summer solstice, the dead rise from their graves to dance in the streets of London. Dance with the dead. Haitian culture looks at death in a very different way to our own. It is not a hushed-up affair of coffins and closed doors but a loud celebration of all that life has to offer, in this world and the next. As the sun sets, join French company Rara Woulib in conjuring the ghosts of the city’s’ departed for this joyous celebration. See for yourself why the dead have so much more fun than the living.
Co-produced by LIFT, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival and David Binder Productions, as part of Festivals in Transition — Global City Local City with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union and the Institut Français.
No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 16
44 SHAUN PARKER & COMPANY DANCE
HANNAH SHARPE | PRODUCER 25’ BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME, THORP STREET, BIRMINGHAM B5 4TB +44 (0) 121 6891093 UK [email protected] | www.danceexchange.org.uk/spill
Shaun Parker & Company is an exhilarating and bold new Australian dance company that has exploded onto the international dance scene. The company creates critically acclaimed dance productions, which are renowned for their integration of stimulating choreographic forms, arresting musical scores and theatrical invention.
Winner of two Australian Dance Awards, a Banksy Award, and the Argus Angel Award in the UK - Shaun Parker’s work has been described as ‘so cutting edge it actually wanders off the edge of any single- word definition…’
SPILL
Spill is an outdoor production by Shaun Parker created specifically for playgrounds, aiming to take dance to the heart of our local communities. Combining quirky, dynamic dance with high-energy street gymnastics, the dancers in this unique performance scramble around, over, under and through swings, slides and roundabouts.
In 2012 Spill was part of the Outdoor Dance Programme, led by DanceXchange, in partnership with Dancefest, Dancescape and Dudley Performing Arts. This production was programmed as part of Dancing for the Games and the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Spill was performed in 36 locations and 112 performances across the UK.
KEY PERSONNEL: Director: Shaun Parker; Original music: Nick Wales; Assistant Choreographer and Rehearsal Director: Corey Baker; Dancers: Wren Ball, Lewis Major, Nathan Johnston , Sabrina Ribes-Bonet; Creative Director: David Massingham; Producer: Hannah Sharpe No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 7
45 THROUGH & OUT DANCE
JORGE CRECIS | CHOREOGRAPHER 20’
+44 (0) 7983 529744 UK [email protected]
Devised by choreographer Jorge Crecis, Through & Out is a cross-over between dance and rope- skipping that paves the way for a new choreographic game. In this sneak preview, four exceptional dancers will unite in electrifying motion with unpredictable outcomes.
As part of Big Dance 2014 on Saturday 12 July, hundreds of dance-skippers from the local community will join the professional dance artists for Through & Out: Skipping Extravaganza. An immersive audio experience, with an original soundtrack by The Artist, will take you into the heart of the action as audience and performers converge in one epic event in the iconic surroundings of Greenwich Park within the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Presented by Greenwich Dance. Commissioned by Greenwich Dance for Big Dance. Supported by Well London and Charlton Athletic Community Trust.
No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 6
46 TIATA FAHODZI MUSIC/DANCE/THEATRE
THOMAS KELL | AGENT 25’
+44 (0) 203 435 6508 | +44 (0) 7985 962459 UK [email protected] | www.tiatafohodzi.com
Tiata Fahodzi was founded in 1997 to produce contemporary African theatre for the British stage. Since 2010 its artistic director has been Lucian Msamati. Tiata Fahodzi’s name unites two West African languages and translates as “Theatre of the Emancipated”. It seeks to place the stories and creativity of Africans at the heart of British Theatre and to foster new and emerging talent.
Recent successes include Roy Williams’ Joe Guy, the tenth anniversary revival of Joe Penhall’s Blue/ Orange and Oladipo Agboluaje’s popular Nigerian political dramas The Estate (2006) and Iya Ile (The First Wife) (co-produced with Soho Theatre, 2009; Olivier Award Nomination).
In 2012 the company co-produced Belong by Bola Agbaje with the Royal Court Theatre, winning big audiences and sharing in the 2013 Olivier Award given to the new writing season at the Court.
THE LEGEND OF HAMBA
The Legend of Hamba is a contemporary African mystery. In 1914 Hamba set off to war. He won and lost empires, became a king, a beggar, a poet and a thief. A hundred years later he is no closer to home.
Commissioned by Without Walls, Watford Palace Theatre, Hat Fair, Brighton Festival and Greenwich+Docklands International Festival.
KEY PERSONNEL: Director: Lucian Msamati; Choreographer: Coral Messam; Designer: Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey; Sound Designer and Composer: Helen Skiera; Consultant: Nathan Curry. MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 7 x 7 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 5
47 TOMBS CREATIUS CHILDREN/INSTALLATION/PARTICIPATORY
PEPPE CANNATA | MANAGER 6h CALLE CASTELL 34, BELLPUIG, LLEIDA 25250 +34 657 143177 CATALONIA [email protected] | www.tombscreatius.com (SPAIN)
For 13 years now Tombs Creatius company (created by Toni Tomás) thinks up, designs and builds artisan games out of wood, for people of all ages.
COLORS DE MONSTRE
Colors de Monstre (Monster Colours) is a collection of 25 games, built from wood and designed for an audience of all ages’. The player has to use a mix of coordination, skill and strategy to solve each particular puzzle. With colourful illustrations, they create an expressive and exciting atmosphere in the streets and plazas.
KEY PERSONNEL: Direction: Toni Tomás; Construction & Production: Tombs Creatius; Illustration: Carles Porta; Managers: Toni Tomás and Peppe Cannata MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 400 m2 No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 2
48 VOALÁ AERIAL SPECTACULAR
GASTON LUNGMAN | COMPOSER/PRODUCER 45’ AVENIDA ALBUFERETA 73, 3 PISO PUERTA 1, MADRID 28038 +34 695 259 433 ES [email protected] | www.voala.info
Voalá Company is a scenic experimentation group, in which the main characteristics are aerial choreographic sequences mixed with live music on stage. The directors have a vast experience in conducting multimedia shows and producing big events, working together since 1999. In 2008 they decided to form Voalá Company and under this name, created two shows that thrill and amaze all audiences: Voalá Station and Muaré.
MUARÉ
Prepare to immerse yourself in a psychedelic world in which aerialists descend from giant revolving ‘optical art’ mobiles accompanied by electrifying live music. Enter Spanish/Argentinean company Voalá’s fluorescent wonderland as gorgeous aerial choreography combines with the visceral thrill of sky-diving in a show in which anything is possible. Internationally renowned for their virtuosity in turning the sky into their stage, Voalá were last seen at GDIF in 2010, and in this, their latest aerial extravaganza you can expect to be swept up in an experience in which performers swoop down over your head, whilst pyrotechnic effects and live music from Duchamp Pilot deliver a sensory overload.
KEY PERSONNEL: Creation and Direction: Gaston Lungman & Roberto Strada; General Production: Gaston Lungman; Tour Manager: Alejandra Joanes; Executive Producer: Voalá No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 24
49 WET PICNIC CIRCUS/THEATRE
BECKY MILLS 40’ STUDIO 92, 80 HIGH STREET, WINCHESTER SO23 9AT +44 (0)1962 629339 UK [email protected] | www.wetpicnic.com
Wet Picnic is a devised theatre ensemble that creates high-impact visual and physical theatre for everyone. Not bound by space or location, the company takes its shows wherever there are people to watch: indoors and outdoors; in conventional and unconventional spaces; in the UK and internationally; to audiences old and new. Using clown, slapstick, choreography and acrobatics, and with a particular interest in the eccentric and absurd, the company interrogates big human themes such as loneliness, loss and belonging, and produces work which reflects life in all its forms.
THE LIFT
Everyday a million moments sweep past with the blink of an eye; snatched conversations, passing images whispered encounters. Moments that pass too quickly for us to register, or that we forget, because we are too busy, too distracted or unengaged. But what would happen if we could capture these moments, and put them all into one, easy to access location? What would it reveal? What would it tell us about ourselves? The Lift is a roving theatrical experience that envelops its audience, welcoming them into a world of captured moments, giving them a surreal experience that they won’t forget.
Co-commissioned by Without Walls, Mintfest and Hat Fair.
MIN. SPACE REQUIRED: 5 x 5 m No. OF PEOPLE ON ROAD: 4
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