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MUSIC DANCE THEATRE FILM LECTURES VISUAL ARTS WELCOME ARTS CALENDAR SPRING 2013 SO, WHAt’s new? Award-winning dance also comes from Theo Clinkard JAN MAR Funny you should ask: it’s a New Year; we’re presenting and Joe Moran in a double bill Ordinary Courage and lots of new work and new ideas and we hope you’ll Obverse, plus Theo’s short film, To Leap or Skip in an WED 9 LUNCHTIME Recital FRI 1 RUSH HOUR CONCERT enjoy discovering them with us. Emotional Manner (6 February). FRI 11 RUSH HOUR Concert WED 6 LUNCHTIME RECITAL MON 14 Pottery classes begin FRI 8 GUILDFORD INTERNATIONAL MUSIC TUE 15 Preview of MARK MICHAEL’S EXHIBITION FESTIVAL begins The first University of Surrey New Writers’ Festival takes In these pages you’ll find performances by Guildford Creative Writers’ Group UNIVERSITY OF SURREY CHAMBER CHOIR place on 15 and 16 March. Exploring Lewis Carroll and School of Acting; dance, theatre studies and music WED 16 Pottery/Painting & Drawing classes begin AND ORCHESTRA his relationship with Guildford via workshops, cabaret, students; professional performances; exhibitions, FRI 18 RAY THE SYMPHONOVA CONCERT panel discussions, interactive tours and competitions, lectures and festivals, often in conjunction with Painting & Drawing classes begin ACTUAL SIZE DANCE COMPANY established writers and aspiring authors, playwrights local and professional partners, created by university MON 21 Book Circle SAT 9 GUITAR GREATS WEEKENDS starts and songwriters will find something fascinating and academic staff, students and our peers. Some events TUE 29 Poetry Reading Group BIG BAND CONCERT inspiring. may still be in the planning stages; some of them SUN 10 GUITAR GREATS WEEKENDS take place in venues around Guildford as well as on MON 11 Preview of WEAK FORCE EXHIBITION There’s new thinking about how and why artists campus. Whatever they are, we know you’ll find it an FEB TUE 12 SURREY COMPOSERS CONCERT WED 13 LUNCHTIME RECITAL work together from The Weak Force, an international entertaining experience. THU 14 GSA: THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND opens collaboration between artists Matthew Sansom (UK), FRI 1 RUSH HOUR Concert TOM DOWD AND THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC Andy Thomson (NZ), Paul Cullen (NZ), Laresa Kosloff Why not make your New Year’s resolution to try MON 4 GSA: JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA opens TUE 5 Preview of ZOROASTRIAN MIGRATION FRI 15 RUSH HOUR CONCERT (Aus), Bruce Barber (Can), and Kim Morgan (Can) in the something new with us? EXHIBITION LONDON COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR Lewis Elton Gallery as part of the Guildford International WED 6 CROSER HUGHES CHAMBER MUSIC AWARD THE DHOL FOUNDATION Music Festival. GSA: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE opens Surrey New Writers’ Festival ANDY LAVENDER DANCE DOUBLE BILL SUN 17 GSA SINGERS: HERE’S WHERE I Stand The Festival springs into life in March bringing new Head of the School of Arts FRI 8 CROSER HUGHES WINNERS EVENT MON 18 Book Circle artists and programmes, as well as returning Festival SURREY ARTS YOUR PAINTINGS TRAIL TUE 19 Creative Writers’ Group IT MIGHT GET LOUD friends, to the University and to venues around SUN 10 COMPOSERS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS WED 20 QUATTRO MANI COMPETITION Guildford. Look out for performances in heritage spaces; CREATIVE PRESENTATIONS WEIGHTLESS a music documentary film series; new dance works WED 13 LUNCHTIME RECITAL SURREY SCULPTURE SOCIETY LECTURE BY GSA: THE COLOUR OF JUSTICE opens - Weightless, celebrating choreographer Yael Flexer’s ANGELA CONNER FRBS SHAKESPEARE PROJECT 20th anniversary and The Protocol Project, which invites GSA: ROMEO & JULIET opens THU 21 PIANO PLUS! the audience to try out digital effects; Guitar Greats, DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN FRI 22 SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE opens with John Wiliams, Craig Ogden and friends; and the FRI 15 RUSH HOUR CONCERT TUE 26 Poetry Reading Group high-energy drummers of The Dhol Foundation. There’s SAT 16 BRAHMS’ REQUIEM plenty of opportunity to find something new to enjoy. MON 18 Book Circle TUE 19 Creative Writers’ Group APR THE MAKING OF THE Extraordinary WED 20 LUNCHTIME RECITAL MON 8 Preview of BOBBIE BALES’ EXHIBITION FRI 22 BYRON WALLEN PROJECT University Box Office this Spring TUE 9 CAPTURING THE EPHEMERAL opens MON 25 WEAK FORCE EXHIBITION installation begins THU 11 In person and phone bookings: PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE TUE 26 Poetry Reading Group MON 15 Book Circle Open from 15 January 2013, 10.00 - 18.00 WED 27 LUNCHTIME RECITAL TUE 16 Creative Writers’ Group ENSEMBLES CONCERT TUE 29 Poetry Reading Group Events still available to book online: www.surrey.ac.uk/arts All GSA shows go on sale 15 January 2013, 10.00 KEY Please note there are reduced opening hours and closed periods over Christmas and Easter holidays. Please call MUSIC FILM the Box Office for further information. DANCE LECTURES THEATRE VISUAL ARTS 2 3 DANCE FRI 8 MAR, 19.30 ACTUAL SIZE DANCE COMPANY Box Office Mon – Fri, 10.00 – 18.00 PATS Dance Studio Actual Size is a student led dance This year Actual Size, co-directed T: 01483 686876 Tickets: £4, £2.50 students company, working with professional by Victoria Giles and Rachel Gildea, dance artists and developing their presents a diverse programme of Enquiries own work. In the past the company work made by visiting artists and E: [email protected] has worked with artists including the students themselves. Luke Birch, Annie Lok, Karen Da Founded in 2005 by Surrey Online booking Silva and most recently Rosie Dance students, the company www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/whatson Heafford (Second Hand Dance). continues to serve as a forum Actual Size has also been fortunate for students to explore movement enough to tour work and perform and choreography. at dance platforms such as Dancin’ Joe Moran Obverse (credit Benedict Johnson) Oxford in 2010. WED 6 FEB, 19.30 Actual Size Dance Company DANCE DOUBLE BILL Ivy Arts Centre Tickets: £12, £10 senior citizens, University staff £5 students, concessions New work by two exciting dance artists: OBVERSE BY JOE MORAN Commissioned for The Place Prize for dance sponsored by Bloomberg, Obverse by Joe Moran is a complex, detailed and choreographically intricate new trio that tests the remarkable virtuosity of its dancers to visibly transform their state of being, from moment to moment, in both body and thinking Commissioned in 2012 Obverse pursues formalism in choreography to liberate the poetics and immediacy of dance. ORDINARY COURAGE WED 20 MAR, 19.30 BY THEO CLINKARD WEIGHTLESS “We are defined by how well we rise after falling” FLEXER AND SANDILAND Theo Clinkard’s rousing new group work for six dancers and live piano Electric Theatre Tickets: £15, £12 senior citizens, University staff brims with visceral and eloquent physicality. T: 01483 444789 £5 students, concessions Ordinary Courage follows a community in repair and harnesses the capacity Weightless is a new work celebrating Yael Flexer’s 20th Weightless playfully references its own historical for movement and touch to communicate when words are not enough. anniversary as a choreographer. Engaging, thoughtful, position. It questions the ‘weight’ of history, both A luminous room lit by Zerlina Hughes and an original score by Alan Stones but with a cheeky wink, this show carries Yael’s personal and aesthetic: what is it that roots us down that incorporates Scarlatti and Bach provide the canvas for breathtaking trademark witty text and humour combined with fast- physically and emotionally? What might it feel like to performances. Clinkard completes an international, seven-strong cast paced, space-hungry movement and a driving musical let go or take flight? score by Israeli cellist Karni Postel. drawn from the likes of Random Dance, Akram Khan, Richard Alston, As the cast of international performers attempt to Siobhan Davies, Sydney Dance Company and Australian Dance Theatre. Weightless features an exciting digital element with ‘get on with the show,’ their meaningful glances, radio-controlled floating objects drifting through mutual teasing and asides to the audience subvert TO LEAP OR SKIP IN AN EMOTIONAL MANNER the auditorium and a multiplicity of sound objects; the choreography and unsettle their choreographer BY THEO CLINKARD disembodied voices immersing both audience and - who desperately tries to keep things under control performers. from the wings. A film about the making of dance. 4 5 EXHIBITIONS TUE 5 FEB – THU 21 FEB PREVIEW: TUE 5 FEB, 18.00 – 20.00 LEWIS ELTON GALLERY TUE 15 JAN - THU 31 JAN Mon – Fri: 10.00 – 17.00 PREVIEW: TUe 15 Jan, 18.00 – 20.00 Sat – Sun: by prior appointment LIKE SUGAR IN MILK: STORIES OF ZOROASTRIAN MIGRATION TO THE Admission free THE SOCIETY OF SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND Co-ordinators: FICKLE FINGERS BANDBAZI Patricia Grayburn, Jo Baker MARK MICHAEL Enquiries: Laugh or frown, giggle or flinch, you are sure to have something T: 01483 689167 / 686641 to say about Mark Michael’s art. E: [email protected] John Hayes, The Art Café & Jewry St. Gallery, Winchester www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/visualarts Satirist Mark Michael studied at Winchester School of Art and achieved First Class Honours in Fine Art. The Society of Fickle Fingers comments on how mobile technology, internet and instant messaging have influenced the new ‘Me generation.’ He says “It’s important for me not to censor my thoughts; I love the reactions and happenings that I see everywhere from books, movies, television, the bludgeoning of advertising and excessive fear from the media. The digital age seems to have isolated and insulated us, forcing us to change.” Like Sugar in Milk is a Heritage Lottery funded oral history and photographic exhibition. It marks the culmination of an 18 month project involving over twenty volunteers. Volunteer ‘memory collectors’ from Sussex and Surrey have captured the migration stories of twelve Zoroastrian Elders from the wider South East region.