Writings

Hannah Sullivan: Echo Beach

May 27th, 2014 by

Hannah Sullivan has been collecting the way people dance. Looking and logging individual attitudes and details, storing them away to put into her show. In the way you dance is both a revealed intention and a great deal which you unintentionally reveal. We get to watch Hannah snap between portrayals or gradually find the next […]

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Les Slovaks: Opening Night

May 27th, 2014 by

The five dancers and one musician that form Les Slovaks are on stage as the audience settles, smiling out at us. They begin with a folk song, in perfect harmony. So far, so Slovakian. Then something happens. The dancers move upstage into a square of light, they huddle in the corner, and one by one break […]

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Alice Tatton-Brown: Ariel

May 27th, 2014 by

This is a delicate and evocative audio journey which takes us through Bristol Central Library on a search for Ariel, the subject of a series of photos found and fallen in love with by artist Tatton-Brown in an antiques shop. The language is imagistic and associative and the narrator has a charming warmth of tone, […]

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Nick Steur: Freeze

May 27th, 2014 by

A completely unique show based around a singular talent, Freeze! crackles into being around a man on his knees balancing rocks on top of each other while his voice, purposefully slow, floats out to us from a speaker, a distraction talking about distractions. The stones rest on large boxes made from mirrored glass, heightening the […]

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Fly Me To The Moon: Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2014

May 26th, 2014 by

Norwich ahoy! Tagged as ‘one of the UK’s big four’ festivals, Norfolk & Norwich (NNF) is also one the country’s oldest, if not the oldest, arts festival – it can trace its roots back to 1772, don’t you know! This year’s programme at NNF is a little depleted, compared to some recent years, it must […]

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