A part of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival 2013, Dancing City brought a series of weekday lunchtime events to the squares and gardens below Canary Wharf’s looming structures, and culminated in a jam-packed programme on Saturday afternoon. Companies working with Chinese pole, German wheel and acrobalance were programmed alongside dance pieces featuring ballet, contemporary, and […]
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Dancing City at Greenwich + Docklands International Festival
July 19th, 2013 by Rebecca JS Nice![Maxine Peake, The Masque of Anarchy @ Manchester International Festival | Photo: Kevin Cummins](http://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/maxine-peake-masque-anarchy.jpg)
Maxine Peake / Sarah Frankcom: The Masque of Anarchy
July 19th, 2013 by G HiltonThe first time, as tragedy: 19 August, 1819 – magistrates order the cavalry in to a pro-democracy rally in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, killing at least fifteen and wounding 700; the protest becomes iconic as the Peterloo Massacre. The second time, as farce: 9 August, 2011 – rioters take over Manchester city centre; nobody, participants […]
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Tino Sehgal: This Variation
July 18th, 2013 by Edward TaylorFull marks to Manchester International Festival for discovering the Mayfield Depot and arranging for it to be used as a venue during the festival. It’s a huge cavernous space with big sliding doors and big rooms off the central hall. At the far end is a blocked off room which the stewards ask you to […]
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Thomas Martin and Pat Ashe: Beta Public
July 13th, 2013 by Sophie LondonBeta Public was a two-pronged thrust at exposing the underbelly of what computer games could mean in the world of theatre. The evening began below stairs with a loosely curated exhibition of video games on various devices, with creators hovering by, and culminated in a short programme of demonstrations and discourse on what gaming could […]
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Kieran Hurley: BEATS
July 12th, 2013 by Hannah SullivanJohnno McCreadie is 15 and lives in Livingston, Scotland. His friend Spanner is a bit of a bad laddie; his mum Alison is worried about those boys, about drugs. The D-man, a techno-head from the south of England, is taking Johnno and Spanner to a rave, Johnno’s first ever. Robert Dunlop is a policeman haunted […]