Framed as an experimental collaboration between performance artists and costume designer, this show appears not quite as sold. Rather than accoutrements assembled before our eyes in tandem with the action, this is twenty-five minutes of one (already clad) woman talking. An entirely valid dramaturgy, just not what the marketing had led me to expect. Sullivan’s […]
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Harry Giles: Class Act
March 21st, 2013 by Tara BolandHarry Giles is an emerging performance artist whose work covers poetry, live art and performance, and whose pieces often make direct and specific social comment and analysis. Describing himself on his website as a performance maker whose work falls somewhere under the ever expanding umbrella of live art, Giles states that he ‘takes a subject […]
New International Encounter / Ira Brand: Tales from a Sea Journey / Keine Angst
March 27th, 2012 by Charlotte SmithFrom the tip of Iceland, looking south, there is only ocean between you and Antarctica. Unless, of course, a container ship with New International Encounter (NIE) happens to be in your sight line. The company developed Tales from a Sea Journey on a ten-day trip from Le Havre, France to the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. (They then […]