Reviews

Deborah Pearson: The Future Show

May 29th, 2014 by

In The Future Show Deborah Pearson tells us how things are going to be, for her, for us, from this moment until she thinks her last thought. Imagine how it would be to know the future.  This knowledge would create a terrible lock, trapping you inside yourself in each specific moment of now-ness, fully aware […]

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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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