To see the world through the eyes of another is a difficult task. Yet Jo Bannon asks through her new work if that is even possible: can we ever really see each other as we really are? Exposure is the first in a projected series of works exploring concepts of ‘looking’. Set in the pitch dark, it […]

The Con Artist is a new work by New York composer / theatre artist John Moran. One ongoing feature of John Moran’s work makes portraits of peoples and places in sound through the careful arrangement of everyday utterances and conversations. After visiting Mayfest previously with the semi-autobiographical John Moran + Saori (…in Thailand) he has been asked back […]

It’s 1pm, time to press Play on my MP3 player. The friendly voice in my ears asks if I’ve come alone? I am instructed to go sit in a quiet place on the Brighton station concourse, away from others, where I can notice the man with the newspaper, the woman sending a text, farewells and […]

Overworlds & Underworlds was a large site-specific project for the Cultural Olympiad created by the Quay Brothers working in collaboration with Leeds Canvas, a consortium of local arts groups. It mixed installation, sculpture, film, dance performance, and, above all else, atmosphere. The Underworld part of the event took place in Leeds’ Dark Arches, an amazing subterranean […]

The number of straight young men encouraged into ballet schools might plummet after two and half hours of brazen campery in Matthew Bourne’s triple bill. Presented to celebrate his company’s 25th anniversary, it is a timely selection for a year of Jubilee and Olympic festivities, a lighthearted, nostalgia-ladened programme of exquisitely performed classical ballet with […]