In 1971 photographer David Hamilton caused a stir by releasing a book, Dreams of a Young Girl, filled with nude, or almost nude, soft-focused and dreamy images of teenage girls on the brink of adulthood. Looking at them now, they still provoke an uneasy tension – the likes of Nabokov’s Lolita, and the films Leon […]
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Circa: Depart
July 1st, 2016 by Dorothy Max PriorIt’s a rainy evening, a funereal grey sky broodily tipping it down – as befits an outing to a cemetery. We could be extras in a film about the undead. As night falls, we are led off into the woods in a silent procession. As we go deeper, feet tramping through mud, twigs crackling beneath […]
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Andrew Schneider: YOUARENOWHERE
June 28th, 2016 by Rebecca JS NiceCreated by Brooklyn based artist Andrew Schneider, YOUARENOWHERE has toured internationally to great renown. Its UK appearance is a collaboration between Gate Theatre, Shoreditch Town Hall and LIFT 2016. YOUARENOWHERE is exactly how I feel right now. Fingertips poised above the keyboard trying to articulate a response to something out of this world… At the […]
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Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker: Extreme Voices
June 28th, 2016 by Lisa WolfeNo neat folding of T-shirts here. Toco Nikaido and her fearless, 33-strong troupe are going to turn the theatre into a playground and give us all a ‘happy, hysterical time’. So for 45 intense and colour-saturated minutes they bombard the audience with sound, light, dance and liberally flung stuff. It’s messy, loud, thrilling and exhausting […]