Archived Events

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2013

    Neil Bartlett

    Neil Bartlett

    Live Art Agency DIY Project

    Sun 3 Nov 7.30pm Admission free | Age 16+

    University of Chichester and Live Art Agency – DIY 10
    Acclaimed director and performer Neil Bartlett grew up in Broyle Close, just ten minutes away from the site of The Showroom. For six years, he cycled past it every day on his way home from school……Since then, his early notoriety ( performing naked in derelict warehouses; directing
    Complicite’s first award-winning show ) has lead to a career that has taken him to the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera House and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern – not neccessarily in that order ! – and now , for the first time in nearly forty years, he’s coming back to Chichester to make a new piece of work.

    Working with a group of local young performers for just 48 intensive hours, Neil is going to dive back into his past and create a new piece of performance that explores what it feels like to come back to the streets and buildings that he knew so well as a small-town teenager. What does it feel like to go back ? Is going back a good way to start going forward again?

    I LIVE HERE is being developed by The Showroom in association with LADA’s DIY programme.
    This first scratch Sunday night showing of the piece will be free, with no booking required – just turn up on the night for a glimpse of a very special artist at work.

    To find out more about Neil and his work, go to www.neil-bartlett.com.

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2013

    Caroline Horton & Company

    Caroline Horton & Company, Mess

    Mess

    Thu 5 Dec 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 14+

    China Plate presents Caroline Horton & Company – Mess

    Josephine is putting on a play – Boris and Sistahl help. It’s about anorexia. But don’t let that put you off. Unflinchingly they confront big issues (and extremely tiny ones). Today they will tackle a particularly thin elephant in the room. Obsession, addiction and not wanting to get out of bed: a play with songs from 2013 Olivier Award nominated Caroline Horton (You’re Not Like Other Girls Chrissy).

    Winner: Stage Award for Best Ensemble 2012.

    “Comes perilously close to genius and announces Horton as a major major talent”
    Time Out.

    www.carolinehorton.net

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  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2013

    Liz Aggiss

    Liz Aggiss, Survival Tactics

    Survival Tactics

    Thu 24 Oct 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

    From a glamorous, blonde bombshell in high-heels to a pigeon toed, bow legged, oddball in big pants – Survival Tactics upturns the usual perception of the female stage body on its head. Inspired by Ausdruckstanz, with a fascination for grotesque dance, and a penchant for British music hall, Liz Aggiss pays comedic homage to her historical mentors, and herself, through a seamless fusion of movement, text and film.

    “Liz Aggiss wowed us with her Survival Tactics, a bravura volley of agile mischief with ideas and limbs flying in brilliantly ridiculous directions”
    Mary Brennan Glasgow Herald.

    www.lizaggiss.com

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  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2013

    Scottee

    Scottee, The Worst of Scottee

    The Worst of Scottee

    Thu 17 Oct 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

    Scottee encounters past flames, ex-friends and people who no longer like him in attempt to find out where he went wrong. Scottee wants to find out what people really think of him. Why he pretended to have AIDS, what prompted him to steal money from his Nan, why did he pretend his friend committed suicide and what caused all this behavior in the first place? Performed in a photo booth you are exposed to four snap shots of his troublesome teens. This show will give you reasons not to like him – it is Scottee at his very worst.

    Scottee won Time Out Performer of the Year in 2010 and is currently an associate artist at Roundhouse and Duckie. He is a regular contributor on Radio 4’s Loose Ends and the creator of the ‘beauty pageant for fat people’ Hamburger Queen, variety show Camp and presenter of iTunes Top 10 podcast After The Tone. The Worst of Scottee is his debut solo tour.

    Directed by Chris Goode.

    Supported by Arts Council England. Developed with Roundhouse.

    “Director Chris Goode is a theatre-maker who’s up there with the very best”
    The Guardian.

    www.scottee.co.uk

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  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2013

    Flexer & Sandiland

    Flexer & Sandiland, Weightless

    Weightless

    Thu 10 Oct 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

    Weightless is the brand new work from Flexer & Sandiland. Celebrating the company’s 20th anniversary Weightless, in a tongue in cheek way, references its own historical position. It questions the ‘weight’ of history, both personal and aesthetic: what is it that roots us down physically and emotionally? What might it feel like to let go or take flight?

    Engaging and thoughtful, this show carries Yael Flexer’s recognisable stamp of witty text and wry humour combined with fast paced, space-hungry movement and a driving musical score by composers Dougie Evans and Karni Postel. A collaboration with Nic Sandiland, Weightless includes live digital projection and a sonic environment of disembodied voices and after images with text by Wendy Houstoun.

    “Dance that is unforced, unaffected, charming and smart”
    Time out.

    www.flexerandsandiland.com

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  • Archived Events/ Spring 2013

    Performing Place Symposium

    The ShowRoom Chichester

    An Open Invitation:
    PERFORMING PLACE SYMPOSIUM

    Saturday 1st June 2013, Chichester University, Bishop Otter Campus, Chichester.
    9.30a.m. – 5.00 p.m.

    The Dance and Performing Arts Department at Chichester University invite researchers, practitioners, artists and post-graduate researchers to a 1 day symposium that will explore, celebrate, problematize and articulate notions of experiencing, encountering, articulating and ‘performing’ place through creative arts inquiry.
    The symposium will include installation and performance work, academic paper presentations, informal discussions and opportunities to engage in dialogue with colleagues interested in exploring practices and processes of experiencing and ‘performing’ place, and associated notions of (amongst others) site-specificity, embodiment, mobility, location, space, place and performativity.

    The symposium aims to stimulate a sharing of knowledge and ideas in an informal, playful and participatory manner.

    The event will take place on Saturday, 1st June 2013 at Chichester University, Bishop Otter Campus.

    CONFIRMED CONTRIBUTORS:

    • Fiona Wilkie: ‘Walking/cruising/motoring: performing place on the move’
    • Carl Lavery: ‘Postgeopathological Ecologies: Simon Whitehead and the Body as Home’
    • Jane Bacon and Vida Midgelow: ‘Experiences of Skript: A micro-installation’
    • Virginia Farman: ‘Performance in Urban Spaces’.
    • Victoria Hunter: ‘Dancing-Worlding the Beach’
    • Gregg Whelan: ‘What I Run About When I Run About Running’
    • Pete Phillips: GIFT-TAKE-MAKE-GIFT: A one-on-one performance encounter (running throughout the day)

    The day will also include a work in progress performance of a new outdoor dance performance piece, Everyday Hero, which is a development of the Mass touring show by Bicycle Ballet. Everyday Hero has been made with participants with visual impairments and 3 sighted dancers, and tandem bicycles. The work employs the structure of the Hero’s journey to explore themes of heroism found in the real life experiences of people with visual impairments.
    This is a free event, tea and coffee will be provided on the day, attendees are advised to provide their own lunch as there are no catering facilities on campus on that day.
    Please email Vicky Hunter at v.hunter@chi.ac.uk to reserve a place.

    We look forward to welcoming you soon!

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2013

    Dancing for Tony

    Dance for Tony

    A Contemporary Dance Gala

    Saturday 4th May 2013 | 7pm | £15/£5 |

    In aid of St Wilfrid’s Hospice

    Master of Ceremonies: Richard Alston CBE

    Detta Howe
    Cai Tomas
    Yael Flexer
    mapdance
    3Fall Dance Company 2013
    Lîla Dance
    Replica Company
    Live music: Rod Paton

    Prices
    Concessions – Students and Senior Citizens £5.00
    Guests – £15.00

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    Suitable for ages 15 and above

    All the performers are giving their services in support of St Wilfrid’s Hospice. We are extremely grateful to Richard Alston, CBE, one of the most celebrated and revered figures of British contemporary dance, for agreeing to host the evening. He is Artistic Director of The Place, the UK’s premier centre for contemporary dance, and internationally recognised as one of the most inspiring and influential choreographers in British dance. Richard holds an honorary MA from the University of Chichester. This gala is a celebration in memory of my beloved husband Tony, who was a great supporter of contemporary dance and, especially, of dance at the University of Chichester. He died in April 2012. In his last months we were both sustained by the wonderful staff of St Wilfrid’s Hospice.

    Ann Nugent-Denison

    Dancing for Tony committee: Cathy Childs; Detta Howe; Natalie Rowland