Archived Events

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2011

    Beady Eye

    Beady Eye, Bull Baby Balls

    Bull Baby Balls

    THU 20 OCT
    7.30pm
    Full £4 / Conc £3 / Schools & Colleges £3
    Age: 14+

    What happens in a second? A child smiles, an idea orgasms, a popcorn pops, a sperm penetrates, a bull stands in the sun, a gun fires… We have at least 25 arms. Using 70s cinefilm footage of babies playing naked in the garden, stop motion animation, an experimental Wendy house, cooking and Shiva, this is the beginning of a trip into the depths of a second.

    Beady Eye have been working in the studio at Chichester as part of their development of the piece. Tonight’s sharing will bring together these ideas before the show tours in spring/autumn 2012.
    Ideas that are being explored in the piece include baby and bull movement, childhood and memory, and what happens when we become aware of each instant.

    BULL BABY BALLS is being developed through a Puppet Centre Trust Residency at Farnham Maltings and an Incubate Residency at Little Angel and CSSD, with support from Theatre Royal Margate.

    Praise for Beady Eye’s last show Everything Must Go:
    “Full of delicious moments of invention.”
    Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

    www.kristinfredricksson.mfbiz.com.

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2011

    Little Bulb Theatre

    Little Bulb Theatre

    Operation Greenfield

    THU 6 OCT
    7.30pm
    Full £10 / Conc £6 / Schools & Colleges £5
    Age: 11+

    An exploration of music, faith and friendship

    Somewhere in middle England four unlikely teenagers are preparing for judgement day with ladders, Elvis and Forest Fruits squash – Stokely’s annual talent competition is nigh. With a stage full of instruments and an eclectic mix of recorded music, Little Bulb Theatre capture the confusing, awkward and beautifully naïve time of adolescence. The time when the once simple beliefs you held dear need re-adjusting to face the complexities of adulthood.

    “Recklessly talented…insanely brave”
    **** Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

    “their musicianship is superb, and their ability to conjure the pains of youth uncanny.”
    Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

    “…abundant sparks of originality and moments when the audience were left beaming.”
    ***** Fringe Review

    www.littlebulbtheatre.com.

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2011

    Kélina Gotman: Writing the ‘Dancing Disease’

    Dance, Performance and Medicine

    Thurs 19th May 2011
    1-2pm
    Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO6 (tbc)
    Free admission

    When I set out to start my research on ‘dance manias’, I thought I was looking at a transhistorical, transnational phenomenon: people banding together to dance, ecstatically, collectively, from India and ancient Greece to the raves of the 1990s. I eventually realised I was mistaken, and the ‘dance manias’ were a myth. What I discovered was that much of my literature was from medical sources, and most from the nineteenth century. This troubled me, until I realised that the real object of my research was nineteenth-century medical discourse, and the ‘invention’ of this epidemic disease. But what was the story I was to tell now? A philosophical one? A dance history? What if this wasn’t dance?

    Please note: free tickets for this production should be booked through the Chichester Festival Theatre Box Office on 01243 781312.

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2011

    Nic Sandiland: Witnessing Gravity through Movement

    Gravity 2011 Spring

    Installation

    Thurs 27th Jan 2011
    12-1pm
    Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO6 (tbc)
    Free admission

    In live performance both audience and performers experience a common pull of gravity creating a universal sense of “down” both on and off stage. Post-modern art however has frequently sought to question assumed stabilities through a shifting of the viewer’s perception. Nic Sandiland will talk about the research and production leading towards Gravity Shift, an installation which presents human movement where the pull of gravity has been dynamically distorted.

    Please note: free tickets for this production should be booked through the Chichester Festival Theatre Box Office on 01243 781312.

    Photo credit: Nic Sandiland
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2011

    Yael Flexer: The space in-between dancing and the everyday

    Yael Flexer 2011 Spring

    Dance and Choreography

    Thurs 3rd Feb 2011
    12-1pm
    Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO6 (tbc)
    Free admission

    Yael will discuss her on-going MPhil/PhD research encompassing three internationally touring productions of live work as well as interactive installations presented in Galleries and public spaces. In this presentation she will focus on the live works Shrink’d (2005-06), Doing, Done & Undone (2007-08) and her most recent work The Living Room (2009-11) looking at the ways in which these works point to, disrupt and traverse the theatrical frame engendering an informal and intimate mode of performance that asks the audience to consider the everyday.

    Please note: free tickets for this production should be booked through the Chichester Festival Theatre Box Office on 01243 781312.

    Photo credit: Chris Nash
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2011

    Tinned Fingers

    Tinned Fingers 2011 Spring

    The Last Romance Club [ever]

    Thu 20 Jan 2011
    7.30pm
    £3
    Age: 14+

    We are hopeful. We are looking for love. We want to get lucky. We want to serenade you outside your window at night. We want to give you our last rolo. We can’t sing but, for you, we’ll try.

    The Last Romance Club (ever) is an exploration of romance and loneliness and the ways in which the two are implicitly bound up in each other. It is about lonely hearts and late night radio stations, iconic film scenes and clichés and chance encounters: it is about nostalgia and the romance we imagine we might have lost, or never had, and it is about trying to be honest, which is always harder than we expect.

    BOOK NOW

    Tinned Fingers are a group of artists with backgrounds in writing, theatre and visual arts who work collaboratively to create experimental live performance and interactive events.

    www.tinnedfingers.co.uk.
    Photo credit: Chris Collier

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2011

    The Paper Birds

    Paper Birds 2011 Spring

    Others

    Thu 17 Mar 2011
    7.30pm
    Full £10 / Conc £6 / Schools & Colleges £5
    Age: 12+

    Paper, pens and envelopes offer peepholes into strangers’ worlds, where secrets, self portraits and confessions are shared though a series of armchair interrogations. Based on a six-month exchange of letters and emails with an Iranian artist, a prisoner and a celebrity; The Paper Birds offer a visual and political exploration of ‘Other’ women, deconstructing the stories and voices of women from east and west, from different sides of the television screen and different sides of the law.

    Through live music, movement, verbatim text The Paper Birds attempt to represent three absent women and question if it is possible to better understand ‘Other’ women or indeed ourselves.

    BOOK NOW

    ‘Others’ has been funded by the Arts Council England and supported by The Junction; Ustinov Studio Theatre; Camden People’s Theatre; Sheffield Theatres and The ShowRoom.

    “The Paper Birds continue to be physically ingenious, fresh-faced, thoughtful and funny”
    TOTAL THEATRE

    www.thepaperbirds.com

    Photo credit: Elle Moreton