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Wine Games: Music and Dance
What happens when certain laws are simulated and certain other laws are no longer simulated? For Wine Games: Music and Wine Games: Dance Joe Stevens has constructed sequences using a program that generates music and dance respectively as determined by the random arrangement of colours in packets of Wine Gums. Audience members are invited to interpret the sequences using the props available.
The practice of Joe Stevens concerns the language of new media. This could be described as being a new form of literacy encapsulating the areas of systems, play and design. A graduate of the Contemporary Arts BA course at Nottingham Trent University and the Interactive Media MA at Goldsmiths University of London, Stevens works in performance, sculpture and installation. Methods have been developed through several residencies, including a six-month stay at the National Art Studio in South Korea, in addition to group exhibitions and a solo show in 2010.
There will be a private view of this work on Friday 11th of May from 6 to 8pm.
For How Much? / Underfoot
- Dates
- Thursday 10 May - Saturday 19 May
- Time
- 8:00 pm
- Days of the week
- Thursday - Saturday
- Ticket price
- £9.00
£6.00 (concessions)
£4.00 (southwark residents) - Tickets
- Available online from
For How Much
Faceless .... Distorted fingers reaching out to the skies... Spinning coins on the ground... Is this the cost of the goods we buy and consume? Is this the cost we do not have to pay?
Originally commissioned by the International Organisation for Migration U.K. (IOM) as part of their Buy Responsibly campaign, this dance theatre piece takes inspiration from the lives of the people who have worked under forced labour in India, Africa, South America and parts of Europe and from the sculptures by London-based artist May Ayres and her critique of consumerism and capitalism.
- Choreography
- Annarita Mazzilli
- Original music
- Andy Higgs
- Lighting Designer
- Simon McCabe
Underfoot
Underfoot is an intimate and sideways exploration of that which we share and stand on. Dwelling, shifting and zooming through structures and improvisation.
"The moment one gives up one's verticality, the first thing one discovers is that even the smoothest ground is not flat. The ground is grooved, cracked, cool, painful, hot, smelly, dirty." (Andre Lepecki)
Travels in Architecture
Travels in Architecture. Great or even modest buildings are like a string of jewels connecting the world, history and peoples.
Artist Suzie Balazs exhibits a selection of pastels and watercolours depicting buildings she has seen travelling around Britain and the world, providing a counterbalance to Machines for Living's bleaker exploration of architecture and its impact. It is a celebration of interesting and beautiful buildings and the feelings of community they can evoke.
There will be a private view of this work on Monday 28th of May from 6 to 8pm.
Machines for Living
- Dates
- Tuesday 22 May - Saturday 16 June
- Time
- 8:00 pm
- Days of the week
- Tuesday - Saturday
- Ticket price
- £12.00
£10.00 (concessions)
£8.00 (southwark residents)
£8.00 (Previews Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 May) - Tickets
- Available online from
- Post-show discussions: Tuesdays 29 May, 5 & 12 June
Reclaim the heavens! Cities in the sky! Concrete solutions!
Two architects believe they can design life and move into the tower block they have built; engineered to encourage kinship and social harmony. But can their marriage survive the strain of cuddling up to cockroaches, as the building degenerates and the blame falls on them?
Combining black humour with a tragic scope, Let Slip explores the legacy of Britain’s tower blocks in
an irreverent, dynamic and visually arresting production.
Let Slip was founded at the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris. Machines for Living is the company’s second show, after its debut Hamster Town was staged at Camden People’s Theatre in August 2011.
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Spoonfed
ID=Y?
The Fantastical Adventures of [Not] Being with You plays with ideas of established gender. Written so that A & B can be either gender, it is only in performance that gender is embodied. It will be accompanied by ID=Y?, a video installation by Jennifer Stokes, which suggests that it is within the performativity of everyday life that a person's gender identity and gender expression reveals itself.
ID=Y? aims to create a real representation of androgynous performativity of women in the UK; reminiscent of the punk DIY film-making of the Riot Grrrl movement. It features self-identified androgynous women that have represented and expressed their gender performativity for camera using a variety of art forms. It also prompts its viewers to question their own understanding and acceptance of the androgynous, gender identities that form part of our society today.
The Fantastical Adventures of [Not] Being With You
- Dates
- Tuesday 19 June - Saturday 7 July
- Time
- 8:00 pm
- Days of the week
- Tuesday - Saturday
- Ticket price
- £12.50
£10.00 (concessions)
£9.00 (southwark residents)
£8 (Previews Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 June) - Tickets
- Available online from
- Post-show discussion
- Wednesday 27 June
- Tweet Tuesday
- 26 June
- Casting call
- We need to cast 2 male actors for this production full details
"We are about to embark on ’Us’. From here on out, all we do, see, hear, taste, smell, and touch will be Us. Different parts of and points in Us. This will not be a direct flight."
Two men share their timeless love story via moments alternately charming, childish and churlish. Join A & B in a funny, quirky piece of physical theatre full of fantastical adventures.
Told using only playful storytelling and a suitcase of props...
"Our final destination is Final Destination Unknown. Estimated arrival time: we'll know when we get there".
Tweet Tuesday on the 26th of June: The one show when you won't have to put away your mobile! Join us for a special performance when you'll have the freedom to live-tweet your reactions to the play as it happens. This is a unique opportunity to engage with the performance and your fellow audience members.
