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Link Puddle: Events 30 July -1 August

Written by Apri Cot on July 29, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Millie Brown Live Performance SHOWstudio.com are inviting controversial vomiting artist Millie Brown to their LiveStudio Friday 30 July, Millie, the puking performance artist, who shared the screen in the Puke On Gaga film, is returning to the Bruton Place studio for a one-off performance. Accompanied by the operatic musings of singers Patricia Hammond and Zita Syme, Millie will explore the relationship between music and performance art via self-induced vomiting. SHOWstudio.com are broadcasting her performance live via their LiveStudio starting at 11.30am BST Friday morning. If you’re watching, try to schedule your breakfast a couple of hours before.

Tate Modern Live: Michael Clark Company Michael Clark and his dance company transform the Turbine Hall into a space for experimentation and practice while they prepare a new work created in response to this monumental space. This unique display of live art provides an extraordinary opportunity for Tate visitors to witness the artistic process behind Clark’s choreography. Tuesday–Saturday, 13 July – 30 August 2010. FREE, no bookings taken.

Hackney Wicked Art Festival Now in its third year Hackney Wicked 2010 will be bigger and better than ever. Three days of galleries, open studios, live art events, flea markets, open air film screenings, exhibitions, 4 live music stages, the world famous Coracle Regatta and more. 30 July -1 August.

Always Coming Back To You For one-night-only, Always Coming Back To You encompasses a range of artistic practices and artworks mounted onto a procession of carnival floats – from a hot-headed existentialist ice cream vendor to a citadel for the travelling preacher housed in us all; an artist’s compass to a float that juggles imagery from the gravedigger scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the South African Kaapse Klopse festival; a pugilisté to a Painter determined to clear things up. 31 July at Mile End Art Pavilion 6-9pm, FREE

Future Cinema presents Blue Velvet Future Cinema, creators of the acclaimed Secret Cinema, presents a very special tribute to the late, great Dennis Hopper with a unique screening of David Lynch’s 1986 cult classic Blue Velvet on Saturday 31 July, 7.30pm till late at The Troxy, 490 Commercial Road, London, E1 0HX. Tickets £15.00 (£12.50) – over 18s Only.

Stranger Than Fiction A regular platform celebrating the art of improvisation in performance. This month featuring a motley congregation of dance, music and theatre artists, at Church on the Corner (a converted pub, no spire!), 64 Barnsbury Rd, Angel, N1 0ES, £5 (including refreshments) doors open 7.15pm – latecomers may not be admitted.

The London Alternative Fringe Festival A showcase of alternative performance, with events ranging from the bizarre to the beautiful, the sumptuous to the seedy and the opulent to the just plain odd. The festival includes Cabaret, Circus, Vaudeville, Burlesque, Fetish, Live Art, Experimental Theatre and Performance. Anyone who is staging an event in August is welcome to include it in the Alternative Fringe. 1-31 August.

Posted in Cabaret, Cabarets, Choreography, Festivals, Films, Free, Improvisation, Link Puddle, Live Art, Performance, Screenings, Theatre, Tributes, art | Tagged Always Coming Back To You, Future Cinema presents Blue Velvet, Hackney Wicked Art Festival, Millie Brown Live Performance, Stranger Than Fiction, Tate Modern Live: Michael Clark Company, The London Alternative Fringe Festival

Eco Art

Written by Milkman on July 29, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Pangolin’s Ark are holding an event Art’n'Seek in oh-so-eco Stoke Newington on Sunday August 1st between 12-7pm.

Pangolin’s Ark say,

Pangolin’s Ark began when I was making a willow sculpture in a park due to lack of studio space. The interest it received and the conversation it created with adults, as well as children, was really exciting and also reminded me how much I love stumbling upon artistic tit bits in unexpected places

It’s free, there’ll be Art and good intentions. Check it out if you’re around…

Posted in Events, Free, Uncategorized | Tagged Free, Pangolin's Ark, Stoke Newington

Hail the Old Puritans

Written by Apri Cot on July 29, 2010 — Leave a Comment

28-29 August Tate Modern presents Charles Atlas/Michael Clark, a series of brilliant 70s/80s films celebrating Clark’s collaborations with artist Charles Atlas, interpreter of dance, theatre and performance on video.

I’m quite excited!

Be sure to catch Programme One Hail the New Puritan, 1985–6, 84 min, Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended.

A vivid invocation of the studied decadence of the 1980s post-punk London subculture, Hail the New Puritan is an exuberant and witty day-in-the-life ‘docufantasy’ starring the British dance celebrity Michael Clark and punk drag legend Leigh Bowery.

Also featured is the first UK screening of Torse, Atlas’s 1977 two-screen collaboration with Merce Cunningham, presented in the Turbine Hall, Parafango with performances by Karole Armitage, Michael Clark and Philippe Découflé, a Charles Atlas pastiche of provocative dance, new music, pop design and costuming, narrative, documentary and media references, and the satirical work Because We Must, another collaboration between Atlas and Clark.

Torse is FREE, other screenings are £5 (£4 concessions) booking recommended!

Posted in Collaborations, Films, Free, Performance, Screenings | Tagged Charles Atlas, Michael Clark, Tate Modern

Clockworks and Star Gates

Written by Apri Cot on July 28, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Following a sell-out London run, Fourth Monkey Theatre Company (who’s behind Lab10) is presenting Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, with the lead role of Alex played by a woman, at The Space on the Mile at The Radisson at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe 6-21 August.

Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film has become synonymous with what you’d expect A Clockwork Orange to be, however, Fourth Monkey has taken on the challenge of bringing Burgess’ official adaptation to the stage – watch the trailer if you feel curious.

Connected with Kubrick who’s connected with A Clockwork Orange is ‘The Last Twenty Minutes of 2001′, an exhibition by the Berlin-based artist Sergej Jensen currently showing at the White Cube Mason’s Yard. Exhibition closes 28 August.

The title of the show alludes to the visionary finale of Stanley Kubrick’s ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968), where the hero, Dave Bowman, travels through the psychedelic ‘Star Gate’ and ‘beyond the infinite’. Jensen’s new paintings invoke what the artist describes as ‘floating around in a useless but essential space; an environment where ‘beyond the infinite’ – should you be looking for it – could equally be found in the dust on a kitchen floor’.

Posted in Exhibitions, Festivals, Performances, art | Tagged A Clockwork Orange, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Fourth Monkey Theatre Company, Sergej Jensen, The Last Twenty Minutes of 2001, White Cube Mason's Yard

Ultra Variety Show

Written by Apri Cot on July 27, 2010 — 1 Comment

Lab10 Theatre Collective is looking for writers, actors, performance artists, puppeteers, musicians, dancers and choreographers for the first show of a new series of Lab10, an  ultra-variety show and experimental theatre laboratory featuring ten performances for ten minutes each on the first Thursday of the month, ten months a year, starting   Thursday 7 October. The performances take place in the Basement at the Leicester Square.

Open to all submissions and performance suggestions, there will be no limitation to the imagination of Lab10 Theatre Collective in curating the evening and therefore they insist there should be no limitation in yours when submitting your work – anything goes! Explore, Experiment and Express, the three E’s of Lab10.

10 things Lab10 wants you to know:

1. Lab10 Performance Laboratory is a place to do brave work, experiment and risk failure.

2. Lab10 is a curated performance event on designated Thursdays every month.

3. Lab10 is a place where new artists can show early work, and more established artists can work outside their genre.

4. The event is called Lab10 because each piece can be no longer than 10 minutes and there will be no more than ten performances a night.

5. After ten minutes of performance a bell will sound and the lights will go off – we mean it, really – 600 seconds and out (yes, even if you’re still performing)!

6. While we would love you (or someone else) to write about Lab10 – we respectfully ask you not to review individual pieces. We don’t want the artists to censor their ideas because they are worried about a “bad” review. We want this to be a true performance laboratory.

7. After the performance you are invited to the bar where you can talk to the artists about the work you’ve just seen. Pick three artists to talk to, tell them what let you into their work and what kept you out.

8. All genres of work are welcome – dance, performance art, music, visual arts, installations, film, slideshows, spoken word, staged readings, whatever…

9. There is a participation fee of £15.

10. If you want to perform at Lab10 write to: miafarrell@mac.com or call Mia on 0208 442 0722. Or fill out a form confirming your interest via the Fourth Monkey Theatre Company website

Posted in Opportunities, Performances, Showcase | Tagged Fourth Monkey Theatre Company, Lab10, Lab10 Theatre Collective, showcase

The Hair Collector

Written by Milkman on July 25, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Diesel – the fashion brand responsible for current terrible ad campaign where they apparently sell more than clothes but offer philosophies on life also – made a curious series of adverts last year involving Allie Crandell lounging in a bath of hair. Maybe I am a bit late but maybe you are too; these films are too bizarre to miss. Watch all three.

Posted in Fashion, Films | Tagged advertising, Allie Crandell, Be Stupid, Diesel, Hair Bath

It’s a Natural Talent

Written by Apri Cot on July 23, 2010 — Leave a Comment

[via Mark Berry]

I watched this with my hand in front of my face. I’m one to get squeamish if someone pulls their neck around their mouth and then sticks their tongue out yes.

‘Do you have to stretch every day to keep it stretchy?’ Ha!

Posted in Frolics, Videos | Tagged Mr. Stretchy Skin Man, Scott Mills

Link Puddle: Events 23-25 July

Written by Apri Cot on July 23, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Ivana Muller Sharing After having run a workshop at Chisenhale Dance Space this week, choreographer Ivana Muller will be sharing some of the work created with the 16 participants at Chisenhale 4pm 23 July. Drinks in the lounge after.

Tender Flix Tenderpixel’s experimental film festival 22-24 & 27-30 July, screenings daily at 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm at 10 Cecil Court London WC2N 4HE – an opportunity to view contemporary experimental films from all over the world. Tender Flix premiere DVD launch night 24 July 5-8pm. All screenings are FREE.

In Case We Don’t Die A group exhibition presenting 12 contemporary artists from Berlin, London and Copenhagen, all travelling down similar creative paths, investigating the power of ritual, spontaneous bewitchments, visions of the future, and a kind of “supernatural” presence that sometimes reveals itself during the creative process. The exhibition is an attempt to visualize the already existing, natural communities and connections as opposed to the “designed” communities currently found in contemporary art as well as society in general. The theoretical starting point for the exhibition is an investigation into the constant slippage, or cross-over, between various types of media, that is visible in the work of the artists included in the exhibition – transitions between film, performance, painting, installation, objects, music / language / rhythm, and drawing. 23 July – 27 August (private View 23 July 18.30pm – 21pm) at Vegas Gallery.

No Idea Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence with Improbable Lisa and Rachael wanted to make a show together but they didn’t have any ideas. How do you make a show with no idea? Turn to the public. Armed with a tape recorder, they went on to the streets and asked people to take a good look at them and imagine what their show could be about. Who should play the main character? Who should be the funny one? What should the story be? Using verbatim theatre, comedy double-act and a splash of song and dance they recreate their encounters in this extraordinary show directed by Lee Simpson. Young Vic, 21- 31 July £17,50 (expensive I know).

Read our review of No Idea here

Learn to Dance in a Day… Lindy Hop! Back by popular request, this workshop is ideal for dancers who are keen to learn something new. Throw yourself in 24 July 11-12.30pm for a bit of Charleston, 1.00-2.30pm a bit of Six Beat Swing, 2.45-4.15pm Eight Beat Lindy Hop (this is when it get’s really fun!). Teachers are David Zilkha & Annie Ryan, workshop takes place at Cafe 1001 (back room), 91 Brick Lane E1 6QL. £12 for one class, £22 for two classes or all three for £28.

Posted in Classes, Exhibitions, Festivals, Link Puddle, Performances, Screenings, Sharings, Video Art, Workshops, art | Tagged Annie Ryan, Cafe 1001, Charleston, Chisenhale Dance Space, David Zilkha, Eight Beat Lindy Hop, In Case We Don’t Die, Ivana Muller, No Idea, Six Beat Swing, Tender Flix, Tenderpixel, Vegas Gallery, Young Vic

Tanz im August 2010

Written by Apri Cot on July 22, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Tanz im August, Germany’s largest dance festival (so they say), brings together about 30 productions from about 20 countries, workshops, lectures, discussions and films in Berlin from 19 August to 19 September. Presented by some of the big names in dance (Forsythe, Jérôme Bel, Xavier Le Roy, Meg Stuart, Alain Platel, and more) plus a few of the new generation getting in the game, the works focus on the themes; human rights and dance history.

For the full list of artists go here

Posted in Dance History, Festivals, Films, Performances | Tagged Alain Platel, Forsythe, Human Rights, Jérôme Bel, Meg Stuart, Tanz im August, Xavier Le Roy

Twin Peaks Extravaganza

Written by Milkman on July 21, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Twin Peaks lock-In at the BAC!

They are clearly anticipating a speedy sale but how fun would this be!? The whole of Twin Peaks on a big screen straight through, ideal for tv series addicts (like me).

You can buy tickets from 1st of September at 10am, screening 23rd and 24th of October but David Lynch is worth such advance consideration. Good stuff.

Posted in Events | Tagged BAC, David Lynch, tv series, Twin Peaks