Hello!
First of all sorry for the later etudes these past two weeks. I’ve been very busy!
Not much to add this week so please enjoy this weeks selections.
UNEASE by ALINE COSTA x TOMMY HUSBAND
free
available now
UNEASE is a new film which brings together the practices of Liverpool-based creatives Aline Costa and Tommy Husband. Aline is a Swiss performer and movement artist with a background in contemporary dance and physical theatre. Tommy is a writer, director, filmmaker and musician with a recent focus on music videos, working with Stealing Sheep & Ex-Easter Island Head among many others.
Filmed and directed by Tommy Husband over two days in the Invisible Wind Factory, UNEASE documents a new dance work devised and performed by Aline Costa. It is accompanied by a musical score created in response by Tommy. The dance piece takes as a starting point the female body, and uses movement to explore the tensions between beauty, fragility, strength and grace.
Aline explains; “When I started this project I found myself in the difficult situation of not knowing exactly the concept that I wanted to explore, nor the story I wanted to tell. As a first step, I took the body. I wanted to break its beauty, I wanted to make uneasy angles, to make it unnatural, almost painful... and from there a little story came up, back in time, back in some kind of surreal and mystical place. As a choreographer and as a dancer I really believe in the romantic idea that dance is a universal language. I have always been amazed at how much is understood with only a movement or gesture, and how much can resonate with each individual in different ways. Dance speaks many languages, whatever you understand of this piece is what you need to hear in yourself, what moves you, in your own story and your own experience.”
£7.99
Until 6th May
“I haven’t come here to drink tea – Toni,
we’re off out to find the nearest happy hour.”
Lucy and David are dating. Or at least, they’re trying to.
Faced with first-date disasters, a few crossed wires and Lucy’s mum, what they really need is a bit of space, a bit of fun – and ideally some independence. Escaping for the weekend to a caravan park in Somerset, it’s time for them to find out if their spark will finally catch, or burn everything to the ground.
Pay what you decide
Friday 29th & Saturday 30th April
iMelania is an audio-visual experience that takes place on your phone and desktop.
Set in a landscape of social distancing, social media, WhatsApp and Zoom calls, iMelania is an audio-visual experience that takes place on your phone and desktop.
Varjack-Lowry use Melania Trump as an avatar of an “acceptably” foreign woman, obscuring and questioning experiences of being foreign in post-Brexit Britain.
With the overwhelming nature of the global digital landscape, how do we use social media to engage with current affairs and connect? How do we use it to escape?
A playful, dizzying, online exploration between a duo of dual heritage women investigating borders and belonging.
What if...By Two Destination Language
free
Sunday 1st May
We think we can change it all. We think we have the imagination to change it all. We really do. So, to help with the changes, we are throwing an OPTIMISM PARTY! A party by and for desperate optimists. Welcome!
With the price of oil and gas going into the stratosphere funding military aggression against democracy, billionaires firing themselves on rockets into space, rising water levels and a run of once-a-century storms, the viral pandemic (and Boris’ Downing St parties) are hardly even news. Feeling helpless? Wishing someone would tuck you into bed and kiss it better? In 2020, a group of 12 artists came together to imagine better futures. Embracing their commitment to optimism, they’ll spend three hours dreaming it all better for you. Bring hope.
Following an online residency at the beginning of the pandemic, when it felt that everything really might change, this durational performance is a reunion. Like all reunions, it’s uncertain, but the artists are determined to attempt to recapture their sense of optimism for better worlds, better working conditions, better friendships and a better future.
free
Available until 5th May
A short film where it’s up to you to discover the narrative. One story, two timelines. Click to switch between the night before and the morning after.
‘We’d go mad, if we actually moved out somewhere like this’
A group of city-dwelling friends unite at a remote country house for a weekend away. The perfect opportunity to reconnect with nature.
When they find an old map of the grounds, a nocturnal hunt for buried treasure begins.
Hope you enjoy some great theatre this week
See you next week
Josh x