Hello everyone
I’m really excited about this weeks selection. I think there’s a great array of shows and I hope you find something you love.
Below are this weeks selections.
seven methods of killing kylie jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones
£10
Until 17th April
seven methods of killing kylie jenner explores cultural appropriation, queerness, friendship and the ownership of black bodies online and IRL.
“It’s just two two tweets to help me vent my frustrations. It’s really not that deep.”
Holed up in her bedroom, Cleo’s aired twenty-two WhatsApps from Kara and has cut off contact with the rest of the world. It doesn’t mean she’s been silent though – she’s got a lot to say. On the internet, actions don’t always speak louder than words…
“RETWEET
QUOTE TWEET
LIKE
I’m weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeak”
free
Available now
We are surrounded by images of sexual bodies. Commercials, cinema, magazines, internet, all kind of media expose the intimate and the erogenous. Flesh, fluids, skin, tits and muscles no longer belong to the late hours in a dark joint somewhere around the corner but to our daily life input. We can’t just click the “deselect” that controls the stimulation of desires and how it effects our view upon bodies in general. Pleasure is a must.
“to come” is Mette Ingvartsen’s third group work and was developed together with the performers. Working on notions of pleasure and desire, they question how bodies perform as part of a group, as part of an intimate relation, or as the part of being individual. When is the body in a state/space where it is governed by its desires and what kind of social situations contain such governing? It is a rethinking of how bodies can connect and reconnect so that new forms of enjoyment can arise. “to come” proposes an excessive body of pleasure, an overexcitement of speed and vibration produced by sensual figures. Colors and surfaces mix with a sensation of rhythmic pulsing.
Clean Cities by Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris
Free
Available now
Who cleans the world’s cities? And why are they mainly women and immigrants? Onassis Stegi’s well-traveled production “Clean City” has prompted a hybrid film. Four different directors follow the work as it tours four cities: Skopje, Sarajevo, Montpellier, and Istanbul. Female immigrants and cleaners – the work’s lead performers, and other women too – tell their life stories, and talk about the prejudice inherent in notions of cleanliness and purity, and the dangers of fascism, about women’s migration, and sexual assault. An anthology film on the border between documentary and fiction that springs from the filmed theater production by Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris.
Beauty and the Beast by Amanda Apetrea and Halla Ólafsdóttir
Free
Available now
You want to lean forward and then back in your chair. You feel safe, but you know that you are part of something dangerous. We don’t do hatred and contempt, we use love as a weapon. It is life and death. It is love. It's a place were beauty meets beast in a world were everything is possible.
"Forget Madonna, Prince, Elvis, Beyoncé, Whitney and Britney. Halla and Amanda never
needed their last names and now they take on the greatest mononymes in dance history and blow you away"
Pay What You Feel
Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st March
How long has it been since you spoke with your childhood best friend? How often do you miss them?
Grab a blanket and a pint of Ben & Jerry’s and join Tammy for a good old-fashioned sleepover - with a Zoom twist. Complete with PJ’s, midnight feast and Truth or Dare …
We will reminisce about that one true friend who got away and explore who’s replaced them, or hasn’t. Can we enjoy the close friendships as adults that we revelled in as kids? When can we finally mourn our friend breakups with ice cream and bad TV?
Soundtrack provided by Simon & Garfunkel. Audience participation provided by you (but you can turn your camera off if you wish!).
Thank you, as ever, for taking the time to read through etude and explore whats on this week.
See you next week
Josh x