Hello everyone!
Hope you’re well and having a good minute, hour, day, week.
I’ve been going through the stats for etude, to get a better idea of what’s been clicked , where intrest lies so I can get a better idea of what people want to see. It’s been interesting as the bigger names tend to get clicked on more. Isn’t too suprising as I think you’re more likely to get hyped for a new or archival piece of your faves. I know if, in a list, I saw a new Philippe Quesne alongside some new artists I’d never heard of, I probably would click on my favourite theatre makers name over people who are unknown to me.
But I want to know something from you all. If you have clicked on a piece that was new to you, took that risk, what piece was it and what made you click? Who is your new favouriute? For me it was probable cmd+c, who I have talked about a lot in etude. The reason I clicked was becuase I simply liked the promo image.
I’d love to hear from you all, I want you to write your fan letters to me about new artists you’ve discovered through etude. Simply reply to this email. This is mainly just for myself as it’ll help me shape etude over the coming months and allow me to focus on finding other peices by your favourites. I may do something with it in the future and if I do I’ll let you know.
Maybe you’ll find your new faovurite with this weeks slections.
The more you rehearse, the worse it gets by MEXA
from £2
Wednesday 9th March
Since its genesis, Brazil-based collective MEXA discusses the distances and proximities between the street and the museum, life and art, politics and aesthetics. These abysses and possibilities of building connection are the core of MEXA’s collaborative process. They blur the lines between the scripted and the unpredictable, between the demands of the past and the urgencies of the present.
The more you rehearse the worse it gets is an attempt to collectively build an artwork confined to a limited time frame, to see what could be created. Presented at Transform 21-22 as an online performance, the collective presents an electric, unfiltered presentation of process and performance.
from £10
Tuesday 8th until Saturday 12th March
Four seasons, four people, from four corners of the world collide. The strange city folds and unfolds around them, a story that opens up like a book to get lost in.
Set against the backdrop of Byker this powerful new play, HERE, by Lindsay Rodden is about finding sanctuary in the unlikeliest of places. About dancing on rooftops, blossom in winter, and re-writing the story of the city as your own. About two best friends with a library card, and the power they summon through friendship and books to make something magical. To say WE WERE HERE.
Be-Longing by Fay Nass, Meghna Haldar & Sammy Chien 簡上翔
$15
Tuesday 8th until Sunday 13th Macrh
Be-Longing is a theatrical film following four queer immigrants as they journey through multivocal understandings of love and exile. Using multiple languages and a non-linear approach, the performance dips in and out of improvised movement, ancient poetry, song, and confession. Painterly and fluid visuals punctuate the image of the performers on a black box stage as the film carries us along their embodied memories of migration and desire. Created in collaboration by three Canadian artists from Taiwan, Iran, and India. In Arabic, Cantonese, English, and Spanish with captions in English.
I’m at mass, come back soon by Oscar Gómez Mata
free
archive
What is a soul? Where does it live? Are we soul conscious or do we pass through life completely unaware?
Have we abandoned our soul only to save face?
"I’m at mass, come back soon" is a veritable liturgy, a theatrical mass in which we concentrate upon the soul. Soul as energy, the life-inducing vibration.
Oscar Gómez Mata offers a new performance full of all the philosophical, poetical, playful and political ingredients which make Alakran so unique.
Thank you for reading
See you next week
Josh xx