Thursday 18 February 2021

MA Contemporary Performance: Making Performance 1

MA Contemporary Performance students have spent the last six weeks making one-to-one performances exploring notions of transaction, agency and economy. Now they would like to invite you to experience the work live and online in a Zoom breakout room. Please book a time slot for each of the performances and experience a brief encounter that reconfigures the audience-performer relationship for an online space. Each piece lasts 15 minutes and is presented to one audience member at a time. Please find more information below.

Getting Ready

Alice Connolly

A one-to-one performance where you open the door and let me into your place of awakening, apprehension and preparation – your bathroom. Take a seat in your bathroom and wait for me to arrive, so that together we can journey through your morning battle of taking care of yourself in the present whilst getting ready for what comes next – the day.

Content advisory: Hints at nudity.

Showing: 8am / 8.40am / 9.20am / 10am / 10.40am / 11.20am / 12pm / 12.40pm

Please book on doodle.com

The Rose of a Memory

Ethan Horwell

Ethan welcomes you to safe space to have a conversation, something we may be lacking. Ethan will take a trip down memory lane of a loved one and welcomes you on this journey of remembering a life and creating a new life.

Content advisory: Speaking about the loss of a loved one. You are invited to talk about any loved ones that have passed, this could be human or animals.

Showing: 10am / 10.20am / 10.40am / 11.40am / 12pm / 12.20pm / 2pm / 2.20pm / 2.40pm / 3.40pm / 4pm / 4.20pm

Please book on doodle.com

A tea with Nanny

Kayleigh Giles

We all have lives. We all have stories. We all have bodies. Stories of our lives are told through our bodies. But how do we decide which stories to tell? Sit around the table at Nanny’s with a cuppa and let chance do its work. Milk and sugar?

In order to participate in this performance, please can you be seated at a table with a hot beverage of your choice.

Showing: 10am / 10.20am / 10.40am / 11.40am / 12pm / 12.20pm / 2pm / 2.20pm / 2.40pm / 3.40pm / 4pm / 4.20pm

Please book on doodle.com

Madame Maladié is here to cure you!

Lauren Leppard

This one-to-one performance offers the participant the opportunity to personalise their experience, while exploring ideas of transaction, power and appropriation. A parodic interpretation of faith-healing and occult practices, featuring co-opted rituals from several cultures.

You are invited to select a service to be received from Madame Maladié, from a menu that will be provided prior to the experience.

Showing: 10am / 10.20am / 10.40am / 11.40am / 12pm / 12.20pm / 2pm / 2.20pm / 2.40pm / 3.40pm / 4pm / 4.20pm

Please book on doodle.com

Smile

Mark Powell

In a world shadowed by mystery and uncertainty, ‘SMILE’ is designed to spread some happiness back into a time that can feel so bleak. In a celebration of expression, getting by with a little help from his friends, sit back, sing along, and together share the greatest gift in the world. A Smile.

Showing: 10.20am / 10.40am / 11am / 12pm / 12.20pm / 12.40pm / 2.20pm / 2.40pm / 3pm / 4pm / 4.20pm / 4.40pm

Please book on doodle.com

No Use Crying Over Spilt Tea

Nathan Forbes

Hiya babes, hope you’re doing alright. I just wanted to see if you fancied having a brew and a catch up? I have so much to tell you so pop the kettle on, grab a mug and get ready to spill the tea!!

Showing: 10.20am / 10.40am / 11am / 12pm / 12.20pm / 12.40pm / 2.20pm / 2.40pm / 3pm / 4pm / 4.20pm / 4.40pm

Please book on doodle.com

Play Date

Sam Beagley

The chance to visit your inner child and play with the toybox on a date in history which can be chosen by you from a variety of options. Has this chosen day had an impact upon our lives? And should we let history repeat itself or change the rules of the game?

Content advisory: Covering real historical events some of which involve death.

Showing: 10.20am / 10.40am / 11am / 12pm / 12.20pm / 12.40pm / 2.20pm / 2.40pm / 3pm / 4pm / 4.20pm / 4.40pm

Please book on doodle.com

Into the Blue

Seren Marimba Pyar Corrigan

Lady Blue is on a journey. The journey is difficult and she will need your help. Along the way she will reveal more of her story and if you believe she should carry on you must help her on her way.

Content advisory: This piece may brush on ideas that are morally challenging and could contain references to violence.

Showing: 10.20am / 10.40am / 11am / 12pm / 12.20pm / 12.40pm / 2.20pm / 2.40pm / 3pm / 4pm / 4.20pm / 4.40pm

Please book on doodle.com