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What's on - Friday, May 4, 2012
The Blue Elephant should be on every theatre goer's map
Wine Games: Music and Dance
What happens when certain laws are simulated and certain other laws are no longer simulated? For Wine Games: Music and Wine Games: Dance Joe Stevens has constructed sequences using a program that generates music and dance respectively as determined by the random arrangement of colours in packets of Wine Gums. Audience members are invited to interpret the sequences using the props available.
The practice of Joe Stevens concerns the language of new media. This could be described as being a new form of literacy encapsulating the areas of systems, play and design. A graduate of the Contemporary Arts BA course at Nottingham Trent University and the Interactive Media MA at Goldsmiths University of London, Stevens works in performance, sculpture and installation. Methods have been developed through several residencies, including a six-month stay at the National Art Studio in South Korea, in addition to group exhibitions and a solo show in 2010.
There will be a private view of this work on Friday 11th of May from 6 to 8pm.
ConcertTheatre - Sonata Movements
Exemplifying the possibilities of cross art form collaboration, ‘ConcertTheatre’ combines classical music and theatre to create a new performance experience for audiences with enhanced opportunities to make meaning from what’s onstage.
Sonata Movements pairs up four short pieces of theatre with four pieces of classical music structured in the form of a sonata. The four plays are linked by a common character of alienated relationships between people. A coherent performance will be created through characters, music, costumes and the performance space and it tells the journey of a musical sonata.
Reviews
Review in London Festival Fringe
Programme
| Abortive | Caryl Churchill (1938-) | Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) | Sonata D. 960 Mv. I (with adapted development) |
| Other People's Gardens | Kenneth Emson (1983-) | Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) | Nocturne Op.9 Nr.2 Ballade Op.38 Concerto Op.22, Mv.III |
| Portrait of a Lady | T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) | Sergei Prokofief (1891 - 1953) Frederic Chopin |
Sonata Op.28 Prelude in E Minor |
| Swan Song | Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904) | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) | Sonatas (Last Movements) Op.81a Op.53, Op.57 Op.31 Nr.3 |
Recordings
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- Feature on BBC Radio 3 'In Tune'