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Artists Presenting Architects of Air Arte Latino Cultura Bicycle Ballet Bureau of Silly Ideas Cirq’ulation Locale Company Chameleon and Marc Brew DaDa –Disability and Deaf Arts Desperate Men East London Dance Emergency Exit Arts Epic Arts Faceless Company Fet a ma Fittings Multimedia Arts Fools Paradise Frolicked Gandini Juggling Graeae Theatre Company Iron Oxide ISAN Joanna Peacock Julie’s Bicycle Kinetica Bloco Lightening Ensemble London Culture Festival Los Kaos Mischief La Bas National Association of Street Artists Natural Theatre Company Neighbourhood Watch Stilts Nutkhut Quture Ragroof Theatre Remarkable Productions Sarah Sansom Scarabeus Simon McKeown
Small World Theatre Spike Theatre StopGAP Dance Company Strong Lady Productions Tangled Feet The World Famous Upswing Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre Walk the Plank Wired Aerial Theatre Without Walls XTRAX
Welcome to Greenwich Market Place, part of Greenwich Fair at GDIF We are pleased to present 52 companies at the Greenwich Market Place, whose work is representative of a variety of scales and styles and of the best possible breadth and diversity. The Market Place is a fantastic opportunity to tap into a range of companies working in street arts both across the UK and internationally. This booklet provides you with each artist’s/company’s details and contact information. We hope that this booklet will be a useful resource for you long after the Market Place. For those of you who are not aware how the Market Place format works, each artist has a stall and remains stationary whilst delegates move round the space visting different artists. The aim is for delegates to get right around the room and spend some time (around 5 minutes) with each artist. If you’ve developed some interesting ideas and discussions with artists and want to talk further please use the details in this booklet to arrange a meeting at a later point. That’s what the Market Place is all about, facilitating connections. We hope you enjoy this event, we look forward to hearing your feedback.
Architects of Air Mado Ehrenborg Managing director Oldknows Factory, Egerton Street Nottingham, NG3 4GQ E:mado@architects-‐of-‐air.com W:www.architects-‐of-‐air.com Architects of Air tour and build luminaria since 1992. A luminarium is a monumental architectural inflatable walk-‐in sculpture people enter to be moved to a sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour. The luminarium is a most verstaile form of art that appeals to all ages, to all publics and to all abilities, and therefore is a powerful magnet to a varied range of events. Architects of Air build a new luminarium every year and will have 5 luminaria on tour in 2011-‐ 2012. The latest lumianrium MIRACOCO is in the process of being built and will be ready to tour in June 2011.
Arte Latino Cultural Project Myriam Ojeda Pantino Artistic Director 45 Wheatland House, East Dulwich, London SE22 8DAG T:07854273506 E:[email protected] W:www.tiempodetango.com Established in 1994 by Artistic Director Myriam Ojeda-‐Patiño, artLAT is a London based organisation; developing a collective voice for creative Latin art in the UK and providing a culturally diverse platform for new work, international collaboration and audience development. Since its creation, artLAT has produced four large national tours, four international interdisciplinary projects and delivered over 200 performances and eight large interdisciplinary educative residencies across the UK. Superb reviews and wide spread support from venues and agencies up and down the country has helped artLAT to develop new audiences and lay the foundation for artLAT’s four UK Tours. Our next production for 2012 is AMAZONAS SPECTACULAR.
Bicycle Ballet Karen Poley Creative Producer 29 Springfield Rd Brighton, BN1 6DF T:07909 976910 E:[email protected] W:www.bicycleballet.co.uk Bicycle Ballet creates exhilarating, outdoor dance performances on bikes, exploring the joyful highs and gritty lows of cycling. The choreographies fuse dance, circus and physical theatre with visual spectacle, comedy and striking soundtracks. Current productions include: New for 2011. ‘Where are the girls when the boys are learning to bunny hop?’ (working title), a stunning dance, circus, duet. ‘The dance of cycling’ small-‐medium scale street show, with optional workshop, and, New for 2011, ‘After Dark’, a night version with lighting and pyrotechnics. Bicycle Ballet, is a mass participatory performance by up to 80 local dancers and cyclists Bui Bolg Lucy Medlycott Manager Bui Bolg, Whitemill Industrial Estate Wexford, Ireland T:00353 53 9123183 E:[email protected] W:www.buibolg.ie Bui Bolg was established in 1994 in Wexford town (the South East of Ireland) with the aim of bringing art out on to the streets and engaging with the wider public in a fun and humorous way. Our portfolio includes pageantry, parades, inflatables, installations, educational work, giant puppetry and animatronics. We have performed from Memphis to Mullingar and have even made it as far east as Singapore and Taiwan. Most recently we presented a performance as part of The National Lottery Skyfest, Ireland's largest fireworks display, with a piece called 'Fire on the Water' involving over 100 youth street performers.
Bureau Of Silly Ideas Laura Alos Project Manager Valentia Place T:07976906966 M:07970891335 E:[email protected] W:www.bosi.org.uk We create inspired madness and controlled chaos in the public realm. With a true belief in the power of silliness,we make engaging installations, superb shows and surprising interventions which bring magic to the mundane and encourage people to look at the everyday in new ways. Cirq'ulation Locale Hermen Six Tour Manager Beukenlaan 22, 8310 Brugge, Belgium T:+32 496 69 22 21 M:+32 473 96 53 98 E:[email protected] W:www.ciloc.com Cirq’ulation Locale present ‘crossover circus shows which tour all over Europe throughout the year. These shows provide a refreshing and energetic mix of juggling, acrobatics and dance, humour, and improvisation. The company was formed in 2002 and since then they have played over a hundred shows annually in fourteen different countries. These are ‘feel good shows’ which can be played at all sorts of venues and events before a varied audience of all ages
Company Chameleon and Marc Brew Joanne Peters Company Manager/producer Zion Arts Centre,Stretford Road Manchester, M15 5ZA T:07794 350 415 E:[email protected] W:www.companychameleon.com, www.marcbrew.com Company Chameleon brings histories, stories and archetypes to life with beauty, force and intensity. We believe in Dance Theatre as a vital method for social change. Our work tackles challenging issues in inventive ways. Marc Brew Company collaborates with a range of disabled and non-‐disabled artists to reveal the unusual and the inspiring in the everyday and mundane. Marc Brew’s choreography is renowned for its tender, precise material that exemplifies the beauty of moments shared between people and tells beautiful stories about being. DaDa - Disability and Deaf Arts Ruth Adams Marketing Officer The Bluecoat, Liverpool T:0151 707 1733 E:[email protected] W:www.dadahello.com DaDa, Disability and Deaf Arts is an innovative disability arts organisation based in Liverpool. It delivers DaDaFest and other arts events to promote high quality disability & deaf art from unique cultural perspectives. It also produces opportunities for disabled and deaf people to access the arts, including training and a young peoples programme.
Desperate Men Richard Headon Creative Producer The Epstein Building, Mivart Street Bristol BS5 6JL T:0117 9393902 M:07775911620 E:[email protected] W:www.desperatemen.com Desperate Men are one of the UK's premier outdoor arts companies with a reputation for high quality original work. As creative producers, directors and performers we create street animations, large-‐scale arts projects, bespoke performances and education projects.We recently celebrated our 30th birthday with a fabulous ‘Festival of Desperation’. Currently we are creating a hugely ambitious project for the London 2012 launch of the Olympic and Paralympic sailing and windsurfing events in Weymouth and Portland. Working with our core partner Cirque Bijou, Quest-‐ 'Battle for the Winds' is creating new and exciting collaborations across the SW region on unprecedented scale.
East London Dance Polly Risbridger Creative Producer Stratford Circus, Theatre Square London, E15 1BX T:020 8279 1050 M:07590 984694 E:[email protected] W:www.eastlondondance.org East London Dance works to develop a dynamic, diverse and inclusive dance culture for communities and artists across, and beyond, East London. We are the lead hub for Big Dance in East London, producing an eclectic mix of dance in unusual spaces as part of the largest biennial festival of dance in the UK. The next Big Dance will take place from 7-‐15 July 2012. We creatively produce and champion the work of a range of dance artists, companies and choreographers and support this work to be performed across the UK and beyond. Emergency Exit Arts Julia Tymukas Executive Director Rothbury Hall, Azof Street London SE10 0EF, T:020 8853 4809 E:[email protected] W:www.eea.org.uk Emergency Exit Arts creates unforgettable events and participatory experiences using performance, visual arts, mechanical puppetry, music and pyrotechnics. Since 1980 we have been touring work throughout the UK and Europe. We work with a large team of creative specialists, giving us the ability to deliver on every aspect of a project -‐ artistic, production, technical and participation. We can tailor a bespoke show to your specific requirements or we have a menagerie of gigantic mechanical creatures and costumed characters available as stand alone characters or as part of small and large scale outdoor spectacles with dramatic storylines and skilful choreography.
Epic Arts Hannah Stevens Managing Director (based in Cambodia) Epic Arts, Bradbury Studios 138 Kingsland Road London, T:+855 12 454 935 E:[email protected] W:www.epicarts.org.uk Epic Arts is a disability arts charity working in UK, Cambodia & China. Having developed professional inclusive performance work in Cambodia over the past 5 years, the team will this year commission a new choreography by StopGAP featuring artists from Cambodia & UK. Admission brings dancers from different worlds beginning in opposite directions, but practicing the act of admittance. Communication through movement overcomes language, cultural, intellectual, and physical barriers. As audiences witness how each dancer’s varied abilities add another dimension of passion and intrigue, we are challenged to re-‐vision how combining our differences creates something beautiful, holistic, and true. Faceless Company Bev Adams Artistic Director Unit E Fox Way, Trinity Business Park, Waldorf Way Wakefield, WF2 8EE T:01924335985 M:07770933484 E:[email protected] W:www.facelessco.com Faceless has been creating access to the arts through street performance, community arts and event management projects since 1990. Faceless' main street arts touring shows for 2011, include the Olympic themed street arts show Snailypics/Ready Steady Slow in which sporty snails try to break the world record for the 50m dash (present record 30 minutes 5 seconds) and Conference of the Birds, a professionally produced, community performed mid scale street show. In addition, Faceless is delivering a wide range of community arts projects and presently working on a major commission to animate a new open air shopping centre in Wakefield.
Fet a ma Pau Pieces a pied 9 rue jacques laffitte, 31000 toulouse, france T:+33 623 729 069 E:[email protected] Fittings Multimedia Arts Deborah Wintle Administrative Director The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX T:0151 708 8858 M:07745920108 E:[email protected] W:www.fittings.org.uk Fittings make new performance and theatre art works addressing serious issues in the language of variety theatre. We make our work with artists and performers from various backgrounds and life experiences. We make our work in a variety of settings, theatres, castles, tents and toilets, touring regionally, nationally and internationally to attract the widest possible audience. We make our work to entertain and to express what it is to be human. In Search of Master Juba‚ is a vibrant new street performance fusing the power of the drum, the rattle of the clog and and the urgency of street dance to recount the amazing tale of William Henry Lane, the Greatest Dancer Who ever Lived, the 8th Wonder of the World.
Fools Paradise Boudicca Lee Maloney sales and marketing Coordinator 18 Gandy Sreet Exeter, EX4 3SL T:01329 454 160 M:07913 945 393 E:[email protected] W:www.foolsparadise.co.uk Fools Paradise is the UK’s premier agency for street performance. We have over 20 years experience of working with the very best outdoor entertainers and are committed to promoting and supporting this art form. We have supplied acts to 42 different countries, working with festivals, party organisers, fetes, schools, town halls, charities, shopping centre managers, zoos, theme parks and many more besides. Each and every act has been seen by at least one of us before we agree to represent them, to ensure that our reputation for efficient provision of high-‐quality performance is maintained. Frolicked Beka Haigh Puppeteer / Director Unit D First Floor, Asquith Bottom Mill, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 3BS T:07947 578181 E:[email protected] W:www.frolicked.co.uk Frolicked is a puppet theatre company based in Yorkshire. We have performed walkabout and static puppet shows at festivals and events across the UK, and have created site specific experiences for selected venues including the Bronte Museum, The Royal Exchange Theatre, and last year were commissioned by Lakes Alive to present a darkly different ‚nature trail‚ in woodlands across Yorkshire and the Lakes. Frolicked create engaging shows with fantastic characters. We have a sense of humour and appeal to all ages. We never speak and use visual humour to communicate with our audience. Our shows are interactive and intimate experiences.
Gandini Juggling Aline Angeli Company Manager 14 DeHavilland studios, 20 Theydon Road, London E5 9NY T:02084424989 M:07949153864 E:[email protected] W:www.gandinijuggling.com Gandini Juggling has been set up 18 years ago by Kati Ylä-‐Hokkala and Sean Gandini to celebrate the art of juggling in all its facets, fuelled by the belief that juggling is an exciting living artform.The Gandinis have since performed over 4,000 shows in 40 different countries. Smashed is a theatre-‐dance-‐juggling piece for nine performers combining precise juggling with theatricality.Through Smashed, the artistic directors Kati Ylä-‐Hokkala and Sean Gandini present the world under an utterly subjective perspective, violently distorting reality to obtain an emotional effect and vividly transmitting their personal moods and ideas.Composed of tableaux vivants echoing world wars, tense relationships, lost love, innocence and the quaintness of afternoon tea, this Bauschian Tanzjonglage performance culminates with a cathartic smashing of apples and breaking of crockery. Graeae Theatre Company Daniel McGowan / Judith Kilvington Administrator / Executive Director Bradbury Studios, 138 Kingsland Road London E2 8DY T:020 7613 6900 E:[email protected] W:www.graeae.org Graeae is a disabled-‐led company which champions the inclusion of deaf and disabled people in the arts – as actors, directors, writers, designers, administrators, technicians, workshop leaders and participants, trainees and audience members. Graeae is the leading British company in its field, and is currently touring its new outdoor adaptation of Ted Hughes' ‘The Iron Man’, a classic modern fable that clanks, crunches & munches its way across the country with 10metre-‐tall metal puppets. The production follows 3 years of collaboration with GDIF on other highly successful outdoor shows such as 2010's magical and ground-‐breaking ‘The Garden’.
Iron Oxide Chloe Dear Creative Producer 25 Shaw's Street, Edinburgh EH7 4PH T:0797 438 8976 E:contact@iron-‐oxide.org W:www.iron-‐oxide.org Iron-‐Oxide creates and produces daring outdoor work that stretches the imagination of its creators and audiences. The company has a love of all things aerial, full-‐on physicality and playing with the elements. It specialises in unusual work in unusual places and has created work for beaches, hillsides, walls and the undersides of cranes. In 2010, Iron-‐Oxide created CARGO, a spectacular co-‐production with the Edinburgh Mela that is now being redeveloped for further touring: a risk-‐taking, water-‐soaked exploration of the universal need to migrate. Iron-‐Oxide is producing THE TIDE MACHINE for Oceanallover, a combination of a mechanical, tide-‐powered kinetic sculpture with exuberant and provocative theatre; a bold dramatization of intertidal life and the universal forces which dictate its pulse. ISAN Julian Rudd ? ISAN is an independent group of producers, presenters, promoters and artists working in outdoor arts from the UK and Ireland. We develop the outdoor arts sector through networking, lobbying, information-‐sharing, training, research, and advocacy support and advice for our members. We are committed to supporting outdoor arts in all its forms and advocating its benefits and practice.
Joanna Peacock Joanna Peacock Director/ Performer Watch House, Wakes Colne Colchester, Essex, CO6 2DS T:07946 758 687 E:[email protected] W:www.joannapeacock.com Joanna Peacock, is an artist of unique vision, she has been creating stunning shows since the late 80’s. She specializes in high quality visual spectaculars, combining stunning costumes with the inventive use of fire, water and lasers, this year sees Joanna collaborating with Dan Peppiatt of the Mechanical Menagerie company, Dan specializes in wondrous mechanical creatures, sculptures and site specific installations, combining fire, water and special effects. Together they produce an exciting mix of human performance with mechanical art. Julie's Bicycle Christina Tsiarta Research and Industry Green Manager 7 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd’s Bush London W12 8LJ T:020 7078 4885 M:075 401 577 97 E:[email protected] W:www.juliesbicycle.com Julie's Bicycle is a not-‐for-‐profit organisation working with the arts and creative industries to make environmental sustainability a core component of their business. We focus on practical solutions which balance artistic, financial and social considerations. Using our Industry Green (IG) certification alongside campaigns focused on the products and activities that make up the creative industries, programmes such as GreenMyBand and our dedicated theatre initiatives, our ambition is to make environmental sustainability an artistic, ethical and business priority.
Kinetica Bloco Tamzyn French The Brady Centre, 192-‐196 Hanbury Street London, E1 5HU T:07795142535 E:[email protected] W:www.kinetikabloco.co.uk The Kinetika Bloco’s young performers take you by storm with their unique new British Carnival sound, an exuberant mix of brass, percussion, dancers and costumes which combine in a roof-‐raising extravaganza with a decidedly London edge. Drawing it’s influences from the Caribbean, Brazil, Africa, New Orleans, Funk and Hip Hop, the Bloco has performed in Beijing in Olympic Cultural Festival, the London Jazz Festival, Thames Festival, and the Unveiling of the Nelson Mandela Statue at Parliament Square, where Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: “You were amazing–Nelson Mandela wishes me to pass onto you that he thought you were enchanting!” Lightening Ensemble Maire Mc Carthy/ Sarah Waetherall Artistic Directors 43a St Johns Road London, N15 6QJ T:020 8802 7651 M:07831 704 450 / 07970 626 636 E:[email protected] / [email protected] Inspired by British Pathe footage of the first London Games, The Olympic Fringe 1908 is an indoor/outdoor theatrical spectacular for people of all ages, a collaboration between contemporary circus artists and theatre performers. Extraordinary, dramatic and humorous stories of London’s first Olympians are recreated -‐ with aristocrats, bakers and policemen competing to achieve their personal best. Using aerial hoop, Chinese pole and acro-‐balance, circus artists and actors will reinterpret events such as the pole vault, ice skating, pommel and marathon. With the support of Jacksons Lane this production evokes a bygone sporting culture in sharp contrast to today’s athletes.
London Culture Festival Veronica Jones Festival Director Studio 101M, Mare Street Studios, 203 -‐ 213 Mare Street, London, E8 3QE T:07930 472 890 E:[email protected] W:www.londonculturefestival.org.uk The London Culture Festival is fantastic two week celebration of London’s diversity and breadth of culture. In its second year, the theme for 2011 is ‘The City Through My Eyes ‘, which aims to communicate life in the city from the perspective of Londoners irrespective of culture. This year’s festival will bring hundreds of Londoners together from all walks of life to celebrate the city we love. The festival runs from Monday 15th August – Sunday 28th August, and we're sure there’ll be something for everyone.
Los Kaos Neula Hilton Director Quay House, Quayside, Brockweir Gloucestershire NP16 7NQ T:01921 680074 M:07979 674317 E:[email protected] W:www.loskaos.co.uk Los Kaos use an innovative combination of puppetry and animatronics to create life-‐size and incredibly life-‐like creatures for unique and magical performances in public spaces. Our zoo currently includes Dinosaurs, polar bears and Mythical creatures. Our shows combine natural history, extreme puppetry and interaction to provide an unforgettable blend of street theatre, nature documentary and petting zoo.
Mischief La Bas Ian Smith Director The Briggait,141 Bridgegate Glasgow G1 5HZ T:0141 559 4920 M:07799854984 E:[email protected] W:www.mischieflabas.co.uk Mischief La-‐Bas are a Glasgow-‐based interactive theatre company specializing in irreverent and humorous walkabout ‘manifestations’ and larger scale international touring projects with collaborating artists. They are currently supported in their endeavours to ‘gently warp the underlay of the fabric of society’ by Creative Scotland, who are backing their plans to invade all the tiny villages of Scotland with ‘The Timid Vikings of Reknaestuff’ and the market towns with their ‘Festival of Fudge’. They are quite capable of travelling as far as Venezuela, and relish forays south of the border. National Association of Street Artists (NASA) Natasha Bolonkin Committee Member 58-‐60 Hampstaed Road London NW1 2PY T:07980397992 E:[email protected] W:www.nasauk.org NASA aims to support and develop the professional practice of UK based street artists by:
• Engaging in strategy and policy discussions • Advocating for the sector and networking with key organisations • Providing information sharing, discussion forums and peer support • Undertaking research and delivering developmental projects
Natural Theatre Company Helen Chamberlain General Manager Widcombe Institute, Widcombe Hill Bath BA1 6AA T:01225 469131 E:[email protected] W:www.naturaltheatre.co.uk Natural Theatre is the brand leader in comic walkabout street theatre. Their trade mark is immaculate and well observed characters placed in surreal situations. They are accessible, fun, interactive and highly photogenic. Their touring history is phenomenal: their Coneheads and Pink Suitcases have been seen in 80 countries but they also have a constantly updated repertoire of over 100 scenarios, from the bizarre Pigeon Poo People to the poetic High Street Bowling Club.The company is equally at home in busy streets, festivals, corporate events or at birthdays and weddings. Street theatre workshops can be combined within a performance programme.
Neighbourhood Watch stilts international Paul Miskin director partner 10 Ravensworth Terrace, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE46AU T:01912618997 M:07711656769 E:[email protected] W:http://www.nwsi.co.uk NWSI performs a magic street theatre of surprise and real astonishment, in which the proscenium arch is as high as the sky and everyone, is a performer. NWSI consists of around 50 artist trained in all kinds of stilts; prosthetics; mobile giant inflatable personages; pyrotechnics; fire drawing and sculpture; helium assisted aerial performance; sculptural ballet and live music. We have a repertoire of small middle and large scale shows which we have performed in over 40 countries world wide Our largest scale performances have been festival highlights in Singapore Poznan Rio Washington Tokyo Kortrijk, Taipei, Hong Kong and many other European and UK destinations. NWSI are just as happy performing a small show for a local gala. We start our new year in May 2011 with performances in South Korea.
Nutkhut Sophie Larsmon Producer Suite 27, Gunnery House 9-‐11 Gunnery Terrace Royal Arsenal, London SE18 6SW T:020 8301 8417 M:07810 167 694 E:[email protected] W:www.nutkhut.co.uk Nutkhut is an ideas-‐led performing arts company, producing high quality work primarily outdoors, moving indoors when our ideas take us there. Based in London, but with work that tours the UK and beyond, we mix performance, film, dance, music, installation and interactivity to produce witty and visually stunning work with popular appeal. Drawing inspiration from the backgrounds of the artistic directors -‐ Ajay Chhabra and Simmy Gupta -‐ and mixing in a very British sense of humour and mischief, the company is highly representative of modern Britain, creating work which could only have come from the here and now.
Quture Helen Davenport Artistic Director 2, The Grove, Easthill Road, Ryde Isle of Wight. PO33 1LS T:01983812578 M:07968485137 E:[email protected] W:www.helendavenport.com Quture is a company that delivers: Street performance, largescale backpack carnival costume & aerialists -‐ Corporate costumed hospitality / walkabouts. Quture Specializes in silk flags, pennants and banners, branding your event, largescale outdoor installations for festivals and celebratory events ; Avantgarde, fantasy, theatrical costume & headdresses for bespoke costume; VIP Themed events, props and site décor; Educational, skilled, artistic & creative community workshops with all ages and abilities.
Rachel Henson Ruth Dudman Producer The Basement, 24 Kensington ST Brighton BN1 4AJ T:07743 824 766 E:[email protected] E:[email protected] W:www.rachelhenson.com Flickers is an immersive, hands-‐on experience that heightens our perception of the immediate environment, placing us inside a story through which we are moving. You set off with an expedition kit, a series of flick books, which act as navigation tools to guide your way. Flicking the pages animates a photo sequence of the path ahead layered with a visual narrative that blurs the line between the real and the imagined landscape. Greenwich Fair Flickers is a riotous venture into the Greenwich Fair of 1836 with a band of chance-‐met frequenters; a journey though the Greenwich of now, inspired by Dickens' then. Ragroof Theatre Luan Blake Artistic Director The Basement, Argos Lofts, 24 Kensington Street Brighton, East Sussex T:01273 699733 M:07811933751 E:[email protected] W:www.ragrooftheatre.co.uk Ragroof create work for outdoor or unusual spaces, taking inspiration from the sites in which we perform. We bring our work to the heart of the community; high streets, social centres, boxing clubs, dance halls and schools. We are a collective of individual artists with a dazzling array of skills in dance, physical theatre, visual art, written word and curation. We tour all four corners of the UK as well as working internationally, travelling with our theatre, performance and happenings that celebrate, explore and create community. We have recently been commissioned by 'Meridians' to create a new piece in collaboration with French Theatre Company 'Vendeval
Remarkable Productions Ruby Baker Assistant Producer 54 Chalton Street, London NW1 1HS T:02073871203 M:07985160774 E:[email protected] W:www.remarkableproductions.org Remarkable Productions are producers of innovative, multi-‐disciplinary outdoor shows, events and festivals incorporating theatre, circus, dance and music. This year we are producing the Gi20 showcase in partnership with SIRF, a festival of small-‐medium scale, emerging outdoor arts. We are developing Taxi! by Avant Garde Dance into a touring piece of performance work and will also be producing the London Mela, Europe’s largest celebration of South Asian culture and communities, taking place in Gunnersbury Park. Sarah Sansom Time Won't Wait Artistic Director-‐Producer 10 Rosemary Street, London,N1 3DU T:07771 968 445 E:[email protected] W:www.timewontwait.com Red Herring aims to present theatre that is accessible and provocative, in a style and that involves direct and playful interaction with the public. That’s The Way To Do It is an inventive reinterpretation of Punch and Judy, where the characters are played by actors and a banning order on the show means that our renegade heroes take to the streets to muster support from the people. The project is a collaboration with producers Time Wont Wait, who specialise in participatory work. Together we are planning an exciting large-‐scale version of the show, with community involvement for 2012.
Scarabeus Clare Furey Manager The Studio, Hargrave Park Primary, 51 Bredgar Road, London N19 5BS T:020 7281 7493 M:07766533044 E:[email protected] W:www.scarabeus.co.uk Scarabeus makes exciting site-‐specific, multi-‐disciplinary aerial and visual theatre performances in unusual places (mainly outdoors) and provides innovative and excellent participatory opportunities (through performances, residencies and workshops). Our creative learning work focuses on disadvantaged members of the community, centering on children, young people and families. The company was set up over 23 years ago by Daniela Essart and Soren Nielsen. Simon McKeown Simon Mc keown Artist Bellwood Hs, Felixkirk, Thirsk, Y07 2DP T:07951 022 190 E:info@simon-‐mckeown.com W:www.simon-‐mckeown.com Simon Mckeown is a Fine Artist. His most recently exhibited work – Motion Disabled – has been shown internationally including the USA at the Smithsonian International Gallery. Simon’s work reflects his interest, knowledge and experience of disability and in particular our view of ‘normality’ and ‘difference’. He was recently named DaDaFest International Artist of Year 2010-‐2011.
Small World Theatre Ann Shrosbree Director Bath House Road, Cardigan Ceredigion, SA43 1JY T:01239 615 952 E:[email protected] W:www.smallworld.org.uk Small World Theatre (SWT) is an Arts and Culture for Development (ACD) organisation with over thirty years experience of producing performances, projects, facilitations, interpretations and teaching on environmental issues. Sophie Stuff Sophie Postlethwaite Perfromer/Director 9 Moor Row Ireleth, Askam-‐in-‐Furness Cumbria LA16 7EX T:07980660613 E:[email protected] W:www.sophiestuff.com Sophie is a performer, maker and stage manager. All her performance works have a cheeky and playful edge, with something of a living cartoon in the aesthetic. She is primarily touring animation/walkabout acts for outdoor arts events. No woman is and Island (a little lady sat upon on a tropical island playing her uke) was launched last year, already touring in both the UK and Australia to a sea of smiling faces. Petal (a giant singing sunflower with an attitude problem) is an exciting new addition, premiered in June 2011.
Spike Théâtre Adrian Turrell-Watts Administrative Director T:0151 709 855 M:07815 078 219 E: [email protected] W: www.spiketheatre.com Spike Theatre produces high quality, accessible, original theatre that appeals to and engages a variety of diverse audiences. The company has developed an original style of storytelling that draws upon a range of physical and visual theatre techniques to ensure innovation and inventiveness for audiences. Spike tours work for a variety of spaces including theatres, arts centres, parks and open spaces. Spike’s current work includes original touring theatre ‘The Games’ -‐ a comedy based on stories of the ancient Olympics – and ‘Top of the World’ – based on the successful Everest expedition in the 1950s. StopGap Dance Company Sho Shibata Projects Manager Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7QR T: 01252 745 443 M: 07729 978 278 E: [email protected] W: www.stopgap.uk.com StopGAP is a dance company consisting of disabled and non-‐disabled dancers. StopGAP uses disability and integration as powerful creative forces to make engaging work for new audiences. Our mission is to bring ‘integration’ to public spaces. ‘Tracking’ is an observation of our British eccentricity, sense of invention and support for the beloved under-‐dog. Commissioned by Without Walls and Shape Arts. ‘Spun Production’ is an outlandish merger of dance theatre and mockmentary, telling a story of the rise and fall of a wannabe. Commissioned by Accentuate, Woking Dance Festival and The Foyle Foundation, supported by Universal Music. Choreographer: Lucy Bennett
Strong Lady Productions Chermaine Childs Performer/Director 9 Moor Row Ireleth, Askam-‐in-‐Furness Cumbria LA16 7EX M:07512149452 E:[email protected] W:www.stronglady.com.au Strong Lady Productions is an Australian company, based in the UK, which has been touring outdoor arts events through Europe, Australasia & Canada since 2002. The primary touring work of the company since 2007 has been “Betty Brawn: Strong Lady”. This joyous solo street theatre piece, inspired by traditional circus strongman acts, features an array of feats of strength with a very feminine twist. Performed at events including ‘Watch this Space’ at the National Theatre (UK); ‘Klienes Fest’ in Hanover (D); and the ‘World Buskers Festival’ (NZ) this show has brought wonder and laughter to the streets and parks of the world. Tangled Feet Lucy Oliver-Harrison Producer Unit 201 Anlaby House, 37 Boundary Street, London, E2 7JQ M:07793557083 E:[email protected] W:www.tangledfeet.com Tangled Feet are an ensemble of theatre practitioners committed to making original work. Using physicality, image, music, text and atmosphere to create truly “live” theatre, tangled feet tries to capture the audience in a total experience. We aim to push the boundaries of what theatre can be, to make bold performances that inspire thought and question. We strive to make transformative theatre that is accessible to all, in public places, found spaces and theatre buildings. We have several projects in development or ready for touring; from a one on one show in a confession booth to a large-‐scale aerial project made for an audience of up to 1500.
The World Famous Emeline Fevotte Administration Boundary Farm, Maidstone Road, Hadlow, TN11 0JH T:01732 852002 E:[email protected] W:www.theworldfamous.co.uk The World Famous is a company of creative pyrotechnicians with a passion for playing with fire. We use fireworks, fire, flame and special effects to animate, amaze, celebrate and communicate. Our shows combine pyrotechnics with performance, music, lighting and projections.Our aim is to combine the intimate with the spectacular, form with content, fireworks with theatre. We work collaboratively, both within the company and with other artists. We initiate projects and respond to creative briefs. We work in this medium because it communicates directly to audiences – fire crosses language barriers and our work appeals to a wide-‐ranging audience. Upswing Ghislaine Granger Producing Manager unit 1, Energy Centre, Bowling Green Walk, London N1 6AL T:020 7613 4843 M:07773 641 005 E:[email protected] W:www.upswing.org.uk Since its foundation in 2004 by Vicki Amedume, Upswing has established itself at the forefront of aerial interdisciplinary circus in the UK. Upswing explores contemporary, challenging preconceptions of what circus can address and its relevance to modern culture. Upswing has performed at the National Theatre’s Watch this Space, The Liverpool Culture Company for European City of Culture, BBC London and the Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival in Melbourne, Everyone’s London on top of the Trafalgar Square’s Nelson column, and collaborated with the National Theatre of Scotland, the New Vic Theatre and the RSC.
Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre Jacek Ludwig Scarso Artistic Director The Vocal Motions Studio, 1 Venetia Road London N4 1EJ T:07967971864 E:[email protected] Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre was established in 2001 and has presented its critically acclaimed productions internationally ever since. Directed by Jacek Ludwig Scarso, the company has its base at London Metropolitan University, where it specialises in the fusion of original music, dance-‐theatre and contemporary opera. The company recently received an Arts Award from the Welcome Trust to develop its new work Baroque Box, and is delighted to premiere this as part of GDIF 2011. Ongoing international collaborations include Arts Arena in Paris, NOA Festival in Vilnius and the BAW/Living Theater in New York. Walk the Plank Christine Nip Production and Marketing Assistant 72 Broad Street, Salford, M6 5BZ T:01617368964 E:[email protected] W:www.walktheplank.co.uk Walk the Plank is a creative force of artists, pyrotechnicians and event engineers who weave together performance, visual images, fire, fireworks and music. The company works across a variety of scales, from international shows to village festivals, crafting remarkable moments that connect people with places, and celebrate special occasions.
Wired Aerial Theatre WOW Ayla Suveren Co-‐ordinator c/o Xtrax 51 Old Birley Street Manchester M15 5RF E:[email protected] Without Walls is a consortium of leading arts organisations and festivals dedicated to the development of the UK outdoor arts sector. We nurture talent and skills by producing new work through commissions and co-‐productions, and promoting work that supports the growth of the outdoor performance sector, on both the large and small scale. We are committed to improving the quality of the work and raising the profile of the UK outdoor arts sector on the international stage. Without Walls takes the interest of the outdoor arts sector as a whole and we network and partner with a range of other organisations and interests to achieve of our aims. The eight member festivals are: Lakes Alive -‐ lakesalive.org Norfolk and Norwich Festival -‐ nnfestival.org.uk Brighton Festival -‐ brightonfestival.org XTRAX Manchester ‚ www.xtrax.org.uk Greenwich + Docklands International Festival London -‐ festival.org Winchester Hat Fair -‐ hatfair.co.uk Stockton International Riverside Festival -‐ sirf.co.uk The Bristol Do -‐ thebristoldo.com