The office are currently recovering from a very busy weekend – presenting work in the performance space at the city’s new international art centre, Nottingham Contemporary. The mission: test the performance space.
We kicked the weekend off with Wendy Houston’s Keep Dancing. Where visions of Wendy thrashing around in a very sparkly dress in front of a mammoth projection of fascinatingly old archive footage, are still swimming in my head. The piece made for a very slick first ever live performance in the space.
Saturday saw Nottingham’s public thrilled by Nicola Conibere’s The Beckoning and the Escapades, a playful installation where the entry and exit of audience members to the space prompts the performers to introduce and remove an array of theatrical elements – from disco balls to sunglasses, electrical fans to stage lights.
Day three of the performances saw new ideas and experiments from three artists – New Art Club, Guy Dartnell and Gabriele Reuter. Audiences were taken into their working process through discussion, feedback and sneaky peaks at new work, in development.
In all, a very jam-packed, eclectic and electrifying weekend, which has left my mind reeling and fuelled my urge to both see and to orchestrate more live performance in the city….
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