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Welcome to LIMF 2013, eighteen days of wonderful art-circus, illusion, animatronics, extraordinary puppetry, dark clown theatre – and more.
Promoting innovative, visual theatre since 1977, London International Mime Festival starts each year with spectacular, intense and unusual performance, cutting edge and essentially wordless. The season is packed with UK premieres including new work by Les Ballets C de la B artists Romeu Runa and Miguel Moreira, Switzerland’s circus-theatre stars Zimmermann & de Perrot and Britain’s outstanding puppeteers, Blind Summit, plus a tenth anniversary revival of Aurélien Bory’s boundary-breaking production for his Compagnie 111, Plan B.
LIMF 2013 features fifteen productions from Australia, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Russia and Switzerland as well as work by some of Britain’s top visual theatre performers, plus workshops and after-show discussions.
We’re grateful to all our inspiring artists, to our venue colleagues, collaborators and supporters, and as a National Portfolio Organisation we are delighted to acknowledge the core support of Arts Council England.
Read on, book early, and welcome to the unexpected!
Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan, Festival Directors
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OCKHAM’S RAZOR (UK)
Not Until We Are Lost
Platform Theatre
Thu 10 > Sat 12 Jan Thu 8pm, Fri 6pm & 9pm, Sat 4pm & 8pm
£16 (£14 concs)
After-show discussion: Sat 12 Jan following the 4pm performance
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'There is something so unguarded and exhilarating about their joyous physical ease that you find yourself smiling broadly throughout. The whole show is a little miracle of co-operation'. The Guardian
'Surprising and quietly magical… this is special work '. The Times
LIMF13 opens at the beautiful new Platform Theatre in Kings Cross with the latest show from Britain’s most innovative aerial theatre group, Ockham’s Razor.
Following the success of The Mill (LIMF10), their eagerly awaited second full length piece creates atmospheric, exciting physical theatre in a series of short stories which explore what it is to be lost.
Not Until We Are Lost is an immersive promenade performance which brings the audience right into the heart of the action, while narrative and images unfold around them. With world class aerial work, and powerful acrobatics performed on specially designed structures, the new show creates an environment which is both physically and emotionally affecting. It questions how fixed is the world around us. Sometimes you need a shift in perspective to find your way. The specially commissioned score is by Graham Fitkin and features a live choir.
Performers: Alex Harvey, Tina Koch, Charlotte Mooney, Haike Irina Amelia Stollbrock , Luke Horley
Not Until We Are Lost is a promenade performance, but portable stools will be available.
Age guidance: Children under 5 will not be admitted
www.ockhamsrazor.co.uk
MY!LAIKA (France)
Popcorn Machine
Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room
Sat 12 > Tue 15 Jan Sat, Mon, Tue 7.45pm Sun 4pm
£16
0844 875 0073
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After-show discussion: Mon 14 Jan
'A Dadaist cabaret of meticulously orchestrated chaos. Loco, loco, loco!' El Pais
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My!Laika’s world is apocalyptic, an electric landscape where a surprising present coexists with an unknown past. There’s humour, bold acrobatics, a well-played Chopin waltz – even a popcorn volcano amongst other delights in this hour of surprising circus theatre, in which three charismatic women and one man live out a series of implausible scenes. Frank Zappa, Jacky Chan, Kurt Schwitters and The Ramones were inspirational in creating this fast-moving collage of bizarre and entertaining events which fuse circus discipline and rich imagination, a winner at the prestigious Jeunes Talents Cirque Awards in 2010.
Performers: Eva Ordoñez-Benedetto (Argentina), Philine Dahlmann (Germany), Elske van Gelder (Holland), Salvatore Frasca.
Age guidance: 7+
www.mylaika.com
STAN’S CAFE (UK)
The Cardinals
Roundhouse Studio
Mon 14 – Sat 19 January 8pm
£15 (£13 concs)
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0844 482 8008
After-show discussion: Tue 15 Jan
'A wonderfully thoughtful and intelligent piece, alive with colour and theatricality, childlike humour and troubled humanity' Exeunt Magazine
'Staged with offbeat humour, depth and great visual flair. An astounding and hilarious vision of the ecclesiastical world ' Gazette, Montpelier
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Three Cardinals in crimson robes are on a mission of redemption. Supervised by a young, female, muslim stage manager their evangelical puppet show races through key scenes from the Bible, famous incidents from the Crusades, and finally brings us to the contemporary Middle East. But their puppets have gone missing and the Cardinals must themselves act out the stories. The Cardinals ask us to show faith whilst theatre traditionally asks us to suspend our disbelief; a fascinating premise for a thought-provoking, witty and hugely entertaining show.
Founded in Birmingham in 1991, Stan’s Cafe is a group of long-term artistic collaborators drawn from many disciplines. This show was premiered at Domaine d’O in 2011 in Montpellier, where Stan’s Cafe are artistic associates.
Performers: Gerard Bell, Rochi Rampal, Graeme Rose, Craig Stephens
Director: James Yarker
Age guidance: 7+
www.stanscafe.co.uk
YEUNG FAI (China)
Hand Stories
Barbican Pit
Tue 15 > Sat 19 Jan 7.45pm
£16 0844 848 5226
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After-show discussion: Thu 18 Jan
His puppets fight with sticks, seduce each other all with such grace and precision that they appear to be dancing in the hands of their master' Le Temps
'A wonderful spectacle that delights and fascinates…delicate, serious, spellbinding' Le Figaro
'Fascinating to watch' New York Times
'You can’t take your eyes off them – those hands in which are held an entire life' Le Monde
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It starts with hands: his father’s hands, his brothers’, his countrymen’s, and above all his own.
Youngest in a line of five generations of puppeteers, Yeung Fai’s family fell victim to Mao’s Tse Tung’s Cultural Revolution: its ancient craft deemed decadent, and banned. Set against the vast changes that swept China during the 20th century this poignant story of a boy’s journey to freedom in the West is Yeung Fai’s personal history.
Hand Stories brilliantly interweaves modern multimedia effects with traditional Chinese puppetry. Manipulating a panoply of classic, Beijing Opera figures with great virtuosity - tigers, dragons, concubines, clashing warriors - and a rock'n'roll guardian angel, Yeung Fai and French puppeteer Yoann Pencolé reveal secrets of an age-old artform. Taiwanese visual artist Yllan Yeh’s stunning images and Australian composer Colin Offord’s original score add to the magic.
Commissioned and produced by Switzerland’s celebrated Théâtre Vidy, Lausanne, Hand Stories was a hit at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival in 2012.
Presented in association with The Barbican
Age guidance: 11+
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CIRCLE OF ELEVEN (Germany)
Leo
Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room
Wed 16/Thu 17/Fri 18/Mon 21/Tue 22 Jan (not Sun 20) 7.45pm
Sat 19 Jan 6pm (no perf Sun 20)
£16
0844 875 0073
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After-show discussion: Sat 19 Jan
'Majestic, simple and sophisticated, ingenious and elegant.' Total Theatre
'Leo Soars!' New York Post
'Unmissable' The List
'An eye-teasing, deeply impressive work of sustained absurdist magic' Time Out, New York
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Leo throws you upside down, tilts you sideways and messes with your head in the most glorious, brain-tickling way. Reminiscent of a wordless, Samel Beckett scenario in which a man seeks meaning in his isolation, inventing games to while away the time, Leo combines world-class acrobatics, visual artistry and clever film manipulation in a journey of joyful discovery and invention. This is physical theatre taken to creative and imaginative heights. With gravity distorted you’ll be wondering which way is up and which way down in one man’s fantastical playground. Based on an original idea by German acrobat, Tobias Wegner, Leo has been a multi award-winner at the Edinburgh Fringe, an off-Broadway hit and is now touring the world. You will be astonished!
Performer: William Bonnet
Age guidance: 7+
www.circleofeleven.de
DEREVO (Russia)
Harlekin
Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House
Wed 16 > Sat 20 Jan
Wed/Thu/Fri 7.45pm, Sat 6pm
£7-£17 020 7304 4000
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After-show discussion: Wed 16 Jan
'…a show full of exquisite moments: Harlekin's floppy arms and legs contrasted with his wooden chest, a slapstick scene of ice-cream madness, a stained-glass window beautifully lit, a puppet being stitched together again to the strains of a Handel lament… this is a superior piece of work full of the waxing and waning of the moon, shadow-dancing, clowning, and the desperate knowledge that we are all fools in love' The Guardian
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If God and the Devil were playing chess, Harlekin would be the chessboard.
Sinister, beautiful and rich in extraordinary images, this stunning spectacle reveals the darker side of Columbine’s commedia dell’arte lover, Harlekin.
Regular visitors to the Mime Festival since 1998, frequent award-winners at Moscow’s prestigious Golden Mask Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe, Anton Adassinsky’s Derevo stands at the forefront of new Russian visual theatre. Its mashup dada-mime-butoh-clowning style is nothing less than explosive.
Age guidance: 12+
www.derevo.org
BLIND SUMMIT (UK) World premiere
The Heads
Soho Theatre
Thu 17 – Sat 26 Jan (Previews Wed 16 & Thu 17 matinee)
7.30pm, plus Thu & Sat 3pm mats
£10-£20
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020 7478 0100
After-show discussion: Mon 21 Jan
'Astonishingly accomplished' Daily Telegraph
(The Table)
'Blind Summit prove once again that when you’re working in miniature you don’t have to think small' The Guardian
(The Table)
The new show from the innovators who created memorable puppetry for Anthony Minghella’s Madam Butterfly, Simon McBurney’s A Dog’s Heart and The Master and Margarita, their own hit shows Low Life, 1984, and most recently, the Biblically epic tabletop drama, The Table.
In between vast-scale puppetry for the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony and a collaboration with David Pountney on a new production of The Magic Flute for the 2013 Bregenz Opera Festival, Blind Summit turn their attention back to the intimacy of theatre, natural home of the well-bred puppet.
The Heads promises a cascade of imagery inspired by Cubism, McCarthyism and Catholicism, with guest appearances by a puppet Madonna, a cardboard J. Edgar Hoover, some giant hands and much more.
Age guidance: 12+
www.blindsummit.com
INVISIBLE THREAD (UK)
Les Hommes Vides
Soho Theatre
Thu 17 – Sat 26 Jan (Previews Wed 16 Jan)
Tue-Sat 6.30pm & 9pm, Sat mats 4.30pm & 5.30pm
£8 (£7 concs)
020 7478 0100
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After-show discussion: Mon 21 Jan
'For 20 years she (Liz Walker) has explored the art form’s nightmare limits, with surreal dramas about puppets in crisis that have been likened to the works of David Lynch and Samuel Becket ' Independent in Sunday
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Les Hommes Vides is a twenty minute low-tech, charming, eerie and comic performance of slapstick and surreal table-top puppetry and object theatre. It contains scenes of plank action, eyeless shopping, bouncing puppets, poetry and prizes.Invisible Thread was formed in 2011, one of two companies created from the split of internationally renowned puppet and visual theatre group, Faulty Optic.
Following the company’s highly successful debut production, Plucked, at LIMF12, Liz Walker’s latest show promises further adventures in the bizarre world of adult puppetry. Escape normality and suspend disbelief!
Age guidance: 12+
www.invisiblethread.co.uk
COMPAGNIE 111/AURELIEN BORY (France)
Plan B
Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall
Fri 18 & Sat 19 Jan at 7.30pm
Sun 20 Jan at 4pm
£15.00/£18.50/£22.00
0844 875 0073
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After-show discussion: Fri 18 Jan
'Sensational! With its magical inventiveness, its technical perfection, its humour and poetry, Plan B makes the dream of Icarus come true'
La Dépêche du Midi
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Performed on a cunning, tilting set, a source of tricks and transformations, this astonishing spectacle unfolds like a dream. A thrilling mix of circus, dance, video, 'sonic' object manipulation and optical illusion, Plan B juggles with gravity and perspective.
Ten years since its creation, Aurélien Bory and Phil Soltanoff have remounted their visual theatre classic which comes to the Southbank Centre direct from a month-long season in Paris. Aurélien's work has been a regular highlight of the Mime Festival since its first appearance in 2002 with IJK ('Think of it as Stomp with balls or Mondrian on acid' Sunday Times) and most recently in 2011 with Sans Objet, his acclaimed piece for two juggler/acrobats and industrial robot.
Seeing is believing, or more likely not!
Performers: Mathieu Bleton, Itamar Glucksmann, Jonathan Guichard, Nicolas Lourdelle
Three performances only.
Early booking recommended.
Age guidance: 7+
www.cie111.com
SIMONE RICCIO (Italy)
Nothing Moves If I Don’t Push It
Jacksons Lane
Fri 18 > Sun 20 January
Fri & Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm
£15
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020 8341 4421
After-show discussion: Sun 20 Jan
'A charming talent - bold fresh and funny'
La Comarca
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Meet Guiseppe Tato – a man with memories, fantasies and ghosts… and a few things he thinks he needs to prove. The world seems so beautiful and he loves his life so much, but he just can't help messing it up. He loves women, but always the ones who don’t love him. He tries to be tough but it’s not his style. He thinks he doesn’t need anyone, but his mother is always there. And he thinks of himself as rather cool…
London-based Italian circus-theatre artist Simone Riccio tells Guiseppe’s endearing story through a mix of high octane acrobatics using German wheel and Chinese pole amongst other circus skills. Developed in collaboration with Spymonkey’s Aitor Basauri, composer/musician Gareth Jones, video artist Martin Devrient, and, from the world of circus, Rob Tannion, Lina Johansson and Sara Martinez Viejo, an early, short version of Nothing Moves If I Don’t Push It was shown at Jacksons Lane in 2012. LIMF13 is delighted to present the premiere performances of this new, full-length version.
Age guidance: 7+
www.simonericcio.com
LES BALLETS C DE LA B (Belgium / Portugal)
The Old King
Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House
Mon 21 > Wed 23 Jan, 7.45pm
£7-£17 020 7304 4000
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After-show discussion: Tue 22 Jan
'Transcendent…a star dancer' Liberation (Avignon Festival)
'Runa is electric, magnetic. The force of the images gives a dimension of Shakespearian tragedy. Simply magnificent' Inferno (Avignon Festival)
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In a bleak setting that evokes the first, or perhaps the last days of the world, a man slowly stands up in the face of seemingly terrible adversity and tries to construct a thought, a speech that might explain. Implacable, ferocious and tragic, The Old King explores what happens when things collapse, when language fails. Produced under the guidance of Les Ballets C de la B founder and artistic director, Alain Plâtel, this epic new movement-theatre work was a hit at the 2012 Festival d’Avignon.
Performer: Romeu Runa
Age guidance: 14+ Contains some disturbing images. Unsuitable for children
www.lesballetscdela.be
AMIT DRORI (Israel)
Savanna: A possible landscape
Barbican Pit
Tue 22 > Sat 26 Jan 7.45pm
£16 0844 848 5226
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After-show discussion: Thu 24 Jan
'Ageless and enchanting' Badische Zeitung Switzerland
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Savanna is a journey through a fantastical landscape, an African garden of Eden inhabited by beautiful, automated animals: elephants, snakes, turtles, birds, snails, moths and caterpillars. Drori’s hand-crafted, mechanical bestiary seems to come straight from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci; it speaks to us from a lost paradise, a place of memories and beautiful sounds. Discreet and touching, Savanna’s two interrelated stories, exquisite robotic animals and moving sculptures, reflect human feelings and imagination. The landscape of Savanna is a metaphor for our emotions.
Amit Drori trained at the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem. Savanna is his company’s second show to be produced at Switzerland’s Théâtre Vidy, Lausanne.
Performers: Amit Drori, Laila Bettermann, Gai Sherf, Jérôme Vernez and Li Lorian.
Presented in association with the Barbican
Age guidance: 7+
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ZIMMERMANN & DE PERROT (Switzerland)
Hans Was Heiri
Barbican Theatre
Wed 23 > Sat 26 Jan 7.45pm
£16-£30 0844 848 5226
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After-show discussion: Fri 25 Jan
'Music, movement and visual magic contribute with Swiss watch precision, and there’s rich fantasy too... it’s funny, it’s poetic, it’s musical...' Le Monde
'They have a talent for revealing what is hidden, orchestrating joyful chaos' Le Figaro
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Following their success with Öper Öpis in 2010, Swiss choreographer Martin Zimmermann and composer/vinyl juggler Dimitri de Perrot return to the Barbican with a company of outstanding physical performers, and their latest production fusing circus, theatre, music and visual arts.
Catch your breath as seven performers tumble through an astonishing spinning house whose inhabitants miraculously live life through 360 degrees, jumping, climbing or dancing.
Mixing circus, theatre, music and dance, this funny, touching and almost physically-impossible performance will make you think about the cycle of life in an entirely new way.
Zimmermann & de Perrot have played in major theatres across the globe. Hans Was Heiri is their fourth production to feature at the Festival.
Presented in association with the Barbican
Age guidance: 10+
www.zimmermanndeperrot.com
GANDINI JUGGLING (UK)
Smashed
Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House
Thu 24 > Sat 26 Jan
Thu & Fri 7.45pm, Sat 6pm
£7-£17 020 7304 4000
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After-show discussion: Sat 26 Jan
'Juggling: not just artful but art' The Guardian
'With Smashed Gandini Juggling have concluded twenty years of experimentation with an increasingly nuanced and complex theatricality' Total Theatre
'Funny, beautiful, clever and affecting' London Dance
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Another chance to see the big hit of last year’s Festival. Smashed is a sensational mix of skill and theatricality inspired by the work of seminal German dance-theatre maker, Pina Bausch. Nine extraordinary performers, eighty apples and crockery galore combine in a series of nostalgic filmic scenes, hinting at conflict and tense relationships, lost love and the quaintness of afternoon tea.
Sold-out at LIMF 2012, Smashed returns after extensive international touring.
Three performances only
Age guidance: 7+
www.gandinijuggling.com
WOLFE BOWART (Australia)
Letter’s End
Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room
Thu 24 & Fri 25 Jan 7.45pm
Sat 26 & Sun 27 Jan 4pm
£16 www.southbankcentre.co.uk
0844 875 0073
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After-show discussion: Sat 26 Jan
'An enchantingly loony dreamscape ... Wolfe Bowart specializes in a magic realism that evokes a childlike wonder.' The Australian
'Many of the visual effects are in the French tradition of companies such as Philippe Genty... delightful' Adelaide Advertiser
'The sheer amount of invention is staggering. Bowart, like a one-man circus is unfailingly charming, clever and adroit' The Mercury
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Mops sneeze, storks swoop in bearing gifts, trees grow out of shoes and long-lost letters tell their stories. The magic starts when an old toy falls out of a torn parcel and one man’s life is changed forever.
Acclaimed theatre clown Wolfe Bowart, who made his UK debut at LIMF’07 with the enchanting LaLaLuna, returns with the Helpmann Award-nominated Letter’s End. Weaving together his signature mix of physical comedy, illusion, shadow puppetry and interactive film, Bowart leads audiences of all ages on a dream-like journey down a most magical memory lane.
Cut the string, tear open the brown paper, and enter the realm of the fantastic. The adventure begins here!
Age guidance: 7+
www.lettersend.com.au
Workshops
HOW TO BE A STUPID
Led by Angela de Castro
Mon 7 > Fri 18 Jan (not 12/13), 9am - 6pm
£597
Bookings: whynotinstitute@aol.com Renowned clown Angela de Castro returns to the Festival once again with her full-time, full-on 10 day workshop exploring clown and clown persona development. An intense, inspiring, challenging and transformatory journey with laughs and play along the way, this workshop is a rare opportunity to discover the secrets of the clown in a supportive environment.
For beginners and those who just want an experience of personal development, the course will be an enjoyable journey of discovery. For established performers the process will help you find truthfulness and depth in your clowning, encompassing the tragic as much as the comic.
Angela de Castro has been awarded fellowships with NESTA Dreamtime, the Arts Foundation Fellowship and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She is well known for creating the Green Clown in Slava’s Snowshow and for her contribution to research, teaching, performance and promotion of the art of clowning.
Come prepared for challenges and change.
www.thewhynotinstitute.com
LISPA: THE POETIC BODY
Led by Thomas Prattki, Founder and Director of LISPA, and other members of the LISPA team
Sat 19 > Sun 20 Jan 10am - 4pm
London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA),
Three Mill Lane, London, E3 3DU
£100 for the two days
Bookings: welcome@lispa.co.uk
Website: www.lispa.co.uk
This weekend workshop explores the idea of embodiment as a key element in the process of developing original art. Through use of the Neutral Mask, a cornerstone of LISPA’s teaching philosophy, participants are invited to make links between movement and emotion, life and art, the physical body and the poetic body. Additionally the work will serve to gain a deeper understanding of the essential dynamic forces within any art form, their vital function in the construction of artistic work, and how to apply them to dramatic creation. This workshop is designed for those practitioners interested in exploring physical theatre. It also serves as a preparation for the Devising Theatre and Performance workshop.
LISPA: DEVISING THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
Led by Thomas Prattki, Founder and Director of LISPA, and other members of the LISPA team
Sat 26 > Sun 27 Jan 10am - 4pm
London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA),
3 Mills Studios, Three Mill Lane, London, E3 3DU
£100 for the two days
Bookings: welcome@lispa.co.uk
Website: www.lispa.co.uk
The idea of the performer as a creator of her/his own work is no longer a fringe phenomenon, but reflects the broad desire of an entire generation of performers to develop their very own artistic voice and to take creative responsibility in shaping their vision of life. This two-day workshop offers an introduction to both collaborative and individually devised theatre and performance practice. It addresses all performers, dancers, actors, directors and teachers who have a specific interest in the idea of devising original work.
Special Offer: Do both LISPA workshops for £175
MAN, TECHNOLOGY, POETRY
A lecture / demonstration for puppeteers and visual theatre artists
Led by Amit Drori
Sat 26 Jan 10am > 3pm
Central School of Speech & Drama, Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY
£35
Bookings: workshops@mimelondon.com
There’s The Sultan’s Elephant, and then there’s Amit Drori’s elephant – among a host of his other, gorgeous inventions. Israeli artist Amit Drori is a theatre director, designer, and maker of beautiful, moving objects.
His stage work creates a theatrical universe based on the use of mechanical and robotic wood-crafted artifacts, live performers, video projections and open source technologies. His projects evolve through a long process in which theatrical imagery and human perception work together like a beautifully complex machine.
His lecture / demonstration will focus on aspects of the multidisciplinary process of creation, and the search for poetic expression in the delicate relationship between man and technology. It offers a chance for puppeteers, designers and visual theatre artists to look into an intimate world of personal creation.
Amit Dori and his company perform Savanna at the Barbican Pit Tue 22 – Sat 26 Jan.
THE PLEASURE OF JUGGLING
Led by Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala of Gandini Juggling
Sat 12 Jan 11am - 1pm
Central School of Speech & Drama, Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY
£25
Bookings: workshops@mimelondon.com
A workshop looking at different ways of throwing and catching 1 and 2 balls, culminating in learning 3 balls.
Aimed at people who have little or no juggling experience, the workshop will emphasise the pleasure of learning,
It will be influenced by the Gandini's interest in dance and musical composition, using structured systems to generate
simple sequences with one and two balls. It will also play with two person patterns known as social siteswaps.
Sean and Kati have taught juggling across the globe, in all kinds of environments, from schools to prisons.
Gandini Juggling's Smashed performs at the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House, Thu 24 - Sat 26 Jan.
MAKING THEATRE WITHOUT WORDS: When actions speak louder
Led by George Mann and Nir Paldi of Theatre Ad Infinitum
Mon 7 - Fri 11 Jan 10am - 6pm
Central School of Speech & Drama, Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY
£250
Bookings: workshops@mimelondon.com
A unique opportunity to dive headfirst into a productive environment exploring a visual and non-text based theatre practice via a Lecoq-style method that will push the physical limits of the performer as a creative theatre maker. The workshop will explore how the actor in an empty space can use the body to create characters, spaces, emotions, poetry, and atmospheres, and ultimately tell stories – without words. We will explore gestural languages, mime, comedy, tragedy, chorus work, poetics and much more, and with this foundation search for new possibilities of making visual and non-verbal theatre that excites and fires the imagination. The week will culminate in the creation of short devised performances that experiment with our newfound discoveries in a theatre without words.
The course is aimed at semi-professional and professional artists in all performance genres. It will be very physical with lots of running around, movement, sweating, fun, etc. We encourage all types of people to participate, but please be aware of the nature of the class and prepare to be pushed physically and creatively.
George Mann and Nir Paldi are directors of Theatre Ad Infinitum, a multi-award-winning international ensemble based in London and Toronto which develops new and original theatre for multi-cultural audiences. Their show, Translunar Paradise, was a sell-out hit at LIMF 2012.
MOVEMENT DIRECTION AND INTERPRETATION
Led by Toby Sedgwick
Sat 19 Jan 10am > 4pm
Central School of Speech & Drama, Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY
£50
Bookings: workshops@mimelondon.com
A chance to learn from one of today's most acclaimed movement directors. Toby Sedgwick trained with Jacques Lecoq, went on to co-found Moving Picture Mime Show which featured in many early editions of LIMF, was movement director for West End hit The 39 Steps and the National Theatre's global sensation War Horse, and for the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony. As an actor he regularly performs with Complicite, and features in its current production, The Master and Margarita, at the Barbican. Toby won the 'Best Choreographer' Olivier Award in 2008 for his work on War Horse. His workshop focuses on the art and craft of movement direction and is aimed at professional performers and directors.
2013 Venues
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BARBICAN
Amit Drori
Yeung Fai
Zimmermann & de Perrot
Barbican Theatre and Pit
Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
Tickets: 0845 121 6839
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(reduced booking fee)
Tube/train: Barbican, Moorgate
Access: Please contact Box Office 0845 121 6839 or email access@barbican.org.uk
Groups: Buy 10 or more tickets and save 20%. 020 7382 7211. Conditions apply.
Families: Up to three under 16s at half price with each full paying adult. Conditions apply.
FreeB: Free tickets for 16-25s barbican.org.uk/freeb
JACKSONS LANE
Simone Riccio
269a Archway Road, London N6 5AA
Tickets: 020 8341 4421
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Transaction fee: £1.95 by phone & online
Tube: Highgate .
Buses: 43, 134, 263, N20, N134 & N43
Access: see website for details
Concessions: Senior Citizens, students, under 16s and unwaged, with proof of status. Carers attend free of charge.
PLATFORM THEATRE
Ockham's Razor
Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design,
University of the Arts London
Handyside Street, King's Cross, London N1C 4AA
Online Booking Only: Opens 12 Nov
Platform Theatre website >
Door sales: Any unsold tickets will be available for sale on the door 1 hour before the performance
Tube/Train: King's Cross, St Pancras
Access: email direction@mimelondon.com
ROUNDHOUSE
Stan's Cafe
Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH
Tickets: 0844 482 8008
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Transaction fee: £1 per ticket online /
£2.50 per single ticket by phone /
No booking fee in person
Tube: Chalk Farm / Camden Town
Buses: to Camden 24, 27, 29, 31, 134, 135, 168, 214, 253, 274, C2
to Chalk Farm: 24, 27, 31, 46, 168, 393
Access: see website for details
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
Derevo
Gandini Juggling
Les Ballets C de la B
Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
Tickets: 020 7304 4000
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Tube: Covent Garden
Buses: 1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 26, 68, 76, 77a, 91, 168, 171, 176, 188, 501 (southbound only), 505, 521, X68, RV1
Access: see website for details
SOHO THEATRE
Bilnd Summit
Invisible Thread
21 Dean Street., London W1D 3NE
Tickets: 020 7478 0100
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All tickets to be collected from the Box Office, or £1 fee for postage
Concessions: People under 26, full-time students, senior citizens, people who have a registered disability, unwaged people, Westminster ResCard holders and groups of 10 or more.
Tube: Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Square, Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus
Buses: 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 38, 55, 73, 88, 94, 98, 139, 159, 176, 390, 453
Access: 020 7478 0100 or see website for details
SOUTHBANK CENTRE
Circle of Eleven
Compagnie 111 / Aurélien Bory
My!Laika
Wolfe Bowart
Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
Tickets: 0844 875 0073
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Tube: Charing Cross, Embankment, Waterloo
Train: Waterloo, Waterloo East & Charing Cross
Buses: stops on Waterloo Bridge, Stamford Street, Belvedere Road & York Road
Access: see website for details, phone 0844 875 0073 or email access@southbankcentre.co.uk
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