Lift Off 2022: Thursday 12 May

This work is inspired by powerful women and the female experience, both those throughout history and those we currently know. The work is a varied  collection of site-specific performances happening throughout the week that all form part of an overall performance piece. Pay attention. We are everywhere. 

Choreographer: Daisy Barber

Performers: Daisy Barber, Tyler Roberts, Melody Bell, Ivy Wappett

Venue: Basement 1 (12:30), Upper Ground (18:50)

Time: 12:30-12:50, 18:50-19:10

Music credits: Female-feat Kalie Shorr, Lacy Green, Lena Stone, Lacy Cavalier, Kim Paige,Tiera, Savannah Keys , Tjieri Bachman & the song suffragettes.

Lots of things are uncertain. What is certain is history repeating itself. Trigger Warning: Content around Black Trauma, flashing lights.

Writer / Director / Performers: James Dokubo & Lou Dixon

Venue: Theatre

Time: 13:00-14:20

Music credits: Nina Simone-Four Women, Billie Eilish and Khalid-Lovely (instrumental), Gil Scott Heron-The Revolution Will Not Be Televised(instrumental), Ms Lauryn Hill-Doo Wop(That Thing), Nines x Akala-I wonder

5 dancers, 5 relationships, 5 ways of working together or just ONE?  A dance performance dedicated to how dancers work individually and collectively. The triumphs and struggles that can form from choreographic invention. Sit back and observe how dancers embody movement articulation within themselves and each other. Watch US.

Choreographer: Laura Nuttall

Performers: Calvin McSherry, Laura Nuttall, Joshua Haigh, Siyu Lu, Eirini Papadopoulou

Venue: Theatre

Time: 13:00-14:20

Music Credits:‘Silk Sonic Intro’ Bruno Mars, ‘Epic Suspenseful Rise’ Alexander Henry Bernard, ‘Silk Sonic Intro’ -Bruno Mars (slowed/edited), ‘Tomb’Richard Schieber

Maybe a way to know a person is to listen to their mind and not the image they portray. Taste the tea and show me who you are.

Directors, Performers: Tina Yancheva & Angel Manaa

Venue: Black Box

Time: 14:40-15:30

Music  Credits: Samai Chat Araban (Maqam Chat Araban), ЧИЧОВОТО  ХОРО -NORTH  BULGARIA, ТРАКИЙСКА РЪЧЕНИЦА -SOUTH  BULGARIA,  Слави  и  Ку-Ку  Бенд -Йовано, Йованке, Cardi B -WAP feat. Megan Thee Stallion, Lana Lubany -THE SNAKE, far cry primal intro countdown (pre-release beta version), Tege Goal -Afroto

For this work  we have focused heavily on the black  female body and how it is perceived in different dance environments and contexts. Collectively we have incorporated contemporary dance and afro-fusion dance techniques. Throughout  the  making  process  we  have  considered  "The  gaze  of  the audience,  the  desire  and  pleasure  of  both  the  female  performer  and  the audience". (Adair1992).

Choreographer: Amber Miller

Performers: Olivia Buchanan, Cairo Buchanan

Venue: Theatre

Time: 15:50-16:30

Music  Credits:(YouTube)  Champagne  Poetry  (instrumental)  Burna  boy YE(remix Dj skurt 465), Burna boy ft .Murumba ( on the low), Steph London ft Liz banks ( DIP instrumental), Mix-I believe Yolanda Adam’s Gospele-closer, The sound of heels -black stilettos walking  

An exploration of femininity through movement. Investigating the concept of femininity and how that is reflected through each of the dancers' individual movement styles.

Choreographer: Sarah Hadfield-Abosch

Performers: Liv Richards, Meg Robson, Katy Whelan, Gracie Ashmore, Eirini Papadopoulou

Venue:Theatre

Time: 15:30-16:40

Music Credits: Tim Hecker: Up the Red Bull Creek, Boreal Kiss Pt.1, Bonobo:, Antenna, Migration Dr. Sound: Wind Rustling through the bamboo Brandon Caballero, Silvina Romero, Drumbeat: Fire Power -Silvina Romero Remix Rival Consoles: Dreamer’s Wake 

Love, The most amazing thing in the whole world, until it is gone. To be swept up in the world of being in love... In a bubble we feel will never burst... But then the feeling disappears...

How do we get over it? How do we move on? Come on a journey...

Writer / Director: Lucy Kinnerley

Performer: Abigail Oxley

Venue: Black Box

Time: 16:50-18:00

Music Credits: Vitamin String Quartet -Thank u, Next,Steve Horner -Sign of the Times, Kris Bowers –Material Girl, Duomo-Wildest Dreams 

What is it to be masculine? What is it to be identified as a strong male? Are we really as strong as we think? What inspires or drives us? What am I to you? What is behind my mask?

Director / Writer / Performer names:  Yvo Carr

Venue: Black Box

Time: 16:50-18:00

Music  credits: Johnny B Goode -Chuck Berry, The Bridge -Hans Zimmer, John Powel, Superman Returns -John Ottman, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly -Ennio Morricone, S.M.S. -Simon Steadman, Freedom -Pharrell Williams

An unnamed performance by Travis Wray. 

Venue: Performing Arts Studio 1

Time: 18:20-18:50

Detention. Eugh. AND it’s on a Saturday. The brief is simple: five students, five different personalities, two hours to make a show. Simple, surely?

Directors / Writers / Performers: Tom Cox, Molly Scholes, Demmie Morgan, Sophie Briddick & Frankie Yarker

Venue: Black Box

Time: 19:30-20:50

Music Credits: Christina Aguilera -Something’s Got a Hold On Me, Dirty Dancing -Time Of My Life, Grease -We Go Together, Greatest Showman (Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron) -The Other Side, Hairspray -You Can’t Stop The Beat, High School Musical (Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron)  -Just Wanna Be With You, Mamma Mia (Amanda Seyfried, Ashley Lilley, Rachel McDowall) -Honey Honey

‘The Confined Body’ is an exploration between bodies in space. The work encapsulates the struggle with confinement and restraint, and the journey the dancers take in order to adapt and overcome this restriction,  developing  different  relationships  between  space  and body, and body and body, to become one interchanging object. 

Choreographer: Mollie Freeborn

Performers: Mollie Freeborn, Gracie Ashmore

Venue: Black Box

Time: 19:30-20:50

Music  Credits: ‘Dart’  by  Jimbo  Jones,  ‘Joy  Squad’  by  Koreless, ‘Mercury  Rising’  Nowfeel,  ‘Sun  Glitches’  Dream  Lanterns,  ‘About Breathing’ Healion, Ex-Terrestrial, Priori.