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End of Year Shows

Lift Off 2022: Tuesday 10 May

14.00 - 17.40
10 May 2022
Various

Join us at Lift Off 2022 to celebrate our Dance, Theatre and Performance, and Performing Arts students' work.

Can't make it in person? Livestream the event on YouTube.

Programme

A collection of work centred around death, nature, and the destruction of man.

Director / Writer / Performer: Kian Carey

Venue: Woodhouse Moor, Woodhouse Lane (A660) Meeting Point: Marsden’s Statue (W3W: vine.strong.wasp)

Time: 14:00-14:20

Music Credits: Paper Cut - Kian Carey, Water is Thicker than Blood - Kian Carey, Death -Kian Carey, Lament - Kian Carey.

No tickets required.

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: Lower Ground (main entrance floor)

Time: 15:00-15:20, 17:00-17:20

Music Credits: Motto.- Tiésto, Man! I feel like a woman-Shania Twain, I’m dat chick-Kelly Rowland

An untitled performance by Steph Mulhall.

Venue: LSA Theatre

Time: 15:30-15:50

Direct booking link

The performance we have created for the Lift Off festival 2022 is a sassy, exciting, high-energy performance that focuses on fashion as a main theme. The piece aims to encapsulate a feel good and light-hearted fashion inspired party with positive vibes and exploration of choreography associated with fashion shows, performed by two friends who will be supporting each other throughout.

Choreographer / Performers: Bella Reynolds & Ava Costa Do Amaral

Venue: Theatre

Time: 16:15-17:20

Music Credits: Donatella by Lady Gaga, Hrs & Hrs by Muni Long Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels by Todrick Hall, Woman by Doja Cat, I Chant, You Vogue by Leggoh, Freakum Dress by Beyonce.

Direct booking link

A simulated experience where reality does not exist. The world around us is a combination of binary codes forming of zeros and ones. We exist in a computer simulation where every choice we make has already been predetermined for us by a higher being. Can we, as humans, break through these codified walls?

Choreographer: Macy Lee

Performers: Macy Lee, Sarah Hadfield-Abosch, Laura Nuttall, Joshua Haigh

Venue: Theatre

Time: 16:15-17:20

Music Credits: Simulation Soundtrack -Epic Mountain Music, Ping Pong X Temperature X Tokyo Drift Remix -Kaurav Music, Simulation -Glass Petals, ATLAS -BICEP, Binary Code Interface Sound Effects -Sound Response, Argon -KMRU

The use of technology has created this virtual world, it has begun to separate us from reality. We see technology blinding us from the people around us, so turning off the lights helps us to connect back to reality.

Choreographer: Tyler Roberts

Performers:Ivy May Wappett, Daisy Grace Barber, Tyler Julie Roberts, Melody Mae Bell

Venue: Theatre

Time: 16:15-17:20

Music Credits:Technology is Reinventing Humanity, TEDx Talks. O Superman, Laurie Anderson. Celeste, Roger Eno and Brain Eno.