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End of year shows

Lift Off Festival 2024

12.30 - 19.00
14 May 2024 - 17 May 2024
Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University Portland Way, Leeds, LS1 3PB

LSAEvents@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Uncompromising. Experimental. Provocative. Leeds School of Arts is a place for individuals who are passionate about creativity.

Lift Off Festival 2024 is Leeds School of Arts’ annual festival of Performing Arts final performance work from BA Hons Dance, Theatre and Performance and Performing Arts students.

This year’s programme includes dance, choreography, drama, film and video, physical theatre, autobiography, spoken word comedy and immersive rave dancing.

Lift Off 2024 performances take place between Tuesday 14 May to Friday 17 May within our state of the art Leeds School of Arts building.

To register your interest / enquire about attending Lift Off Festival 2024 performances please contact LSAEvents@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.

Schedule

Time	Performance	Artist(s)	Location
12:30	Opening Reception		Theatre
13:30	Her Little Self	Heidi Clark Gallagher	Black Box
14:30		Ryan Green	PAS1
15:30	Untold	Lewis Jones	Black Box
16:30	Fly (Restaged)	Caitlyn Lawson	PAS1
17:45	Love and Money By Dennis Kelley	Zorawar Flora and Emily Hayward Guest performance	PAS1

Tuesday: Full Programme

Time	Performance	Artist(s)	Location
15:00 Triple bill	Mourir Mourir Mort	Claire Naylor	Theatre
	Zen	holLy MiSiUdA
	Monstrous	Ivy Wappett
17:30 Triple bill	When in Greece	Emily Winter	Theatre
	That's All Folks	Melody Bell
	Our Glass	Aeryn Waddington
20:00	Keep Dancing	Cameron Ruff	PAS3

Wednesday: Full Programme

Time	Performance	Artist(s)	Location
13:00	Reading Title	Liam Barnett	Black Box
14:00	Step Into The Valley	Emma Valerie Baker	Theatre
15:00	In Six Months' Time...	Amy-Leigh Travis Wilde	PAS1
16:00	The Waiting Room	Cerys Ashton	Theatre
17:00	A Private Show	Christos Padaris	Black Box
18:00	Burn & Turn	Bett on Black Productions	Black Box
19:45	C Cups and Saucers	Isabelle Imbornone, Matthew Nolan, Maya Elizabeth Watson	Black Box

Thursday: Full Programme

Time	Performance	Artist(s)	Location
11:30	Urban Soul	Phoenix Stanbury	Cinema
12:15	Dreamscape	Thomas Jacques-Smith and Jacob Squires	Black Box
13:15	Babble & Bitch	Lilly Miskin	PAS1
14:00	Don't Forget Me	Regan Askin	Black Box
15:00 Double bill	PitcicÓco	Eirini Papadopoulou	Theatre
15:00 Double bill	El Mar	Gracie Ashmore	Theatre
16:30		Kae-Lauren Whitter-Turley	Black Box
17:30	Time	Viktorija Gudijevaite	Theatre
18:10	Femirates	Femirates Airlines Crew: Ashley, Caitlin, Niamh, Molly and Poppy	Theatre

Friday: Full Programme

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Lift Off Festival 2024

Schedule

Opening Reception

Her Little Self

Heidi Clark Gallagher

Ryan Green

Untold

Lewis Jones

Fly (Restaged)

Caitlyn Lawson

Love and Money

Zorawar Flora and Emily Hayward

Mourir Mourir Mort

Claire Naylor

Zen

holLy MiSiUdA

Monstrous

Ivy Wappett

When in Greece

Emily Winter

That's All Folks

Melody Bell

Our Glass

Aeryn Waddington

Keep Dancing

Cameron Ruff

Reading Title

Liam Barnett

Step Into The Valley

Emma Valerie Baker

In Six Months' Time...

Amy-Leigh Travis Wilde

The Waiting Room

Cerys Ashton

A Private Show

Christos Padaris

Burn & Turn

Bett on Black Productions

C Cups and Saucers

Isabelle Imbornone, Matthew Nolan, Maya Elizabeth Watson

Urban Soul

Phoenix Stanbury

Dreamscape

Thomas Jacques-Smith and Jacob Squires

Babble & Bitch

Lilly Miskin

Don't Forget Me

Regan Askin

PitcicÓco

Eirini Papadopoulou

El Mar

Gracie Ashmore

Kae-Lauren Whitter-Turley

Time

Viktorija Gudijevaite

Femirates

Femirates Airlines Crew: Ashley, Caitlin, Niamh, Molly and Poppy

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