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WORLD-CLASS CONTEMPORARY ARTS FOR THE CAMPUS, THE CITY AND THE REGION
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WELCOME Welcome to our Spring 2012 programme of professional theatre, dance, music and art. We are excited to present so much new work of outstanding quality that traverses artform boundaries. Our programme strands are now crossing over and enriching each other in ways we could only imagine a few years ago. The result is a season of wonderful sights and sounds from some world-class artists.
Meanwhile the extraordinary guitarist Xuefei Yang performs alongside the Lancashire Sinfonietta as part of our relationship with the region’s orchestra, now our orchestra in residence.
In the gallery, visual artist Mel Brimfield has created new work and films as part of her ongoing fictional exploration of art history, This Is Performance Art. We asked Mel to propose a theatrical event to open her exhibition, and she has invited New Art Club to present their latest show in the Nuffield Theatre.
Finally, in a nod to the Olympic year, in January we launch An Exquisite Corpse for 2012 that will see artists create new works in response to a previous artwork, before handing on to someone else. Starting with the fantastic Lancaster-based director and theatremaker Andy Smith (a smith), we have no idea where we will end up, but we’re very excited to find out.
In our music programme, the percussionists of Sound Affairs deliver their live score to the 1923 silent film Salomé, and the Brodsky Quartet play a musical Russian roulette.
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Theatre and dance highlights include The Forest, Fevered Sleep’s stunning production for young people aged 5 and up, hot from a sell-out run at Sydney Opera House, and co-presented with The Dukes.
We hope you find something to entice or intrigue you this Spring.
Live at LICA Programming Team L to R: Fiona Sinclair (Associate Director), Alice Booth (Creative Producer), Richard Smith (Exhibitions and Events Officer), Matt Fenton (Director)
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COMING SOON:CURATETHE CAMPUS
LIVE AT LICA SYMPOSIUM
1-12 MAY 2012
GETTING IT OUTTHERE: THE FUTURE OFTOURING FOR CONTEMPORARYTHEATRE AND LIVE ART
Curate the campus is a fortnight-long experiment each May that sees Live at LICA locate outdoor and site-specific art projects across the Lancaster University campus and beyond. The project also hosts a series of artist’s residencies that enable the research and development of new public realm art projects.
LIVE AT LICA, LANCASTER, 10AM-5.30PM, MAY 12TH, 2012
Getting It Out There is a one-day symposium for those making, presenting and supporting performance, contemporary theatre and live art in England. It is about the future of these artforms and how they are presented, and the changing face of national touring.
Last year saw over 1000 people participate in events, and several previous Curate the Campus development projects have gone on to tour nationally. A full programme will be announced in March 2012 See www.liveatlica.org/curatethecampus or search #curatethecampus for more details.
Getting It Out There brings together panels of artform specialists to ask overdue questions about the role of curators, programmers, producers and venues. It considers the wider implications of the structures used to fund, develop and present new work, and emerging models for touring countrywide. It explores the dissemination of practice in the light of hybrid forms, digital realities and networks, while keeping a clear eye on the unique role of the live encounter as the lifeblood of the sector.
The event includes creative responses from artists sustaining a practice across contexts and regions, and explores international perspectives on the issues raised. The event will be of interest to artists, producers, programmers, curators, arts funders and those invested in the future of contemporary performance. Getting it Out There is a LANWest project, co-produced by hÅb and Live at LICA, funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Presented in Association with Live Art UK. Tickets: £20 / £15 concessions, freelance, artists (includes lunch and refreshments)
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Production still from He Hit Me...And It Felt Like A Kiss (Singing Sculpture), 2011 Produced in collaboration with Gwyneth Herbert and Paul Higgs, courtesy of the artist and Ceri Hand Gallery
EXHIBITIONS The blurring of fact and fabrication witnessed in our Autumn exhibitions continues this Spring when we open with Mel Brimfield’s This Is Performance Art. Based around the second episode of Brimfield’s fictional TV series of the same name, and featuring newly commissioned work, the show includes the musings of Barbara Hepworth and Lee Krasner in a tangled web of apparent documentation. The opening event is followed by the latest work by performance company New Art Club, one of Brimfield’s many collaborators (see page 22 for details). This is followed by the nationally touring Reflections on the Self: Five African Women Photographers, an exhibition curated by Christine Eyene featuring artists who use portraiture as a way to engage with a range of contemporary issues.
Sitting alongside both of the Spring exhibitions is the second of our New to the Collection displays showcasing the gallery’s recently acquired Wall Plate series by renowned British artist Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005). May 2012 sees the third installment of our curatorial project Conversations with the Collection. An intricate set of year-long relationships between local schools, Lancaster University students, a lead artist and LUSU Involve will generate a unique collections-based exhibition. To find out more about the show, keep an eye on our website in the coming months.
Richard Smith Exhibitions and Events Officer richard@liveatlica.org
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EXHIBITIONS
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NEW ART CLUB
COMPANY CHAMELEON
QUIET ACT OF DESTRUCTION
GAMESHOW 22 February see page 26
19 January see page 22
MEL BRIMFIELD
THIS IS PERFORMANCE ART - PARTTWO: EXPERIMENTALTHEATRE AND CABARET 20 JANUARY – 18 FEBRUARY PETER SCOTT GALLERY Public Opening, 6.30pm 19 January
Mel Brimfield’s complex practice takes a skewed and tangled romp through the development of performance art, simultaneously revealing and inventing a rich history of collaboration between visual artists, dancers, theatre makers, political activists and comedians. It sees the debut of the second episode of This Is Performance Art, Brimfield’s ongoing fictional TV series investigating “what is omitted, forgotten, lost and fictionalised by the faulty mechanics of museological, curatorial and archival approaches to assimilating performance art history.” The show premieres new film and photographic work commissioned and supported by Live at LICA and Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool. Brimfield’s work is also made with support from Performance Matters, a collaboration between Goldsmiths, University of London, Roehampton Institute and the Live Art Development Agency, financially assisted by the AHRC. The exhibition is accompanied by a stunning new publication – This Is Performance Art – published by Back Dog Press, featuring a foreword by Live at LICA Director Matt Fenton. Mel Brimfield, Production still from Barbara Hepworth > Henry Moore, 2011 Courtesy the artist, Joanna Neary and Ceri Hand Gallery
PATRICK CAULFIELD
FIVE AFRICAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
NEWTOTHE COLLECTION
REFLECTIONS ONTHE SELF
20 JANUARY – 17 MARCH PETER SCOTT GALLERY
23 FEBRUARY – 17 MARCH PETER SCOTT GALLERY
Public Opening, 6.30pm 19 January
Public Opening, 6.30pm 22 February
This display marks the acquisition of a series of prints by the internationally renowned British painter and printmaker Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005). The Wall Plate series consists of four prints that show Caulfield’s fascination with everyday objects and with light. Acquired with generous support from the Lancaster University Friends Programme and the Peter Scott Gallery Charitable Trust, the Wall Plates series will be accompanied by other Caulfield prints from the Peter Scott Gallery collection.
Curated by Christine Eyene, Reflections on the Self presents women’s visual narratives, as told through self-portraits or portraits of others. The work engages with issues such as identity, sexuality and displacement and is produced by African female photographers whose views of the world have been shaped by their own experiences in Africa and the diaspora. The photographers are Hélène Amouzou (Togo, Belgium); Majida Khattari (Morocco, France); Zanele Muholi (South Africa); Senayt Samuel (Eritrea, UK); Lolo Veleko (South Africa).
Wall Plate: Highlights, 1987, Patrick Caulfield Courtesy of Alan Cristea Gallery © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2011
A Hayward Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London
Nontsikelelo Veleko, Nonkulukelo, 2003, © Nontsikelelo Veleko 2010, Courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery
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Brodsky Quartet, 23rd February. Photo Credit: Benjamin Ealovega
CONCERTS The second half of our season enters into a world full of musical texture. We hope you’ll enjoy the classic parts of the programme as much as the innovative performances, such as the superb recreation of the silent film “Salomé”, complete with percussionists in towers. The world famous Brodskys celebrate their 40th anniversary with a Russian roulette of music and the Apollo Saxophone Quartet mark their 25th year with a selection of improvised and new music to their favourite film clips.
One of the UK’s best-loved brass bands and tango orchestra Silencio join us for the first time. We also feature concerts by the astonishing British artists, tenor Mark Padmore, violinist Jennifer Pike, pianist Kathryn Stott and the Doric Quartet. Virtuoso guitarist, Xuefei Yang, enraptured audiences last season. She concludes the season with our very own Orchestra in Residence, the Lancashire Sinfonietta. I warmly welcome you to enjoy these special concerts with us.
Fiona Sinclair Associate Director fiona@liveatlica.org
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24 HOURS IN A TOWER
CONCERTS
1 February see page 24
MANCHESTER CAMERATA ENSEMBLE
APOLLO SAXOPHONE QUARTET
FEATURING GIOVANNI GUZZO VIOLIN STRAUSS arr.HASENHORL Till Eulenspiegel (einmal anders!) BRAHIM KERKOUR Premiere FRANZ DANZI Quartet in B flat op. 40 no. 3 SCHUBERT Octet 26 JANUARY 7.30PM
GREAT HALL
WEB ADVANCE: £17.50 / £14.50 (£14.50 /£12.50 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £19 / £16 (£16, £14 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT
The excellence of Manchester’s finest chamber orchestra is distilled in its ensemble - directed by the dynamic Venezuelan violinist, Giovanni Guzzo, the group packs a powerful musical punch. Tonight eight of their musicians combine in different formations for a varied evening of music. The Danzi quartet offers a delightful showpiece for the bassoonist and the evening opens with a condensed version of the riotous, cheeky and characterful Strauss tone poem, Till Eulenspiegel (einmal anders in another way!). There’ll also be a surprise new work by Camerata’s talented composer-in-residence Brahim Kerkour. The ensemble concludes with the masterly Schubert Octet - as dramatic and heartfelt a piece of chamber music as you’ll ever hear. Pre-Concert Talk 6.45pm www.manchestercamerata.co.uk
2 FEBRUARY 7.30PM
GREAT HALL
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The Apollo Saxophone Quartet has been internationally acclaimed as one of the UK's most innovative and exciting contemporary ensembles for the last twenty-five years - this year they celebrate this significant anniversary. Established at the Royal Northern College of Music in 1985, the group set out to develop an original repertoire, drawing upon influences from a wide variety of cultures and disciplines, combining contemporary classical, jazz, folk and world music. They celebrate 25 years of being together by creating an evening of music, including a series of works inspired by their favourite film clips. www.apollosaxophonequartet.com Podium Lecture 1.00pm Preview Concert 6.45pm
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CONCERTS FODEN’S BRASS BAND 9 FEBRUARY 7.30PM
GREAT HALL
THE FOREST 29 Feb - 3 Mar see page 27
SALOME WITH SOUND AFFAIRS
WHEEL FOR TUNES
16 FEBRUARY 7.30PM
23 FEBRUARY 7.30PM
NUFFIELD THEATRE
BRODSKY QUARTET GREAT HALL
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WEB ADVANCE: £15.50 (£13 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £17 / (£14.50 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT
WEB ADVANCE*: £21.50 (£18.50 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD *: £23 (£20 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT
The origins of the Foden's band go back to 1900 when the village of Elworth near Sandbach formed its own band to feature in the relief of Mafeking in the Boer War.
Salomé is a visual feast. This controversial and influential arthouse classic is a rarely seen piece of film history. Adapted from the controversial Oscar Wilde play, this production brings together a screening of the silent film with a live performance of a new score by Charlie Barber. Inspired by the sounds of traditional Arabian ensembles, the music is performed by four percussionists, playing from towers on either side of the screen.
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Thirty seven times a prize winner at the National Championships of Great Britain, the Foden's have maintained their position as one of the worlds leading brass bands. As well as being extremely successful on the contest field, Foden's are in great demand for concerts in the UK and abroad due to their diversity and entertaining choice of programmes. Preview Concert 6.45pm
Made in 1923, Salomé loosely follows the biblical story of King Herod and his desire for his young stepdaughter. It is Salomé’s desire for Jokanaan (John the Baptist) that causes her to dance before Herod…
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www.soundaffairs.co.uk
Podium Lecture 1.00pm
The world famous Brodsky Quartet celebrates 40 years of music in a unique and entertaining concert. The Brodsky's very own ‘Wheel of Fortune’ includes 40 of their favourite quartets and short pieces - spin the wheel and the quartet will play the selected pieces. It’s like no other concert you’ve ever experienced! This informal evening presents a rare opportunity to get to know the musicians and their history. Seating for this event set ‘in the round’ Preview Concert 6.45pm
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CONCERTS SILENCIO TANGO ORCHESTRA
MARK PADMORE TENOR ANDREW WEST PIANO
1 MARCH 7.30PM
SCHUBERT Heine settings from Schwanengesang HENZE Songs of the Arabian SCHUMANN Dichterliebe, Op.48
GREAT HALL
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Silencio are the real deal. This collective of international musicians have created a tango orchestra inspired by the glorious epoch of tango from the 1950’s. They have developed their own style which retains the quality of the original “orquesta tipica”, its sound... and its power. The group is one of the most renowned tango-orchestras in Europe and promises to be a highlight of our season. www.silenciotango.com
8 MARCH 7.30PM
GREAT HALL
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Mark Padmore is a tenor who sings from both his heart and mind - this exceptional musician has earned his reputation as one of the UK’s very finest tenors. He is joined by the distinguished pianist (and former Lancaster pianist in residence) Andrew West. Dichterliebe “The Poet’s Love” and the selection from Schwanengesang “Swan Song” are both cycles of poems by Heinrich Heine. Having performed these works throughout his career, Padmore brings a unique intensity and depth of emotion to these great lyric works by Schumann and Schubert. He will also perform a selection of songs from Henze’s mythical Songs of the Arabian before he takes the complete cycle to the Vienna Festival. Pre-Concert Talk 6.45pm www.markpadmore.com
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CONCERTS JENNIFER PIKE VIOLIN
LANCASHIRE SINFONIETTA
KATHRYN STOTT PIANO DORIC STRING QUARTET
XUEFEIYANG GUITAR ANDREW WATKINSON DIRECTOR
CHAUSSON String Quartet in C minor Op.35 FAURE Nocturne No.4 RAVEL Jeux d’eau DEBUSSY L’isle Joyeuse CHAUSSON Concert for violin, piano and quartet
TOM COULT Young Composer in Residence Premiere J.S.BACH Concerto in E Major RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez MOZART Symphony No.40 in g minor K.550
15 MARCH 7.30PM
GREAT HALL
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A love of French music has brought this all-star cast together to perform this sumptuous programme. The Doric String Quartet return to Lancaster with this rarely heard string quartet by Chausson. The poor composer was nearly at the end of writing the work when he died after his bicycle crashed into a wall, and it was later completed by D’Indy. This is followed by a delicious selection of impressionistic piano music performed by Lancashire’s darling of the piano, Kathryn Stott. This concert ends with a heady rendition of Chausson’s epic Concert for violin, piano and string quartet. The composer exclaimed “Never have I had such a success! I can't get over it. Everyone seems to love the Concert.” This melodic blockbuster will feature the exceptional young violinist and former winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year, Jennifer Pike. www.jenniferpike.com www.kathrynstott.com www.doricstringquartet.com Pre-Concert Talk 6.45pm
22 MARCH 7.30PM
GREAT HALL
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The global guitar sensation, Xuefei Yang is back by huge demand to Lancaster University, following her stunning solo recital last season. She will release her new disc of Bach concerti with EMI in the spring and comes to perform her special arrangement of the E Major violin concerto alongside Rodrigo’s magical Concierto de Aranjuez. She performs with Lancaster’s new Orchestra in Residence - the county’s own star-studded chamber orchestra, directed by the leader of the Endellion Quartet, Andrew Watkinson. They end the season with one of Mozart’s final symphonies - the G minor - a piece which Wagner described as a work of “indestructible beauty”. www.lancs-sinf.com | www.xuefeiyang.com Podium Lecture 1.00pm Preview Concert 6.45pm
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Protein Dance, 31st January Photo Credit: Nuno Santos
THEATRE,DANCE & LIVE ART The highlight of our Spring theatre and dance programme is undoubtedly teaming up with The Dukes to present Fevered Sleep’s acclaimed show for young people aged five and up: The Forest. Following a recent run at Sydney Opera House, the show has received rave reviews for its combination of dance, light and music, all experienced amongst a magical forest of real trees.
relationships, LOL (Lots Of Love); Nuffield regulars New Art Club present their anarchic and very funny physical performance in new show Quiet Act of Destruction; and one of the most exciting young companies to emerge recently, Sleepwalk Collective, make their first visit to Lancaster. As ever, it’s the place to see exciting new work with an eye on quality and innovation.
We’re also really excited to present a rich mix of established companies, early career artists and new work that we have supported through providing time, space or commissioning. Protein Dance bring their exploration of online
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Matt Fenton Director, Live at LICA (Theatre/Dance programmer) matt@liveatlica.org
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THEATRE & DANCE NEW ART CLUB
MAELSTROM DANCE
PROTEIN DANCE
QUIETACTOFDESTRUCTION BALLAST
LOL (LOTS OF LOVE)
19 JANUARY 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE
26 JANUARY 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE
31 JANUARY 8PM
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Nuffield audience favourites New Art Club return to take you on an hilarious rampage through the placid Cambridgeshire village of Meldreth. Against an exhilarating soundtrack, chaos bubbles in the church tearooms and revolution leaks from under the post-office door…
Winner of the 2011 TURN Prize choreographic commission, Maelstrom Dance are fast making an impact on the North West dance scene.
Completely defying art-form boundaries, the award-winning New Art Club are recognised as one of the truly original forces in comedy. They recently collaborated with visual artist Mel Brimfield on This Is Performance Art, on display in the Peter Scott Gallery. This show follows the opening event of her exhibition (see page 8). ‘Intelligently idiotic and unwaveringly entertaining. HHHHH’ Big Issue
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Nominated for a Theatre Awards UK award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance. Known for creating witty and profound dance-theatre from everyday life, Luca Silvestrini’s award-winning Protein has struck dance gold with LOL (lots of love). In an age of electronic communication this timely, critically acclaimed production puts its six dancers on a quest for romance. Against a video wall of dozens of screen-gazing individuals, Protein’s cyber souls nail the language of life online. Talking and dancing at speed, they tackle the baffling etiquette of electronic discourse, make hilarious confessions, and dance the physical equivalent of poking and tweeting. These ingredients conjure up a razor-sharp commentary on our Facebook society.
Led by choreographer Lindsey Brocklebank, this all-female company creates dance with a dark edge that explores women’s lives distorted by absurdity and exhaustion. Photo Credit: Amy Brammall
Approx 60mins. 14yrs+ www.newartclub.org
Ballast follows two mythological Greek sisters, Hubris and Malva, demi-gods fallen from grace. The movement language draws on Muay Thai boxing, set against a hybrid of contemporary dance and distorted urban movement.
NUFFIELD THEATRE
“Savvy, highly entertaining dance theatre ... it has a potent, even poignant charm” HHHH The Times
The Turn Prize is a commission from Dance Initiative Greater Manchester, Live at LICA, hÅb and Contact. A greenroom legacy project.
“Luca Silvestrini is the sharpest of comic choreographers.” HHHH The Guardian Approx: 70mins. 12yrs + Lollotsoflove.net www.proteindance.co.uk
11yrs + Photo Credit: by Nuno Santos
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THEATRE & DANCE PETE MOSER
DONNA RUTHERFORD
SLEEPWALK COLLECTIVE (UK/SPAIN)
24 HOURS IN ATOWER
KIN
1 FEBRUARY 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE
4 FEBRUARY 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE
ASTHE FLAMES ROSE WE DANCED TOTHE SIRENS,THE SIRENS
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During Curate the Campus in May 2011, musician Peter Moser spent 24 hours isolated up Lancaster University’s Bowland Tower. Every hour he composed and performed a new song, and broadcast them online.
KIN explores the fear, sorrow, anger and guilt, but also the love and laughter to be found as middle-aged people negotiate their changing relationship with their parents. In moving close-ups, performers reveal concerns of their own ageing while dealing with their parents’ increasingly glacial pace of life.
Some songs were written for someone in a particular time-zone – Montreal, the Philippines, Vancouver – and so the songs travelled the globe. Others were written in response to emails, tweets or texts… Performed as a gig for the first time, this is 24 songs in two sets. Rants, love songs and comic calypsos in a room showing the 24-hour timelapsed view from a tower, for a live audience and online.
Performers Richard Gregory (Quarantine), Tim Ingram (Reckless Sleepers), Cathy Naden and Claire Marshall (Forced Entertainment) and actor Alison Peebles are linked during a live performance by Donna Rutherford. 14yrs + www.donnarutherford.org
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…SIRENS is an intimate one-woman tragi-comedy that blends poetic text with a richly composed soundscape, subtle and surreal imagery, and an ever-shifting spectator/performer relationship. Teasing and hypnotic, the piece chops up and replays the iconography of B-movies and early cinema. It’s a joyous and desperate attempt to re-work cinematic and cultural clichés into something heartfelt and profound. Sleepwalk Collective is a fast-emerging and award-winning performance group creating intimate performance experiences between the UK and Spain. NOMINATED Total Theatre Award 2011 WINNER First Prize, BE Festival Birmingham 2011 WINNER Best Female Performer, BE Festival Birmingham 2011 WINNER Best Direction, Festival ACT Bilbao 2010 “A powerful meditation on the shifting dynamics that seep into the relationship between middleaged children and elderly parents... Rutherford has an instinct for delving into the troubled heartland of everyday life. HHHHH.” The Herald
"Simply extraordinary... unique, surprising, captivating and intensely moving" Toni Racklin, head of theatre at the BARBICAN 14yrs + www.sleepwalkcollective.com
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THEATRE & DANCE
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REFLECTIONS ON THE SELF EXHIBITION
SILENCIO TANGO 1 March see page 16
23 Feb - 17 Mar see page 9
COMPANY CHAMELEON
FEVERED SLEEP/FUEL
GAMESHOW
THE FOREST PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITHTHE DUKES
22 FEBRUARY 8PM
NUFFIELD THEATRE
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29 FEBRUARY – 3 MARCH NUFFIELD THEATRE PUBLIC PERFORMANCES: 29 FEB 4.30PM AND 3RD MAR 10.30AM & 1.30PM SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES: 1-2 MAR 10.30AM & 1.30PM
Following their fantastic opener to our Autumn 2011 season, the Lowry’s dance-theatre company in residence, Company Chameleon, debut their latest work. It’s a story of desire, seduction and manipulation set in a world of glitz and glamour.
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Through a series of physical tasks and trials, we watch a gameshow contestant run the gauntlet for a life of fame, money and status. But does he fully understand what he seeks? Through Chameleon's trademark athleticism and energetic choreography, watch the game unfold and see what will be sacrificed in order to win big!
A thrilling performance for everyone 5 and over… The fantastic visual theatre company Fevered Sleep present a treat to excite your imagination and tickle your senses. A thrilling, surprising and enchanting performance for young people and adults that explores the landscape of the forest through music, dance, light and sound.
Packed with physical and mental challenges, from the sublime to the wholly absurd, Chameleon’s Anthony Missen and Kevin Turner invite the audience to spectate and pass their own judgment.
Following a sell-out run at Sydney Opera House, The Forest is an intelligent piece of dancetheatre for young people. Combining skilful performance and inventive choreography, it takes place within an exquisite set full of real trees.
Co-commissioned by The Lowry and DanceXchange, with additional support from Centrallechera, The Place, Live at LICA and Arts Council England. Approx: 60mins. 14yrs +
“The Forest treats its audience with respect and intelligence. It is like a beautiful object that is constantly assembled and reassembled by its playful cast.” HHHH The Guardian
www.companychameleon.com
“Exquisite… It’s like a dream of a night in a forest. There’s a grace to this show that captivated and moved me.” HHHH The Times Produced in association with Fuel. Commissioned by Lyric, Hammersmith.
Photo Credit: Brian Slater
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EAT DRINK SHOP
THEATRE & DANCE MANDY ROMERO
CAFÉ / BAR
STEVENAGE 6 MARCH 8PM
If you’re after something a little special, come and enjoy a cup of Atkinson’s finest fair-trade tea or coffee and a slice of quite simply the best cake on campus, supplied to us by The Ginger Bakers of Kendal. Our bar also boasts an impressive selection of locally brewed bottled beers, wines, lagers, ciders and spirits. We are open 11.00 – 4.00 Monday – Friday during term time and from an hour before the show on performance nights.
NUFFIELD THEATRE
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Stevenage is a unique solo combining performance, film and town planning. It is performed by Mandy Romero and directed by Cathy Butterworth. Stevenage – the first English New Town – is an unlikely subject for a show. But this performance beautifully explores many interlinked lives: a “young man wearing a brown corduroy suit”, an English pastoral poet, a young woman who moved south in the early 20th Century, a young film actor. It’s about a town and the lives of a post-war generation up to the present day.
GALLERY SHOP
All kinds of experience – from sex and cinema to town planning and taxi driving – weave themselves into uncanny patterns. Your guide through the labyrinth of connections is Mandy Romero, transgender artist…
From silver jewellery to sock monster toys, pottery to postcards, the Live at LICA shop based in the Peter Scott Gallery features an exciting and varied selection of work by local artists and craft makers. We also stock a large range of books, CDs and DVDs which relate to the current season, and cover diverse artistic practices including an exciting mix of publications and limited editions from the Live Art Development Agency 'Unbound' range.
Stevenage explores the ways in which we know, or think we know, who we are. It uses physicality, cinema and original architectural models to examine the role of place in creating identity. Roger Hill is running an artist’s workshop exploring place and the built environment in a context of relentless economic change. Taking the idea of “regeneration” as highly contentious, the workshop concentrates on the evidence we might assemble as artists to locate ourselves in a shifting and increasingly virtual world. 11am, Wednesday 7th March. For more information contact alice@liveatlica.org Photo Credit: Herman Sorgeloos
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CONTACT US AND BOOKING INFORMATION FORTHE CHEAPESTTICKETS AND OFFERS BOOK ONLINE VIA WWW.LIVEATLICA.ORG No Booking / Online Fees
Social Networks
We have now completely scrapped all of our internet transaction fees. Regardless of how you choose to pay, we don’t implement any booking, internet or postage fees.
Find us at www.facebook.com/liveatlica or Twitter users can tweet us direct @liveatlica
Concession rates apply to seniors (over 60s), the unemployed, disabled people and their essential companions. We also have specific rates for students (full-time education) and under 16s. Where appropriate ID will be required on collection of tickets – therefore advance concessions tickets must be collected in person. Box Office Location The box office is now located in the Peter Scott Gallery. Pre-sales & web-advance ticket collection is located in the Great Hall / Nuffield foyer from 7pm on the evening of the performance. Payment Whether you book online or in person, we accept all major credit and debit cards except American Express or Diners Cards.
The Great Hall Standard Seating Plan
HOWTO FIND US Box Office Opening Hours
By Car
Opening from 9 January
Leave the M6 motorway at junction 33 and take the A6 north towards Lancaster. Turn right at the third set of traffic lights on the A6 into the University main drive. Take the first exit left from the roundabout at the top of the main drive and follow signs for the Nuffield Theatre, Peter Scott Gallery or Great Hall.
Monday to Friday 11am – 5pm, and until the show on the evenings of performances. An answer-phone operates outside of these times. Gallery Opening Hours
Group Bookings
The Peter Scott Gallery is open during exhibitions Monday to Friday, 11am – 5pm and Saturday 11am – 4pm.
Special ticket deals are available for groups including school parties. Please contact the box office on 01524 594151 for further information.
Accessibility
Refunds and Exchanges These will not normally be made unless a performance has been cancelled. Please note all web advance tickets are non refundable. We are unable to reserve seats without payment.
All our venues are fully accessible including nearby car parking spaces (see map opposite). We have hearing loop systems in the Box Office, Great Hall and the Nuffield Theatre.
Dancing Lancaster Dancing Lancaster is a new scheme making it easier for you to discover the rich and diverse range of dance across the City by signposting classes, performances, festivals and more. Visit www.dancinglancaster.org Gift Vouchers
Guide / assistance dogs are welcome in the foyer and auditoria. PRICE BAND A PRICE BAND B W WHEELCHAIR SPACES
Available in multiples of £5 / £10. Please contact the box office for more information. All details listed in this programme are correct at time of going to press. E&OE
Patrons including: wheelchair users, disabled people and their essential companions are now able to book tickets directly online should they wish to do so. Please contact us in advance with any special access requirements.
Live at LICA is sited in the Great Hall complex on the campus of Lancaster University, set in 250 acres of beautiful landscaped parkland south of Lancaster city centre
Parking Visitor parking is available (free anywhere on campus after 6pm and weekends), including wheelchair accessible spaces. See map for nearest locations for parking. For weekday parking there are pay and display machines, alternatively parking scratchcards can be bought at the Reception lodge. Parking charges only apply weekdays before 6pm. Postal Address Live at LICA Great Hall Complex Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YW
THIS BROCHURE IS AVAILABLE IN LARGE PRINT FORMAT. PLEASE CONTACT THE BOX OFFICE (01524 594151) FOR A COPY.
By Bus Buses (numbers X1, 2, 2A, 3 and 4) leave from the centre of Lancaster very regularly (every 5 minutes on weekdays) for the 20 minute journey to the University. Buses also leave the city centre at Common Garden Street for the University. For bus information call ‘Traveline’ on 0871 200 22 33. All buses drop off at the University underpass, beneath Alexandra Square in the centre of campus. By Bike A scenic cycle route links campus to Lancaster city centre. The route takes around 25 minutes.
By Train There are direct rail links between Lancaster and London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Oxford and major cities in Scotland. The X1 bus service runs between the Railway Station and the University every 20 minutes Mon - Sat daytimes and hourly on Sunday afternoons and evenings. Taxis are also available from outside the station. Lancaster Railway Station is a 5 minute walk away from the city centre.
DIARY SPRING 2012 DATES NEW ART CLUB: QUIET ACT OF DESTRUCTION
19 JANUARY 8PM
MEL BRIMFIELD: THIS IS PERFORMANCE ART
20 JANUARY - 18 FEBRUARY
PETER SCOTT GALLERY
20 JANUARY - 17 MARCH
PETER SCOTT GALLERY
NUFFIELD THEATRE
Opening 6.30pm,Thu 19 January
NEW TO THE COLLECTION Opening 6.30pm,Thu 19 January
MANCHESTER CAMERATA ENSEMBLE
26 JANUARY 7.30PM
MAELSTROM DANCE: BALLAST
26 JANUARY 8PM
PROTEIN DANCE: LOL (LOTS OF LOVE)
31 JANUARY 8PM
NUFFIELD THEATRE
PETE MOSER: 24 HOURS IN A TOWER
1 FEBRUARY 8PM
NUFFIELD THEATRE
APOLLO SAXOPHONE QUARTET
2 FEBRUARY 7.30PM
DONNA RUTHERFORD: KIN
4 FEBRUARY 8PM
FODEN’S BRASS BAND
9 FEBRUARY 7.30PM
SLEEPWALK COLLECTIVE: AS THE FLAMES ROSE WE DANCED TO THE SIRENS
9 FEBRUARY 8PM
SALOME WITH SOUND AFFAIRS
16 FEBRUARY 7.30PM
NUFFIELD THEATRE
COMPANY CHAMELEON: GAMESHOW
22 FEBRUARY 8PM
NUFFIELD THEATRE
REFLECTIONS ON THE SELF
23 FEBRUARY - 17 MARCH
GREAT HALL NUFFIELD THEATRE
GREAT HALL NUFFIELD THEATRE GREAT HALL NUFFIELD THEATRE
PETER SCOTT GALLERY
DESIGN: ANONYNOUSDESIGN.NET
Opening 6.30pm, Wednesday 22 February
WHEEL FOR TUNES
23 FEBRUARY 7.30PM
FEVERED SLEEP/FUEL:THE FOREST
29 FEB – 3 MAR VARIOUS TIMES
SILENCIO TANGO ORCHESTRA
1 MARCH 7.30PM
MANDY ROMERO: STEVENAGE
6 MARCH 8PM
MARK PADMORE
8 MARCH 7.30PM
GREAT HALL
JENNIFER PIKE
15 MARCH 7.30PM
GREAT HALL
LANCASHIRE SINFONIETTA with XUEFEI YANG
22 MARCH 7.30PM
GREAT HALL
GREAT HALL NUFFIELD THEATRE GREAT HALL NUFFIELD THEATRE
Box Office 01524 594151 www.liveatlica.org boxoffice@liveatlica.org