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Artsadmin
Artsadmin is a UK-based organisation founded in 1979 by Judith Knight, MBE and Seonaid Stewart, providing project management, producing, support and resources for artists working in the fields of performance, dance, live art and mixed media work. They became increasingly aware of the lack of producing and administrative support for independent artists and companies, and set up Artsadmin as a reaction to this. Early partners included Hesitate and Demonstrate, Mike Figgis, Pip Simmons Theatre Group, Pip Simmons, Welfare State International, Smith and Goody and Natasha Morgan amongst others. They established a strong relationship with the Mickery Theater Amsterdam which provided a gateway to the rest of Europe, and many projects were subsequently co-produced in partnership with European theatres and festivals. Support from UK trusts and foundations enabled Artsadmin to provide forward-looking management that could sustain companies between projects to develop their work, and the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nic Green
Nic Green is a performance maker and activist, brought up in Yorkshire, but based in Glasgow. Her work is based on the environment, social responsibility and relationships. She is well known for her use of nudity on stage, for example ''Trilogy'' (2009–2010), which is a two-hour show in three parts. It is a feminist, political statement on the body where she, three other women and a man are naked for the duration of it as well as asking members of the audience to take their clothes off too. Life Nic Green graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Performance Practises. She often focusses her work within communities and public arts with her areas of influence and research being varied and cross many disciplines from Systems Thinking to Jungian Synchronicity. Her past projects have been about spaces, about radical and engaged and making the political more accessible. For example, she led a project in collaboration with Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacy Makishi
Stacy Makishi is a Hawaiian-born performance artist, physical theatre and live art specialist. Her work often involves combining autobiographical experience and comedy with inspiration from fictional sources, such as Hollywood movies or novels. She has been identified by ''The Guardian'' as part of a new generation of artists making 'innovative shows . . .with and by young people'. Biography Makishi was born in Hawaii,Jason S. Price (2016), ''Modern Popular Theatre'', Macmillan, pp. 166–167, . and graduated from the University of Hawaii. She appeared in stage and TV productions there, including plays by Hawaiian playwright Edward Sakamoto and a TV series based on '' Pidgin to Da Max''. Makishi moved to California, and worked at the Comedy Store as a stand-up comic. She moved to London after working with Split Britches theatre company in New York. in 2019 she became the second recipient of the Live Art Development Agency's Arthole award, which provides artists with £10,000 to u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Lee
Rosemary Lee is an English director, choreographer and performer. She has been working since the 1970s. producing large-scale installation pieces, site-specific and a range of mixed media works. The projects she creates revolve around the idea of building relationships and bringing communities together; with most of her work involving cast members of a variety of age ranges. Education and teaching Lee first became interested in dance in 1974 during her teenage years; when attending weekend courses at The Place in Woking, Lee felt a sudden keen interest whilst participating in a warmup barefoot. Lee was educated in at Phyllis Adams School of Dance and Lowestoft before attending higher education. In 1981, Lee graduated from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance with a bachelor's degree in Contemporary Dance. In 1982, Lee travelled to New York to study under the likes of Sara Pearson, Lisa Kraus and Ruth Currier. She has since become a Fellow at both C-DaRE Coventry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosana Cade
Rosana Cade is a Glasgow-based live performance artist. They are known mainly for their queer, feminist and activist approaches to work. They are notable for winning the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards 2016, for Physical/Visual Theatre with Cock and Bull, and has toured work to The National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre and international venues including Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, Frascati, Amsterdam and Kwai Fong Theatre, Hong Kong. Life Cade studied BA (hons) Contemporary Performance Practice at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, class of 2011. Rosana co-founded //BUZZCUT//, a collaboration creating experimental events for live performance. In 2016 Cade was announced as Artist in Residence at The Marlborough Theatre in Brighton. Key Works ''Walking:Holding'' Commissioned in 2011, ''Walking:Holding'' is an experiential live performance that involves one audience member at a time. An audience member is guided through a planned route, holding hands with different people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DV8 Physical Theatre
DV8 Physical Theatre (or Dance and Video 8) was a physical theatre company based at Artsadmin in London, United Kingdom. It was officially founded in 1986 by Lloyd Newson (1986–2015), Michelle Richecoeur (1986–1988) and Nigel Charnock (1986–1989, 1992). Lloyd Newson led the company as choreographer and artistic director from its inception, apart from the production ''My Sex, Our Dance'' (1986), which was co-created and performed with Nigel Charnock. DV8 officially ended in April 2022 when Lloyd Newson announced his retirement via the company web page. DV8's work is characterised by the desire to communicate ideas and feelings clearly with a focus on socio-political issues. The work challenges the limitations of dance by using any means necessary to find the most appropriate way to say something, thereby incorporating elements of theatre, dance, film, and, increasingly, text. DV8 toured work in the UK and to 28 countries worldwide, and received 55 national and internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Sharrocks
Amy Sharrocks is a UK based live artist, sculptor, filmmaker and curator from London, England. Sharrocks' work focuses on collaboration and exchange, inviting people on journeys that they also help to create. She is known for large scale, live artworks in public places that use everyday activities, such as swimming or walking, in spectacular ways. Many of her artworks investigate the nature of cities, explore the importance of fluidity as a way of thinking, and question our constructs of city life. Her work has been supported by Arts Council England, The Live Art Development Agency and Artsadmin. Major works include ''SWIM'' (2007), a 50-person swim across London, and the ongoing ''Museum of Water'' (2013-Ongoing), a collection of over one thousand bottles of water from around the world. Early life and education Sharrocks grew up in Camden and was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, the University of Bristol, where she studied English and French, and in Fine Art at Camberwell Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 2008 for the Commonwealth realms were announced on 29 December 2007, to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2008. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged firstly by the country whose ministers advised the Queen on the appointments, then by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, ''etc.'') and then divisions (Military, Civil, ''etc.'') as appropriate. United Kingdom Order of Companions of Honour (CH) * Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CBE, stage and screen actor, for services to drama and to equality. Knight Bachelor * John Michael Ashworth, for public service *John Irving Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford and president, Academy of Medical Sciences, for services to medicine * John James Griffin Good, chairman, Edrington Group, for services to industry in Scotland * Patrick Hugh Haren, deputy chairman, Viridian Group Ltd, for services to the electricity ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Station House Opera
Station House Opera is a British performance art and theatre company. It was founded in 1980 by Julian Maynard Smith, who is still artistic director. Station House Opera had a long working relationship with Stichting Mickery Workshop in Amsterdam, Netherlands. History Julian Maynard Smith (son of the evolutionary geneticist John Maynard Smith) and Miranda Payne founded the company in 1980, and Maynard Smith remains its artistic director. Maynard studied fine and performing arts in the 1970s and works as an actor, writer, performer and director. The company has worked with artists and others from many different fields. The work varies enormously in scale, appearance and location and uses spectacle to explore the intimate relationship between people and the environment they inhabit. Described as "Brilliant...one of Britain's most inventive experimental theatre companies" and "unlike anything you've ever seen before",David Archibald, Edinburgh Evening News, August 25, 2005 the compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selina Thompson
Selina Thompson is a performance artist based in the United Kingdom. Her work is focused on the way that identity shapes our lives and intersects with politics, the environment and topics such as freedom. Her work has been shown at Spill, Fierce, Mayfest, the Birmingham REP and the West Yorkshire Playhouse Leeds Playhouse is a theatre in the city centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire. Having originally opened in 1970 in a different location in Leeds, it reopened as West Yorkshire Playhouse, on Quarry Hill, in March 1990. After a refurbishment in 2018-20 .... She has created work for hairdressers, toilets, galleries, pubs and theatres. Thompson is the artistic director of Selina Thompson Ltd, an interdisciplinary company creating installations, theatre shows, workshops and radio work, where she works alongside Sarah Cruickshank, Toni-Dee Paul and other collaborators. Key works ''salt.'' ''salt.'' is a one-woman show inspired by the artist retracing the journey she took from Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pip Simmons Theatre Group
The Pip Simmons Theatre Group was formed in 1968. Pip Simmons, the founder, served both as writer and director, but he was open to the ideas of others in the company, much of their work being devised pieces. Initially London based, it was one of the first English experimental theatre companies but spent much of its time working in Europe where there was a more sympathetic financial and institutional network. Simmons maintained the momentum of the group by taking a series of 'residencies' in theatre spaces around the UK and Europe, which was not a familiar concept at the time. The group performed at the Mickery Theatre, under the nurturing gaze of Ritsaert ten Cate, along with contemporaries such as Mike Figgis, and The Wooster Group. Pip Simmons has said of Ritsaert: 'Ritsaert made it possible for us to experiment. He was learning with us, and he didn't hide it...I did my best work there in Holland, and Ritsaert stimulated it. His stimulation wasn't just for one short period, though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creative Europe
Creative Europe is a European Union programme for the cultural and creative sectors. In its first phase, going from 2014 to 2020, it had a budget of € 1.47 billion, which were expanded to € 2.44 billion in its second phase (2021-2027). History The programme was approved by the European Parliament on 19 November 2013 and adopted by the European Council on 3 December 2013. It came into force on 1 January 2014.REGULATION (EU) No 1295/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 11 December 2013 establishing the Creative Europe Programme (2014 to 2020) and repealing Decisions No 1718/2006/EC, No 1855/2006/EC and No 1041/2009/EC. Official Journal of the European Union. 11 December 2013. Web. 4 February 2014 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:347:0221:0237:EN:PDF A total of 650 of the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted in favour of the programme, with 32 against and 10 abstaining."Creative Europe Approved by European Parliament". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been described as a '' sui generis'' political entity (without precedent or comparison) combining the characteristics of both a federation and a confederation. Containing 5.8per cent of the world population in 2020, the EU generated a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of around trillion in 2021, constituting approximately 18per cent of global nominal GDP. Additionally, all EU states but Bulgaria have a very high Human Development Index according to the United Nations Development Programme. Its cornerstone, the Customs Union, paved the way to establishing an internal single market based on standardised legal framework and legislation that applies in all member states in those matters, and only those matters, where the states have agreed to act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
