The human life that’s here: A Symposium investigating Quarantine’s Quartet | 29-30 September 2016
Quarantine’s Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. was a major international performance event, staged at the Old Granada Studios, Manchester, on 26 March and 2 & 3 April 2016. It comprised four pieces of work developed over a two-year period. “Whilst each show was originally performed separately, together they constitute a sustained enquiry into the performance of ‘life’ – […]
Making Wallflower: Jane Mason – Choreographic advisor
Choreography of the everyday I remember the image of a man standing close to my then home in Brockley in SE London, during the late summer of 1996. He was stood on the edge of a curb, facing into the sloping leafy road, his body unusually still. Leaning forwards with one hand on the lamppost […]
Making Wallflower: Greg Akehurst – Production Manager and DJ
On Thursday I visited Norwich to look at enormous spaces for us to make and perform Quarantine’s Summer, Autumn, Winter. Spring – a sprawling quartet of work with 65 performers from all walks of life. I’ll figure out how to turn a massive space into a theatre and a cinema, a place where performance can happen. […]