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Branches: The Nature of Crisis is a site-specific performance created in Wepre Forest, Flintshire by choreographer Constanza Macras for National Theatre Wales. The full performance involved a three-hour walk through the woods, but on September 15th the actors stayed behind to create a new shorter ‘remix’ which was beamed to the centre of Cardiff and streamed on The Space. http://thespace.org/items/s000107e?t=jw47
Branches has an overall theme of ‘transformation’ – the ways in which any of us can suddenly change – through stress, through having too much to drink or through magic. The cast includes dancers from Macras’s Berlin-based company Dorky Park, alongside Welsh performers. Among the characters, we see a hen party lost in the woods.
The show was beamed to St Mary Street, Cardiff, site of many nightly hen parties, and famous for groups of revelers wearing fancy dress for their nights out. On a huge billboard among the partying crowds, images from the forest were projected and the characters from Branches joined their counterparts in Cardiff. You can switch from the forest stream to the Cardiff stream by clicking on the thumbnails under the player.
Audience and passers-by were encouraged to interact with the forest livestream via text message – writing their own version of the story to appear alongside the images on the huge screen.
Part of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad.
To find out more about the production, visit the National Theatre Wales website, or follow @ntwtweets and #ntw22 on Twitter.
by TheSpace.orgon: 19th September 2012
On Friday 4th and Saturday 5th October, Migrations in partnership with Pontio presented Bodies in Urban Spaces, a travelling performance rediscovering the urban spaces of Bangor, Gwynedd.
The original creation of Austria’s Willie Dorner, Bodies in Urban Spaces has become a worldwide sensation. With successful tours to Paris, Vienna, Moscow, Philadelphia, Montreal and Seoul. In Bangor, over the two days, over a thousand people experienced the performance.
Bodies in Urban…
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How did they do that?!
Keith Morris
A worldwide sensation which has toured Paris, Vienna and Moscow is now quite literally squeezed into Bangor.
Bodies in Urban Spaces aimed to help people experience urban architecture in a new and unique way – by squeezing into parts of the city itself.
Keith Morris
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first met Peter Kraus (who you see here tearing it up back in the day)
walking down the street in the early eighties. At the time he was our
milkman, and because he was keen to get his round finished so he could
get on with one of his adventures later in the day he…
I’m not sure quite when it happened but pop music has taken a real turn for the worse over the last decade. It is now created by committee, teams of writers and producers undertaking market research to engineer the most marketable track. It is about spending millions on a video that shows scantily clad clothes horses writhing unconvincingly…
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Midway - a film by Chris Jordan
Trailer Review
you know i'm pretty optimistic much of the time, but occasionally i sink. And seeing this was one of those moments. aside from the impacts of global warming / climate change and the affects that is and will continue to have on us (humans) the environment that sustains us all and the…
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Artist: Sarah Louise Owen
Album: Dream Catcher
Release Date: 25th November 2012
The female voice is a wondrous thing in my opinion. It can make more of even the most mundane lyrics than you could reasonably expect. Not that any of the lyrics on “Dream Catcher” are mundane – far from it – but Sarah Louise Owen…
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On the 12th August, 2012, the fantastic Jelili Atiku came to visit TOGYG, the artist group run by Bangor Greadigol, based at The Old Goodsyard, Treborth. Jelili inspired us all with his enthusiasm and pulled performance pieces from even the most reticent of us. A true collaboration, where each artist expressed their individuality while still remaining but one part of a group.
Andrew Agace…
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