All That Fall is the latest work by Irish company Pan Pan Theatre, a new recording of Samuel Beckett's first radio play. All That Fall is a multi-layered composition of voices that can be experienced as a black comedy, a murder mystery, a cryptic literary riddle or a quasi-musical score. The radio play will take place in Pan Pan’s uniquely atmospheric, theatrically tuned listening chamber with 60 rocking chairs installed in the darkness creating a blind theatre. The piece will be presented this summer : · 22 August 2011: Preview · 23 August - 2 September 2011: Projects Arts Centre Dublin (Ireland) The work is available for touring in 2011-2012.     Cryptic presents Orlando, Virginia Woolf's glorious ode to a lover, with an original soundtrack by Craig Armstrong and AGF, directed by Cathie Boyd, adapted by Darryl Pinckney and performed by Judith Williams. Orlando is a sensuous epic of self-discovery, fusing performance, visuals and technology (including Living Canvas and Point Cloud Data Imaging). 5-29 August 2011: Remarkable Arts, Edinburgh Festival (Scotland) A video is now online and the DVD is available on request. Orlando is available for touring in 2011-2012.     Ovaal's new performance To Intimate, choreographed by Mark Lorimer and Cynthia Loemij (dancers with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's company Rosas), is a piece for 2 performers and cellist Thomas Luks. To Intimate is an exploration of the artists' personal stories and the paradox of modern-day communication. It is a performance about ambiguity, an intimate and chaste duet on the theme of the inexpressible nature of all human bonds. To Intimate is produced by Ovaal with the support of Rosas and is coproduced by Les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg (Luxemburg), Charleroi/Danses (Belgium), Maison de la Musique de Nanterre (France), Kaaitheater (Belgium), Pact-Zollverein (Germany), La Bâtie-Festival de Genève (Switzerland). This new performance will be presented this year : • 8-9 September 2011 : Preview, La Bâtie-Festival de Genève (Switzerland) • 18-19 November 2011 : World premiere, Biennale 2011 Charleroi/danses, Charleroi (Belgium) • 25 November 2011 : Festival de danse de Cannes (France) • 30 November 2011 : Cultuurcentrum Kortrijk, Kortrijk (Belgium) • 7 December 2011 : Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg (Luxemburg) • 21-22 December 2011 : STUK, Leuven (Belgium)     Holistic Strata is Hiroaki Umeda's latest solo performance, an experiment with visual perceptions and hallucinations using dance and video imagery. An excerpt of the performance is online. Here are the forthcoming dates for Holistic Strata : · 19-20 February 2011 : World premiere, YCAM Yamaguchi (Japan) · 10-12 March 2011 : Festival EXIT 2011, Creteil (France) · 31 March-1 April 2011 : Festival VIA, Maubeuge (France) · 28 April 2011 : Maison de la musique de Nanterre (France) · 24 November 2011 : Festival de Danse, Cannes (France) Alongside the performances, Hiroaki Umeda has developed two new installations (Haptic and Holistic Strata) which will be part of the exhibition "Paranoïa" at the EXIT Festival in Créteil, the VIA Festival in Maubeuge and in Lille (13th April - 14 August 2011).     Holistic Strata is Hiroaki Umeda's latest solo performance, an experiment with visual perceptions and hallucinations using dance and video imagery. An excerpt of the performance is online. Here are the forthcoming dates for Holistic Strata : · 19-20 February 2011 : World premiere, YCAM Yamaguchi (Japan) · 10-12 March 2011 : Festival EXIT 2011, Creteil (France) · 31 March-1 April 2011 : Festival VIA, Maubeuge (France) · 28 April 2011 : Maison de la musique de Nanterre (France) · 24 November 2011 : Festival de Danse, Cannes (France) Alongside the performances, Hiroaki Umeda has developed two new installations (Haptic and Holistic Strata) which will be part of the exhibition "Paranoïa" at the EXIT Festival in Créteil, the VIA Festival in Maubeuge and in Lille (13th April - 14 August 2011).     The full length DVD of Orlando is now available. A trailer of the performance is also on line. Directed by Cathie Boyd, Cryptic's Orlando features a specially commissioned soundtrack by composers AGF and Craig Armstrong. The performance has unveiled two groundbreaking new technologies: Living Canvas and Point Cloud Data Imaging.     The full length DVD of Orlando is now available. A trailer of the performance is also on line. Directed by Cathie Boyd, Cryptic's Orlando features a specially commissioned soundtrack by composers AGF and Craig Armstrong. The performance has unveiled two groundbreaking new technologies: Living Canvas and Point Cloud Data Imaging.     Diamanda Galás asked Italian filmmaker Davide Pepe to create the visual analogue to Schrei 27, a radio work consisting of several short performances alternating extreme high-energy vocal work with absolute silence. Schrei 27 deals with asylum institutionalization – the warehousing of an individual whether for political or personal reasons - and each performance is a chapter of an induced confession. Schrei 27 marks Diamanda Galás' first major film project. The work employs the atypical speech and vocal signal processing that Diamanda Galás has been researching since 1979 and her original painted images. It is performed by actor Salvatore Bevilacqua. Schrei 27 will premiere in London, presented by the Spill Festival 2011 and the Barbican. · 22-23 April 2011 : Silk Street Theatre (UK)     Hiroaki Umeda's first choreography has centrifugal forces and gravity as its focal point. The work will premiere in France at the Maison de la Culture du Japon this weekend. Further tour dates this autumn are : · 12-13 November : 1.centrifugal and Haptic, Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris (France) · 19-20 November : 2.repulsion followed by Adapting for Distortion and Haptic, Festival Mettre en Scene, Le triangle, Rennes (France) · 23-24 November : 2.repulsion and Haptic, Pole Sud, Strasbourg (France) · 15 December : Adapting for Distortion followed by Haptic, Maison de la Musique, Nanterre (France) Click here to watch excerpts of Hiroaki Umeda's dance work.     Quaternaire is pleased to welcome on board Pan Pan with their latest performance : The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane. There's something strange in the neighbourhood of contemporary Denmark. Who are you going to call? That is the question. In Pan Pan's purgatorial presentation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, you the audience are faced with a choice: who is going to be, or not be, Hamlet? The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane will be available on tour from May 2011. Click here to see the 3 minute trailer. Pan Pan was founded in 1991 by director Gavin Quinn and designer Aedín Cosgrove. Pan Pan has continually re-examined and challenged the nature of its work and has resisted settling into well-tried formulas, constantly striving to explore the new and to express the contemporary. The company has created 15 new productions and has toured throughout Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia. Forthcoming tour dates this autumn : • 4 - 6 November 2010 : Oedipus Loves You, Cork, Ireland • 15 - 16 November 2010 : Oedipus Loves You, Galway, Ireland • 18 - 19 November 2010 : Oedipus Loves You, Limerick, Ireland     Back to Back Theatre are on tour in 2011/2012 with the following productions and residencies : FOOD COURT Part concert, part theatre show, FOOD COURT is set in the lush minimalism of an illuminated white void, the story of one woman's humiliation is played out in a psychological space constructed from light and sound. With live music improvised by the Necks. The performance has been presented at : the Melbourne Festival, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Festival and The Barbican, London. On tour in Europe in June and October-November 2011. THE DEMOCRATIC SET THE DEMOCRATIC SET is a residency model for creating short films and performances, using a custom-made film set, a neutral room with two opposing doors. Disturbingly obvious and tantalisingly strange, THE DEMOCRATIC SET is a rapid series of short live performances and screen-based video portraits created in collaboration communities. The residency has taken place at : Castlemaine State Festival, Wales Millennium Centre, the Aarhus Festival and Inbetween Time Festival of Live Art, Bristol. This residency is possible in June and the autumn of 2011, alongside other company tours. GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH is, an exploration of cultural appropriation in all forms, be it the theft of symbols, icons, rituals, aesthetic standards, or behaviour from one culture or subculture by another. The narrative tells of the Hindu elephant-headed God Ganesh's epic journey to Nazi Germany to recover the ancient Hindu symbol, the Swatstika, from Hitler. As the journey progresses, the ethics, morality and responsibility of presenting such a narrative becomes an issue of debate by the presenters of the work. The further Ganesh travels, the more enmeshed the presenters of the work become in the politics of appropriation. This work will premiere in the autumn of 2011.     Hotel Pro Forma's new performance War Sum Up (a Manga Opera on the nature of war) will premiere in Riga in September 2011. Performed by the Latvian Radio Choir, it will feature music by The Irrepressibles, Santa Ratniece and Gilbert Nouno. War Sum Up is co-produced by : the Latvian Radio Choir, Latvian National Opera, New Music Festival Arena, Musikhuset Aarhus and Hotel Pro Forma. Here are the future tour dates : · 2-3 September 2011: Latvian National Opera, Riga (Latvia) · 14-15 October 2011: New Music Festival Arena, Riga (Latvia) · 24-25 October 2011 : Odense Teater (Denmark) · 27-28 October 2011 : Musikhuset Aarhus (Denmark) · 5-6 November 2011: Royal Theatre (Denmark) · 6-7 June 2012 : Riga Opera Festival (Latvia)     Here are our upcoming dates and productions for Handspring Puppet Company : Woyzeck on the Highveld - Handspring Puppet Company/William Kentridge) · 20-21 April 2011 : Teatro Verdi - Teatro del Buratto, Milan (Italy) · 26-30 April 2011 : Scene Nationale de Senart, Combs-La-Ville (France) · 3-7 May 2011 : Theatre de Sartrouville et des Yvelines (France) This production is available on tour from September 2011. Or you could kiss me(new performance : Royal National Theatre/Handspring Puppet Company) · 14 October-18 November 2010 : National Theatre, London (UK) This production is available on tour in 2011/2012. Il Riturno d'Ulisse- (Handspring Puppet Company/William Kentridge) This production is available on tour in May/June 2012.     Hotel Pro Forma, Akram Khan and Hiroaki Umeda will be presented at the Melbourne International Arts Festival this October. Tokyo-based choreographer, dancer, sound and light designer Hiroaki Umeda will be showing two of his latest solos Adapting for distortion and Haptic. • 14-17 October : The CUB Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre, Southbank The internationally acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan will be presenting the new group performance Vertical Road. • 19-23 October : The CUB Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre, Southbank Quaternaire represents the company in France only. Danish contemporary visual artists Hotel Pro Forma will perform Tomorrow, in a year, a revolutionary electro opera with music by The Knife. • 20-23 October : The Arts Centre, State Theatre, Melbourne Excerpts of videos from these shows can be seen here.     Diamanda Galas is on tour in Italy this autumn with two concerts. · 9 October 2010: Your Kisses Are Like Fire, Transart, Bolzano (Italy) · 15 October 2010: Songs of Exile, Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emilia (Italy)     2010 sees the arrival of Cryptic’s latest production, Orlando. Directed by Cathie Boyd, Cryptic’s staging of Virginia Woolf’s time travelling biographical masterpiece features a specially commissioned soundtrack by composers AGF and Craig Armstrong and will be performed by the actress Madeleine Worrall, with vocal and live electronic accompaniment by Antye Greie (AGF). Orlando will unveil two groundbreaking new technologies: Living Canvas and Point Cloud Data Imaging. Living Canvas is an interactive tracking technology which uses the performer's body and clothes as projection surface and has been developed jointly by Cryptic and Digital Design Studio at the Glasgow School of Art, with support from the Arts & Humanities Research Council. Point Cloud Data Imaging utilises high resolution laser scanning technology to generate 3-D digital depictions of objects such as buildings, and will be used to realise the Orlando set. Click here to see the first images of the performance. The 2010 tour dates are : 30th September - 2nd October : Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 14th - 16th October : Espoo City Theatre, Finland 2nd - 6th November : Tramway, Glasgow as part of the IETM     Dean & Britta are on the road again with their tribute to Andy Warhol and the Screen Tests from the 1960s. Here are the forthcoming tour dates : · 5 October : Tonlagen, Hellerau-European Center for the Arts, Dresden (Germany) · 7-8 October : La Filature, Scène Nationale de Mulhouse (France) Click here to watch the video of 13 Most Beautiful Songs...     Here are the updated tours for Akram Khan this autumn : · 29 September - 2 October: Ruhrtriennale, Gebläsehalle, Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord, (Germany) · 5-9 October: Sadlers's Wells, London (UK) · 19-23 October: Melbourne International Arts Festival, Merlyn Theatre, (Australia) · 28 October: Brighton Dome, Brighton (UK) · 11-12 November: Schauspielhaus, Koln (Germany) · 15-16 November: Taliesin Arts centre, Swansea, Wales (UK) · 19-20 November: Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk (UK) · 24 November: Teatro Comunale, Bolzano (Italy) · 2-4 December: deSingel, Antwerp (Belgium) Quaternaire tours Akram Khan in France only. Click here for Akram Khan's interview about Vertical Road.

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