As June hovers on the horizon and, following Sunday's truly glamorous (?!) film premiere (coming soon to a YouTube near you), Word of Warning is now officially halfway through Spring/Summer. We are, however, already in full production mode for Works Ahead, bringing four new commissions from four artists at very different points in their careers (3+4 June at Contact).
Before that, however, you can catch Hidden Track's Standard Elite at Chorlton Arts Festival on Sun 29 May; and over at Physical Fest, Liverpool there's Onur Orkut and Fionnuala Dorrity (til tonight Fri 27 May) and Wendy Houstoun (28 May).
While things are a bit quiet in these parts, a bit further afield but worth a trip, is NEAT16 in Nottingham (until 12 June). Whilst I find their website utterly impenetrable, downloading the brochure reveals there's some interesting stuff on - including Michael Pinchbeck, Cloudcuckoolanders, Rachael Young and video performance from Gob Squad; dance courtesy of Dance4 - including Leila MacMillan and Lucy Suggate; plus Font Festival (til 31 May) including The Gramophones, Handmade Theatre, Olwen Davies.
Next week (w/c 30 May) the only place to be seen, of course is WoW's very own Works Ahead at Contact on Fri 3 + Sat 4 June. Two very new and wildly divergent double bills: in the afternoons' Compact Edition we journey into Contact's hidden spaces with Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam for two intimate and intense stories of lives half-remembered; then in the Evening Edition, we take over both theatre spaces for the health and safety-conscious Top Joe, channeling Ross Kemp and James Dyson; and the utterly unpredictable and definitely outrageous Lucy McCormick - in what she's terming a trashstep-dubpunk morality play for the modern age! (nb apologies wordofwarning.org has developed some inexplicable gremlins that we are struggling to fix, please bear with us!)
If we haven't sated you with Works Ahead, on Sun 5 June you can catch Victoria Melody's Hair Peace at Slung Low's HUB in Leeds, or the following week (w/c 6 Jun), looking out for Sophie Willan at the Lowry, RITE at Islington Mill and Unfinished Business + Baba Israel at Contact.
Hoping to encounter you in the basement at Contact!
Best
Tamsin
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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 5pm + 6pm. £4/2 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam
Hidden stories and half-remembered truths.
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD EVENING EDITION
Top Joe + Lucy McCormick
From Dyson to the Passion - an unpredictable double bill.
Wed 29 Jun, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
A ROOM FOR ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Igor and Moreno
For those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all that’s left is the desire to scream.
Sat 9 Jul, 12noon-5pm. Free | St Ann’s Square, Mcr City Centre
HAZARD 2016
Incidental intervention and sited performance... Cheeky, thought-provoking sprees of eccentricity...
Word of Warning Spring/Summer 2016 is brought to you by hÅb
with Derelict, UCLan, the Whitworth, Contact, Dance Manchester, HOME, The Lowry + The Place.
Before that, however, you can catch Hidden Track's Standard Elite at Chorlton Arts Festival on Sun 29 May; and over at Physical Fest, Liverpool there's Onur Orkut and Fionnuala Dorrity (til tonight Fri 27 May) and Wendy Houstoun (28 May).
While things are a bit quiet in these parts, a bit further afield but worth a trip, is NEAT16 in Nottingham (until 12 June). Whilst I find their website utterly impenetrable, downloading the brochure reveals there's some interesting stuff on - including Michael Pinchbeck, Cloudcuckoolanders, Rachael Young and video performance from Gob Squad; dance courtesy of Dance4 - including Leila MacMillan and Lucy Suggate; plus Font Festival (til 31 May) including The Gramophones, Handmade Theatre, Olwen Davies.
Next week (w/c 30 May) the only place to be seen, of course is WoW's very own Works Ahead at Contact on Fri 3 + Sat 4 June. Two very new and wildly divergent double bills: in the afternoons' Compact Edition we journey into Contact's hidden spaces with Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam for two intimate and intense stories of lives half-remembered; then in the Evening Edition, we take over both theatre spaces for the health and safety-conscious Top Joe, channeling Ross Kemp and James Dyson; and the utterly unpredictable and definitely outrageous Lucy McCormick - in what she's terming a trashstep-dubpunk morality play for the modern age! (nb apologies wordofwarning.org has developed some inexplicable gremlins that we are struggling to fix, please bear with us!)
If we haven't sated you with Works Ahead, on Sun 5 June you can catch Victoria Melody's Hair Peace at Slung Low's HUB in Leeds, or the following week (w/c 6 Jun), looking out for Sophie Willan at the Lowry, RITE at Islington Mill and Unfinished Business + Baba Israel at Contact.
Hoping to encounter you in the basement at Contact!
Best
Tamsin
facebook/WarnMcr | @WarnMcr | Word of Warning Google calendar
Information for artists: www.habarts.org
Been to one of our events recently? Please help us by taking a few minutes to fill out our online survey, a joint project with Live Art UK & The Audience Agency learning about national audiences for live art.
Spread the word that #CultureMatters | Watch and share the new ACE video
Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 5pm + 6pm. £4/2 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam
Hidden stories and half-remembered truths.
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD EVENING EDITION
Top Joe + Lucy McCormick
From Dyson to the Passion - an unpredictable double bill.
Wed 29 Jun, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
A ROOM FOR ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Igor and Moreno
For those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all that’s left is the desire to scream.
Sat 9 Jul, 12noon-5pm. Free | St Ann’s Square, Mcr City Centre
HAZARD 2016
Incidental intervention and sited performance... Cheeky, thought-provoking sprees of eccentricity...
Word of Warning Spring/Summer 2016 is brought to you by hÅb
with Derelict, UCLan, the Whitworth, Contact, Dance Manchester, HOME, The Lowry + The Place.