Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

What a difference a week makes - from snowstorm to heatwave in less than 7 days. Seasonal discombobulation continues and while Hulme Park is blazing (albeit rather mottled today), in the icy wilds of the Word of Warning office where the sun never shines, we are still huddled round a candle in mittens and sheepskin slippers!

This weekend you can still catch Week 53 Festival's sited Dante or Die's Handle with Care (til 8 May) and 2 Magpies' Last Resort (Fri 6 + Sat 7 May); Volcano Theatre's Century Song (6-8 May) and Robbie Synge's Douglas (Sat 7 May) plus Rimini Protokoll's 100% Salford (Sat 7 + Sun 8 May). 

Contact's Flying Solo 2016 (5-14 May) is also getting into its stride with Matt Miller's Sticking and Stuart Bowden's She Was Probably Not A Robot both on Sat 7 May.

Josh Coates's Get Yourself Together is at the Royal Exchange (Fri 6 + Sat 7 May); and further afield in Lancaster, today Fri 6 May there's Eggs Collective's Late Night Love (Dukes Theatre) and Leo Burtin's Midnight Soup (Storey Institute) - both also coming to parts Mancunian w/c 16 May.

Next week (w/c 9 May) look out for Claire Cunningham's Give Me A Reason To Live  at the Lowry on Tue 10 May.

Meanwhile, at Contact's Flying Solo 2016 there's Louise Wallwein's Glue and Jenna Watt's Faslane (both Tue 10 + Wed 11 May). While Ria Hartley's Untouchable and Cheryl Martin's Alaska are both sold-out, you could also check out Igor Vrebrac (Thu 12 May) or Ben Mellor + Kate O'Donnell (both on Fri 13 + Sat 14 May).

The following week (w/c 16 May) for those of a physical theatre bent, Liverpool picks up the festival vibe with Physical Fest (20-28 May) while in parts Mancunian Leo Burtin is at Sale Waterside and Eggs Collective are at HOME. 
We, at WoW will also serving up a Sunday double-yolked scramble from the aforementioned Eggs with self-styled film auteur Richard Dedomenici premiering Queer As Yolk: Redux also at HOME.
Enjoy your eggs sunny-side up - it won't last!

Best

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
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.

Sticking with the theme of regally unseasonal weather, as we struggle with the return to full-on winter, at least there's a frantic schedule of indoor work to shelter us from this almost antipodean meteorological confusion. 

Still to come this weekend there's Clod Ensemble's An Anatomie in Four Quarters (til 30 Apr), as the opening event of the Lowry's Week 53 Festival; Made in China's Tonight I'm Gonna Be The New Me at the Royal Exchange (also til 30 Apr); a two day sonic feast with Rosanne Robertson's Too Much at the Penthouse (previewing tonight Fri 29 Apr) and Weisslich 7 at Nexus Art Cafe on Sat 30 Apr; and, over in Liverpool, at the Unity Daniel Bye's Going Viral (29+30 Apr).

As May lands, next week (w/c 2 May) Week 53 Festival remains a strong contender with Thaddeus Phillips 17 Border Crossings (Tue 3 + Wed 4 May); and, at the more theatre end of the scale, the sited Dante or Die's Handle with Care (5-8 May) and 2 Magpies' Last Resort (Fri 6 + Sat 7 May); more visually oriented are Volcano Theatre's Century Song (6-8 May) and Robbie Synge's Douglas;  and, for me most intriguing is Rimini Protokoll's 100% Salford (Sat 7 + Sun 8 May).  If you're in the mood for partying there's also The Dock Launch Party (Thu 5 May).

Though I'm not sure where my horse-racing metaphors are coming from, Contact's Flying Solo 2016 (5-14 May) is also coming up on the rails.  First out of the potentially WoW-friendly gates, on Sat 7 May, come two spoken word offerings with Matt Miller's Sticking (Sat 7 May) and Stuart Bowden's She Was Probably Not A Robot.

Beyond the festival field, also look out for Josh Coates's Get Yourself Together (Fri 6 + Sat 7 May) at the Royal Exchange; and in Lancaster, Eggs Collective's Late Night Love (Dukes Theatre) and Leo Burtin's Midnight Soup (Storey Institute) both on Fri 6 May.

The following week (w/c 9 May) Flying Solo at Contact really takes over - with Ria Hartley, Jenna Watt, Louise Wallwein and Cheryl Martin (proud to say all have formerly played the WoW-card!) Elsewhere, also not to be missed is Claire Cunningham at the Lowry.

I'm hoping that I've managed to make at least some sense of the somewhat complex landscape of the next couple of weeks - all I've got to do now is figure out which bits I'm going to make it to!

Best

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
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.

On this sad, seasonally confused morning, the Guardian's purple rain forecast (scroll down) seems apt... and with the next couple of weeks presenting an increasingly complex picture, my head is whirring just a bit...

Before I attempt to navigate a path through the next fortnight,  a different kind of whirl keeps tonight and tomorrow simple, as Turn 2016 comes twirling and twizzling through Contact's doors.  With artists way too numerous to name, you can catch 10 pieces tonight (Fri 22) and 11 completely different pieces tomorrow (Sat 23 Apr); and with the *extremely* reasonable 2 night pass on offer (£11/6), it's an easy way to fill your entire dance card for the year in one go!

If you really must, I guess you could complicate things and still catch Unlimited Theatre's Am I Dead (til 23 Apr) at the Royal Exchange; or Transform Festival (22+23 Apr) in Leeds - featuring Chris Goode + Co's Wanted and Holzinger + Riebeek's Schönheitsabend or even, in Liverpool, Mark Thomas's Trespass at the Everyman + Playhouse also tonight, Fri 22 Apr.

Next week (w/c 25 Apr) things start to get a bit frantic with: Made in China's Tonight I'm Gonna Be The New Me at the Royal Exchange (28-30 Apr); sonic bursts courtesy of Rosanne Robertson's Too Much at the Penthouse (previewing on Fri 29 Apr) and Weisslich 7 at Nexus Art Cafe on Sat 30 Apr.   Further afield, the HUB, Leeds has Andy Smith's The Preston Bill on Tue 26 Apr; in Preston itself the Continental has LaPelle's Factory's Cloudcuckoolanders on Wed 27 Apr and Eggs Collective's Late Night Love on Thu 28 Apr; and the Unity, Liverpool has Daniel Bye's Going Viral (29+30 Apr).

The main event in parts Mancunian however is the arrival of the Week 53 Festival (28 April - 8 May) at the Lowry - make sure to check out its hub in the Dock.  Most WoW notable in this first week is Clod Ensemble's An Anatomie in Four Quarters (28-30 Apr).  Looking ahead to the following week (w/c 2 May) also look out for Thaddeus Phillips, Volcano Theatre and, particularly, Rimini Protokoll.

The week of 2 May sees a veritable festival clash with Contact's Flying Solo 2016 kicking off (5-14 May) - though fear not as the most WoW-like activity takes place the following week, but you might want to give Matt Miller and Stuart Bowden a look. Also in w/c 2 May, look out for  Josh Coates at the Royal Exchange; and Eggs Collective and Leo Burtin in Lancaster.

I hope that hasn't worn you out as much as compiling it has me!  I'm off to chomp on an energy bar while borrowing some of the exuberant energy generated by tonight's Turn!

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016

Fri 22 + Sat 23 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2016
Twenty new works in a two day spin around new northern dance – energy bursting from every nook and cranny...
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, times + prices tbc | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Hidden stories from Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD
Unpredictable double bill from Top Joe + Lucy McCormick.
          
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.

So, despite threatened snow, the shoots of spring might finally be appearing; the students are returning and we've got a little dance-fuelled spring in our steps with the almost embarrassingly lithe and bendy Turn on the horizon...

But before that, don't forget to make a foray up to Derelict which continues in Preston with Glen Neath + David Rosenberg's Séance (until 16 Apr); the very in demand epicurean delights of Zuppa Theatre's Pop Up Love Party tonight Fri 15 + tomorrow Sat 16 Apr; plus The Larks' Join Me, also tomorrow, Sat 16 April. 
Looking east - over in Sheffield the Wrought Festival kicks off tonight Fri 15 April (til 17 Apr) featuring Michael Pinchbeck, Ant Hampton, Third Angel, Ellie Harrison + Jaye Kearney and more.

Next week (w/c 18 April), we at WoW will be firmly ensconced in Contact for Turn 2016 (Fri 22 + Sat 23 Apr). From the virtuosic to the quizzical with a touch of techno-interactivity for good measure, 21 new pieces of dance spread over two (very) full evenings - featuring Jo Ashbridge, Bridget Fiske, Tom Bowes Dance, Gracefool Collective, Adam John Roberts, Giorgio de Carolis, Sap Dance and many, many more.

The venues are all back into the swing of things with Unlimited Theatre's Am I Dead (20-23 Apr) at the Royal Exchange; Wendy Houstoun's Pact with Pointlessness on Wed 21 Apr at the Lowry; Transform Festival (22+23 Apr) in Leeds - featuring Chris Goode + Co's Wanted and Holzinger + Riebeek's Schönheitsabend; plus, in Liverpool, Mark Thomas's Trespass is at the Everyman + Playhouse on Fri 22 Apr.

The following week (w/c 25 Apr) keeps busy with: Made in China at the Royal Exchange; LaPelle's Factory and Eggs Collective at the Continental, Preston; Daniel Bye at the Unity, Liverpool; Andy Smith at the HUB, Leeds; and the arrival of the Week 53 Festival (28 April - 8 May) at the Lowry.

I'm off to indulge in Zuppa's Michelin-starred gastronomy before limbering up for the frenetic whirl of Turn!

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016

Fri 22 + Sat 23 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2016
Twenty new works in a two day spin around new northern dance – energy bursting from every nook and cranny...
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, times + prices tbc | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Hidden stories from Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD
Unpredictable double bill from Top Joe + Lucy McCormick.
          
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.

So as another week closes, we're all hugged out in Manchester, but our partners, Derelict, in Preston might still give you a good HUGging - tomorrow, Sat 9 Apr at the Harris Museum. 

This weekend and next is all about unusual festivals, up in Glasgow there's Buzzcut (til 10 Apr - look out for Lucy McCormick, coming soon to a Works Ahead near you!) while a bit closer, Derelict kicks into action tonight in Preston, with the aforementioned Verity Standen's HUG (Fri 8 Apr + Sat 9 Apr); continuing with Glen Neath + David Rosenberg's Séance (11-16 April); the unique gastronomy of Zuppa Theatre's Pop Up Love Party on Fri 15 + Sat 16 Apr plus a special flash of The Larks' Join Me, also on Sat 16 April.  While over the hills in Sheffield, next weekend, you can also check out the Wrought Festival of one-to-ones (15-17 April).

The following week (w/c 18 April), the rather discombobulated easter seems finally to be over and you can catch Unlimited Theatre at the Royal Exchange; Wendy Houstoun at the Lowry; Transform Festival in Leeds and Mark Thomas in Liverpool.

Word of Warning, meanwhile, will also be twizzling back into action at Contact, with our annual foray into the world of dance - Turn 2016 (Fri 22 + Sat 23 April).  While you're all having a HUG in Preston, save a thought for us - it's not all hugs and air-kisses here at WoW - we'll be spending the day trying to unpick the logistical intricacies of staging 21 pieces of dance in two nights!

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016

Thu 7 Apr, 6-9pm. By donation | Thursday Lates at the Whitworth
Fri 8 Apr, 6-8pm; Sat 9 Apr, 1-5pm. Free | Harris Museum, Preston
HUG
Verity Standen
‘Song erupts around you... startling, moving and genuinely immersive.’ The Guardian           
[Limited capacity, see website]
               
Fri 22 + Sat 23 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2016
Twenty new works in a two day spin around new northern dance – energy bursting from every nook and cranny...
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, times + prices tbc | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Hidden stories from Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD
Unpredictable double bill from Top Joe + Lucy McCormick.
          
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.

So cholcolate-overeating-weekend has been and gone, and hopefully with it the hailstorms.  We at Word of Warning are trying not to be too foolish and are heralding the real spring with the resonant embrace of Verity Standen's HUG at the Whitworth (Thu 7 Apr).  Whilst it's currently a real hot ticket and fully booked, keep checking our bookings page - or you can catch it on Fri 8 + Sat 9 Apr at the Harris Museum, Preston courtesy of our partners, Derelict.

This weekend FutureEverything is in full swing; or, tonight, check out Short&Sweet's Fool (1 Apr) at Victoria Baths; or gird your loins and pad your buttocks for a marathon run of Quarantine's Quartet: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring (2+3 April) at the Old Granada Studios.

Next week, if you haven't manage to grab a Manchester HUG ticket, Sale Waterside has Chloe Dechery's A Duet Without You, also on Thu 7 April; or make your way up to Preston as Derelict springs into action (7-16 April), with a series of special one-offs starting with HUG on Fri 8 + Sat 9 April. 

The following week (w/c 11 April), Derelict continues with Glen Neath + David Rosenberg's Séance (11-16 April); and rounds off the week with the unique gastronomic experience of Zuppa Theatre's Pop Up Love Party on Fri 15 + Sat 16 April, and The Larks' Join Me on Sat 16 April. 

Over the hills in Sheffield, also check out the Wrought Festival of one-to-ones on 15-17 April.

In the meantime, there are one or two last minute opportunities for singers to get involved in HUG in Preston and Manchester - have a look here for the details (not an April fool!)

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016

Thu 7 Apr, 6-9pm. By donation | Thursday Lates at the Whitworth
Fri 8 Apr, 6-8pm; Sat 9 Apr, 1-5pm. Free | Harris Museum, Preston
HUG
Verity Standen
‘Song erupts around you... startling, moving and genuinely immersive.’ The Guardian           
[Limited capacity, see website]
               
Fri 22 + Sat 23 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2016
Twenty new works in a two day spin around new northern dance – energy bursting from every nook and cranny...
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, times + prices tbc | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Hidden stories from Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD
Unpredictable double bill from Top Joe + Lucy McCormick.
          
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.

The sun has set on our Spring, only to herald the shiny new golden dawn of Spring/Summer 2016... thanks whoever it was who unkindly said it was a reference to my own impending jubilee..!

Over the next couple of weeks things are pretty quiet for Easter - with the main point of focus being Quarantine's Quartet: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring at the Old Granada Studios. Bookable through both Contact and HOME, you can see Summer (22 Mar), Winter (24 Mar) and Spring (25 Mar) or a marathon run of the full Quartet (26 Mar, 2+3 April).  Elsewhere, Rob Auton's The Water Show (23 Mar) and Ed Aczel's The Random Flapping of a Butterfly’s Wings (31 Mar both at The Lowry); and Short&Sweet's Fool (1 Apr) at Victoria Baths, may be of interest.

Looking ahead, Word of Warning's Spring/Summer 2016 - kicks off on Thu 7 April at the Whitworth with Verity Standen's HUG. It 'sold-out' within minutes of bookings opening, but check the bookings page on Monday evening (21 Mar) as we hope to increase capacity a bit - or you can take a quick trip to see it at Derelict (Preston - see below).
Spring/Summer is a season of twists and turns, eggs, coffee and spicy moments… We have dance in the shape of Turn - and Igor and Moreno; film, with the premiere of Richard DeDomenici's Queer As Yolk: Redux starring Eggs Collective; an explosively unpredictable quartet for Works Ahead: Terri Donovan, Afreena Islam, Top Joe and Lucy McCormick; and the return of random sprees of urban eccentricity with Hazard.

In other previews, in Preston, Derelict springs up with another wave of work (7-16 April).  Our partners in Verity Standen's HUG, you can catch it there on Fri 8 + Sat 9 April.  They also welcome the extraordinary Canadian gastronomy of Zuppa Theatre's Pop Up Love Party on Fri 15 + Sat 16 April; plus The Larks' Join Me (Sat 16 April): and Glen Neath + David Rosenberg's Séance (11-16 April).

After that look-ahead, this Warning mail is going to take a week off for Easter and will resume 'normal service' on April fool's day.  I'm off to hop a branson-express to the big smoke to lend a hand with Afreena Islam's Daughters of the Curry Revolution at Camden People's Theatre's Sprint, tonight Fri 18 + tomorrow Sat 19 Mar - so if you're in the vicinity do join us!

In the meantime, look out for our shiny gold print hitting a leaflet rack near you... or if you fancy giving us some feedback on Spring 2016, please do fill out our online survey. 

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016

Thu 7 Apr, 6-9pm. By donation | Thursday Lates at the Whitworth
Fri 8 Apr, 6-8pm; Sat 9 Apr, 1-5pm. Free | Harris Museum, Preston
HUG
Verity Standen
‘Song erupts around you... startling, moving and genuinely immersive.’ The Guardian           
[Limited capacity, see website]
               
Fri 22 + Sat 23 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2016
Twenty new works in a two day spin around new northern dance – energy bursting from every nook and cranny...
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, times + prices tbc | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Hidden stories from Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD
Unpredictable double bill from Top Joe + Lucy McCormick.
          
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.