Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

warnmcr: warming up...

With the advent of meteorological Spring and the unedifying spectacle of our leaders cosying up to the mendacious mandarin, we can only hope for global warming not just of the ecological variety...

This weekend Louise Orwin's Fame Hungry conitunes at HOME tonight, Fri 28 Feb.

Further afield Chester Storyhouse has Dreamtime Fellrunner on Fri 28 Feb and Barbara on Sat 1 Mar; and the LBT Huddersfield has Motionhouse's Hidden on Sat 1 Mar. Heart of Glass also presents the sold-out Resort at Bidston Observatory (28 Feb - 2 Mar).

Next week (w/c 3 Mar) In Mancunia, for something a bit different you could try Ivo Graham's Carousel at HOME on Thu 6 + Fri 7 Mar or Red Bastard at the Kings Arms on Sun 9 Mar.

In the wider region, Natalie Bellingham's Look After Your Knees is at the LBT, Huddersfield. Up Next Festival takes place at the Unity in Liverpool (6-8 Mar) - catching my eye was the Friday Night double bill and Decolonial Dogs' Siren Blues on Sat 8 Mar. Sat 8 Mar also sees the start in Liverpool of DaDaFest's DDFI40 (8-31 Mar) launching at the Cunard Building with Hand Ships Sail on Sat 8 Mar.

The following week (w/c 10 Mar) Things pick up a bit in Macunia. We at Word of Warning are back at Contact for Kellie Colbert's Dedicated To The One I Love on Thu 13 Mar.
Elsewhere, The Nordic Council's Happy Hour is at Lowry on Wed 12 Mar; and New Adelphi has Lip Service's Funny Stuff on Thu 13 Mar and Verve's Triple Bill on Sat 15 Mar.

In Liverpool, Reece Williams's This Kind of Black is at the Unity on Thu 13 Mar.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances - and click here if you want to apply to perform at the next Social Experiment.

Best

Tamsin

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Information for artists: habmcr.org

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2025

Thu 13 Mar, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE

Kellie Colbert

Fri 4 Apr, 7pm. PWYD | Contact

TURN 2025

Thu 22 May, from 6pm. FREE | Contact

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

A new gathering for Live Art and contemporary performance.

warnmcr: As Ever...

As Duchess Domestic rebrands her American Riviera Orchard to something more quotidien, her commander-in-chief continues to rewrite a different kind of history... In performance world, we seem to have a bit of a seesaw between Mancunia and the surrounding areas:

This weekend Mancunia is on top: HOME has Reece Williams's This Kind of Black and Aviva Studios have NDT's Figures in Extinction both until Sat 22 Feb. On Fri 21 Feb there's Emilyn Claid's Untitled at Lowry; Dance with Us at New Adelphi; Lip Service's Funny Stuff at The Edge (also on 22 + 27 Feb, all sold-out). Meanwhile Barbara is at the New Adelphi on Sat 22 Feb.

Next week (w/c 24 Feb) Mancunia is quiet: Barbara is at Bury Met on Wed 26 Feb; Louise Orwin's Fame Hungry is at HOME on Thu 27 + Fri 28 Feb.

Further afield is on the up with Reece Williams's This Kind of Black at Lancaster Arts on Wed 26 Feb, The Call Centre presents Jamal Gerald in Leeds on Thu 27 Feb. Chester Storyhouse has Dreamtime Fellrunner on Fri 28 Feb and Barbara on Sat 1 Mar; and the LBT Huddersfield has Motionhouse's Hidden on Sat 1 Mar. Heart of Glass also presents the sold-out Resort at Bidston Observatory (28 Feb - 2 Mar).

The following week (w/c 3 Mar) momentum remains with the wider region. In Mancunia, for something a bit different you could try Ivo Graham's Carousel at HOME on Thu 6 + Fri 7 Mar or Red Bastard at the Kings Arms on Sun 9 Mar.

Natalie Bellingham's Look After Your Knees is at the LBT, Huddersfield. Up Next Festival takes place at the Unity in Liverpool (6-8 Mar) - catching my eye was the Friday Night double bill and Decolonial Dogs' Siren Blues on Sat 8 Mar. Sat 8 Mar also sees the start in Liverpool of DaDaFest's DDFI40 (8-31 Mar).

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances - and click here if you want to apply to perform at the next Social Experiment.

Best

Tamsin

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Information for artists: habmcr.org

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2025

Thu 13 Mar, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE

Kellie Colbert

Fri 4 Apr, 7pm. PWYD | Contact

TURN 2025

Thu 22 May, from 6pm. FREE | Contact

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

A new gathering for Live Art and contemporary performance.

warnmcr: Hallmarked...

On this annual celebration of cardmaking, those of us with singular immunity can sit back and watch the guilt-driven scramble for all things heart-shaped...

This weekend there's not much to report in Mancunia, but further afield, Jenni Jackson's WrestleLadsWrestle is at Sheffield Theatres (until 15 Feb). Lancaster Arts has Samuel Rees + Gavriel Uboldi's Lessons on Revolution on Fri 14 Feb; while the Dukes has Daniel Bye's So Unfair on Sat 15 Feb.Chester Storyhouse has Mark Thomas's Gaffa Tapes on Sun 16 Feb.

Next week (w/c 17 Feb) Manchunia is back on form: with Reece Williams's This Kind of Black at HOME (18-22 Feb); Theatre Ad Infinitum's Last Rites is at Lowry on Tue 18 + Wed 19 Feb and NDT's Figures in Extinction at Aviva Studios (19-22 Feb). On Fri 21 Feb there's Emilyn Claid's Untitled at Lowry; Dance with Us at New Adelphi; Lip Service's Funny Stuff at The Edge (also on 22 + 27 Feb, all sold-out). Meanwhile Barbara is at the New Adelphi on Sat 22 Feb.

The following week (w/c 24 Feb) Barbara is at Bury Met on Wed 26 Feb; Louise Orwin's Fame Hungry is at HOME on Thu 27 + Fri 28 Feb.

Reece Williams's This Kind of Black is at Lancaster Arts on Wed 26 Feb, The Call Centre presents Jamal Gerald in Leeds on Thu 27 Feb. Chester Storyhouse has Dreamtime Fellrunner is at on Fri 28 Feb and Barbara on Sat 1 Mar, and the LBT Huddersfield has Motionhouse's Hidden on Sat 1 Mar. Heart of Glass also presents Resort at Bidston Observatory (28 Feb - 2 Mar).

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances - and click here if you want to apply to perform at the next Social Experiment.

Best

Tamsin

@WarnMcr: Facebook · Insta · X (Twitter) · YouTube

Information for artists: habmcr.org

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2025

Thu 13 Mar, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE

Kellie Colbert

Fri 4 Apr, 7pm. PWYD | Contact

TURN 2025

A night of new North West dance.

Thu 22 May, from 6pm. FREE | Contact

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

A new gathering for Live Art and contemporary performance.

warnmcr: social exhaustion...

Introvert that I am, following last nights adventures in bubbles and bingo, I am officially socialed-out for a good while - but if you want more you can join us for the next Social Experiment on Thu 22 May (either as an artist or as audience!)

This weekend PUSH 2025 has Jenny Gaskell's Sustainable Travel Agency (wip) (until 8 Feb); Hafsah Aneela Bashir's Four Dholis and a Divorce (wip) pm Fri 7 + Sat 8 Feb; and A-Hole & Propel x Dibby Theatre on Sat 8 Feb.
Tonight Fri 7 Feb Lowry has Sixth House's Lives and New Adelphi has Ocean Chillingworth's Monster Show.

Next week (w/c 10 Feb) is a bit quiet in Mancunia though Horizons Collective Showcase (featuring the Turn Prize-winning Louisanne Wong) is at Lowry on Wed 12 Feb, and there's Lip Service's Funny Stuff at The Met in Bury on Thu 13 Feb.

Elsewhere, the pace picks up: in Sheffield Carlos Pons Guerra's Mariposa is at the Drama Studio on Mon 10 Feb and Jenni Jackson's WrestleLadsWrestle is at Sheffield Theatres (12-15 Feb).
Lancaster Arts has Gandini Juggling's Theka on Wed 12 Feb and Samuel Rees + Gavriel Uboldi's Lessons on Revolution on Fri 14 Feb; while the Dukes has Daniel Bye's So Unfair on Sat 5 Feb.
Chester Storyhouse has Mark Thomas's Gaffa Tapes on Sun 16 Feb.

The following week (w/c 17 Feb) Manchester takes back the crown: first up is the return of Reece Williams's This Kind of Black at HOME (18-22 Feb); while Theatre Ad Infinitum's Last Rites is at Lowry on Tue 18 + Wed 19 Feb. Coming new is NDT's Figures in Extinction at Aviva Studios (19-22 Feb)
Then on Fri 21 Feb there's Emilyn Claid's Untitled at Lowry; Dance with Us at New Adelphi; Lip Service's Funny Stuff at The Edge (also on 22 + 27 Feb all sold-out). Meanwhile Barbara is at the New Adelphi on Sat 22 Feb.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances - and click here if you want to apply to perform at the next Social Experiment.

Best

Tamsin

@WarnMcr: Facebook · Insta · X (Twitter) · YouTube

Information for artists: habmcr.org

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2025

Thu 13 Mar, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE

Kellie Colbert

Fri 4 Apr, 7pm. PWYD | Contact

TURN 2025

A night of new North West dance.

Thu 22 May, from 6pm. FREE | Contact

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

A new gathering for Live Art and contemporary performance.

warnmcr: social experiment...

... not another foray into the Big Brother house, but our own attempt to bring people together to experiment and experience new work in hopefully convivial surroundings. But before that:

This weekend PUSH 2025 at HOME has Unhinged tonight Fri 31; Girl Gang's Millennial Pink on Fri 31 Jan + Sat 1 Feb and Mothers Who Make' s Motherkind on Sat 1 Feb.
At Contact, there's Magical Animals: A Tribute to Jackie Hagan on Sat 1 Feb.

Further afield, Sheffield Theatres have Jenni Jackson's Endurance on Fri 31 Jan + Sat 1 Mar.

Next week (w/c 3 Feb) is the very first Social Experiment on Thu 6 Feb at Contact. Completely free, the evening kicks off with durational pieces from Rachael Gooch and Harley Keasey, followed by short peformances from J. Edgar Staubsauger and Ray Bubbles plus a guest appearance by Malandra Jacks with a short excerpt from their award-winning Census. It's all hosted by our own Peader Kirk and there might also be a bit of interactive Live Art gaming.

PUSH 2025 has Jenny Gaskell's Sustainable Travel Agency (wip) (until 8 Feb); Hafsah Aneela Bashir's Four Dholis and a Divorce (wip) pm Fri 7 + Sat 8 Feb; and A-Hole & Propel x Dibby Theatre on Sat 8 Feb.
On Fri 7 Feb Lowry has Sixth House's Lives and New Adelphi has Ocean Chillingworth's Monster Show.

For something discursive there's a Bunker Talk by Stephen Scott-Bottoms x Andy Smith on Tue 4 Feb at the Salutation.

Further afield, the only thing I spotted was Ben Elton's Authentic Stupidity at Chester Storyhouse on Wed 5 Feb.

The following week (w/c 10 Feb) Horizons Collective Showcase is at Lowry on Wed 12 Feb, and there's Lip Service's Funny Stuff at The Met in Bury on Thu 13 Feb.

Elsewhere, in Sheffield Carlos Pons Guerra's Mariposa is at the Drama Studio on Mon 10 Feb and Jenni Jackson's WrestleLadsWrestle is at Sheffield Theatres (12-15 Feb).
Lancaster Arts has Gandini Juggling's Theka on Wed 12 Feb and Samuel Rees + Gavriel Uboldi's Lessons on Revolution on Fri 14 Feb; while the Dukes has Daniel Bye's So Unfair on Sat 5 Feb.
Chester Storyhouse has Mark Thomas's Gaffa Tapes on Sun 16 Feb.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

@WarnMcr: Facebook · Insta · X (Twitter) · YouTube

Information for artists: habmcr.org

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2025

Thu 6 Feb, from 6pm. FREE | Contact

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

A new gathering for Live Art and contemporary performance.

Thu 13 Mar, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE

Kellie Colbert

Fri 4 Apr, 7pm. PWYD | Contact

TURN 2025

A night of new North West dance.

warnmcr: an ill wind...

As the winds of change blow viciously across the Atlantic, closer to home the torch passes to PUSH Festival.

This weekend Éowyn-willing, you can catch the last show at Future Flares with Pinchbeck + Smith's A Seventh Man today Fri 24 Jan; before PUSH 2025 (24 Jan - 8 Feb) at HOME takes over with Afreena Islam-Wright's Lucky Tonight (Fri 24 + Sat 25 Jan).

In Blackpool there's a Scratch Night at the Old Electric tonight Fri 24 Jan.

Next week (w/c 27 Jan) PUSH 2025 at HOME has Switch_Mcr's Bad Science on Mon 27 + Tue 28 Jan, Maz Hedgehog's What Is Love To A Goddess (wip) on Tue 28 + Wed 29 Jan; Smug Roberts' Dementia Street on Wed 29 + Thu 30 Jan; Unhinged on Thu 30 + Fri 31; Girl Gang's Millennial Pink on Fri 31 Jan + Sat 1 Feb and Mothers Who Make' s Motherkind on Sat 1 Feb.
At Contact, there's Magical Animals: A Tribute to Jackie Hagan on Sat 1 Feb.

Further afield, Sheffield Theatres have Eleanor May Blackburn's Does My Fanny Look Big In This? on Wed 29 Jan and Jenni Jackson's Endurance on Fri 31 Jan + Sat 1 Mar. Unity, Liverpool's Scratch Night on Thu 30 Jan; and Porcelain Delaney's Toilet Paper Diaries is at the Old Electric in Blackpool on Fri 31 Jan - although the web page appears to have disappeared so it's anyone's guess!

The following week (w/c 3 Feb) for us is all about the very first Social Experiment on Thu 6 Feb at Contact. It does what it says on the pack - a complete experiment and a bit of a lucky dip in hopefully convivial social surroundings.

PUSH 2025 has Jenny Gaskell's Sustainable Travel Agency (wip) (until 8 Feb); Hafsah Aneela Bashir's Four Dholis and a Divorce (wip) pm Fri 7 + Sat 8 Feb; and A-Hole & Propel x Dibby Theatre on Sat 8 Feb.
On Fri 7 Feb Lowry has Sixth House's Lives and New Adelphi has Ocean Chillingworth's Monster Show. For something discursive there's a Bunker Talk by Stephen Scott-Bottoms x Andy Smith on Tue 4 Feb at the Salutation.

Further afield, the only thing I spotted was Ben Elton's Authentic Stupidity at Chester Storyhouse on Wed 5 Feb.

Meanwhile have a look at Word of Warning's current performance schedule and, for the artists among you, our call for proposals for Turn 2025 closes on Fri 31 Jan.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

@WarnMcr: Facebook · Insta · X (Twitter) · YouTube

Information for artists: habmcr.org

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2025

Thu 6 Feb, from 6pm. FREE | Contact

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

A new gathering for Live Art and contemporary performance.

Thu 13 Mar, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE

Kellie Colbert

Fri 4 Apr, 7pm. PWYD | Contact

TURN 2025

A night of new North West dance.

warnmcr: algorithmic antics...

Following the PM’s glowing praise for AI as the ultimate problem solver, I decided to let ChatGPT take a crack at writing this week’s edition. It started strong, but then went rogue—making up fake listings and jumbling dates like it was training for a comedy gig. As much as I love a good laugh, sending you all on an AI-fueled wild goose chase felt a step too far, even for my dark sense of humour... though it did, genuinely, write what you just read!

This weekend Lowry Botis Seva's Far From The Norm is at Lowry on Sat 18 Jan.

Next week (w/c 20 Jan) is truly hectic with Future Flares crossing into PUSH:
Future Flares (22-24 Jan) at Manchester School of Theatre has Mechanimal's Vigil, Gabriela Flarys + Andrea Maciel's Deluge, Dan Dubowitz's A Night Grit Walk on Wed 22 Jan; Neil Mackenzie, Mole Wetherell + Phoebe Woodbridge's Journey's End Working Title (wip), Lewys Holt's 30 Minute Set and Katy Baird's Get Off on Thur 23 Jan and Pinchbeck + Smith's A Seventh Man on Fri 24 Jan.
Meanwhile at HOME, PUSH 2025 (24 Jan - 8 Feb) kicks off with Afreena Islam-Wright's Lucky Tonight on Fri 24 + Sat 25 Jan.

Over in Liverpool you can catch Mark Thomas's Gaffa Tapes at the Playhouse on Thu 23 Jan and there's a Scratch Night at the Old Electric in Blackpool on Fri 24 Jan.

The following week (w/c 27 Jan)
PUSH at HOME has Switch_Mcr's Bad Science on Mon 27 + Tue 28 Jan, Maz Hedgehog's What Is Love To A Goddess (wip) on Tue 28 + Wed 29 Jan; Smug Roberts' Dementia Street on Wed 29 + Thu 30 Jan; Unhinged on Thu 30 + Fri 31; Girl Gang' Millennial Pink on Fri 31 Jan + Sat 1 Feb and Mothers Who Make' s Motherkind on Sat 1 Feb.
Elsewhere, at Contact, there's Magical Animals: A Tribute to Jackie Hagan on Sat 1 Feb.

Further afield, Sheffield Theatres have Eleanor May Blackburn's Does My Fanny Look Big In This? on Wed 29 Jan and Jenni Jackson's Endurance on Fri 31 Jan + Sat 1 Mar. Unity, Liverpool's Scratch Night on Thu 30 Jan; and Porcelain Delaney's Toilet Paper Diaries is at the Old Electric in Blackpool on Fri 31 Jan.

Meanwhile have a look at Word of Warning's current performance schedule and, for the artists among you, our call for proposals for Turn 2025 is open til Fri 31 Jan and Social Experiment on Feb 6 is open until Fri 23 Jan.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

@WarnMcr: Facebook · Insta · X (Twitter) · YouTube

Information for artists: habmcr.org

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2025

Thu 6 Feb, from 6pm. FREE | Contact

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

A new gathering for Live Art and contemporary performance.

Thu 13 Mar, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE

Kellie Colbert

Fri 4 Apr, 7pm. PWYD | Contact

TURN 2025

A night of new North West dance.

warnmcr: defrost slowly...

As we wake up to another crystalline morning, the performance world seems to be slowly thawing out from its panto permafrost..

Next week (w/c 13 Jan) Lowry gets the ball rolling with Tmesis Theatre's Sealskin on Thu 16 Jan and Botis Seva's Far From The Norm on Sat 18 Jan.

The following week (w/c 20 Jan) things really start in earnest:
Future Flares at Manchester School of Theatre (22-24 Jan) has Mechanimal's Vigil, Gabriela Flarys + Andrea Maciel's Deluge, Dan Dubowitz's A Night Grit Walk, Neil Mackenzie, Mole Wetherell + Phoebe Woodbridge's Journey's End Working Title (wip), Lewys Holt's 30 Minute Set, Katy Baird's Get Off, Brigitte Jurack's Vermisserin and Pinchbeck + Smith's A Seventh Man

Meanwhile, at HOME PUSH 2025 (24 Jan - 8 Feb) kicks off with Afreena Islam-Wright's Lucky Tonight on Fri 24 + Sat 25 Jan.

Over in Liverpool you can catch Mark Thomas's Gaffa Tapes at the Playhouse on Thu 23 Jan.

Meanwhile have a look at Word of Warning's current performance schedule and, for the artists among you, our call for proposals for Turn 2025 and Social Experiment are still open.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

@WarnMcr: Facebook · Insta · X (Twitter) · YouTube

Information for artists: habmcr.org

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2025

Thu 6 Feb, from 6pm. FREE | Contact

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

A new gathering for Live Art and contemporary performance.

Thu 13 Mar, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE

Kellie Colbert

Fri 4 Apr, 7pm. PWYD | Contact

TURN 2025

A night of new North West dance.

warnmcr: end of days...

As the days grow dark, in this pre-emptive run-up to the 'season of goodwill', church and state seem to be unraveling wildly on either side of the pond, meanwhile closer to home, this weekend, our slow creep to doomsday is foretold in (the seriously long) Laurie Anderson's Ark: United States V at Aviva Studios until 24 Nov.
Possibly more elevatinlgy, Uplift is at Company Chameleon Studios tonight, Fri 15 Nov.

In Liverpool, Rowena Gander's Woman | Women is at The Unity in Liverpool on Fri 15 Nov; while in Leeds, Compass has Alisa Oleva's Sounds Like Home on Sat 16 + Sun 17 Nov.

For the remains of November: Wendy Houstoun's WATCH IT! returns to Salford, to the New Adelphi on Mon 18 Nov; while at Aviva Studios, IMpact's Žena: Women in Movement is on Tue 19 Nov. Sneaking into December, if you're feeling discursive, Melanie Wilson's Bunker Talk is at the Salutation on Tue 3 Dec; while Aviva Studios has The Untold Orchestra's Movement on Fri 6 Dec and Blue Now on Sun 8 Dec.

Beyond Mancunia, on Tue 19 Nov SK Shlomo's Breathe is at the LBT, Huddersfield; Van Huynh Company's Exquisite Noise is at Lancaster Arts; and PCK Dance's IMAGO is at Sheffield Drama Studio. On Thu 21 Nov Levantes Dance Theatre's The Band is at The Atkinson in Southport; and there's a Scratch Night at The Unity, Liverpool; while on Sat 23 Nov Tmesis Theatre's Sealskin is at Sheffield Drama Studio.
Just into December, there's Tenderfoot Theatre's OutHaus at the Arts Centre, Edgehill University on Mon 2 Dec.

Leeds is busy with The Paper Birds' Feel Me at Leeds Playhouse on Wed 20 + Thu 21 Nov; and No Dress Code Scratch at Yorkshire Dance, Leeds on Fri 22 Nov;
Meanwhile, Compass has SLAP Collective's Brightside (19-21 + 26-28 Nov), and Alt+R (21-23 + 28-30 Nov); Ellie Harrison/Polite Rebellion's Loose Ends (22-24 + 28-30 Nov), Melanie Whitehead-Smith's Here Marks The Spot (25-28 N0v) and Amy Lawrence's Sharing Platter on Sat 30 Nov.

That takes us pretty much to the end of the performance season and the onslaught of the dreaded xmas show - so time for this scrooge to take a break. Unless I spot something truly exciting, I'll be back in mid January in time for Future Flares (21-24 Jan) and PUSH 2025 (24 Jan - 8 Feb).

In the meantime, for dancemakers out there, we'll be launching the call for Turn 2025 in the last week of November.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

@WarnMcr: Facebook · Insta · X (Twitter) · YouTube

Information for artists: habmcr.org

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warnmcr: conviction politics...

With the world still reeling from a groundhog night in Trumpton, where the 'leader of the free world' is a convicted felon and possibly orange is the new black; suddenly, the UK seems a much saner place and it's hard not to read the title of every current performance as some form of commentary:

This weekend, Red Ladder's Sanctuary is at The Edge on Fri 7 + Sat 9 Nov.

Further afield, Seke Chimutengwende's Long Solo 3 is at Wainsgate Dances, Hebden Bridge on Fri 8 Nov and Hofesh Schecter's From England With Love is at the Riley Theatre, Leeds on Sat 9 Nov.

Next week (w/c 11 Nov) Laurie Anderson's Ark: United States V lands at Aviva Studios (12-24 Nov). There are also two dance platforms: Scratch Nights x Dance is at LOWRY on Wed 13 Nov; and Uplift is at Company Chameleon Studios on Fri 15 Nov.

In Huddersfield at the LBT, National Dance Company Wales' Frontiers is on Tue 12 Nov. Emily Woof's Blizzard is at Lancaster Arts on Wed 13 Nov; and Rowena Gander's Woman | Women is at The Unity in Liverpool on Fri 15 Nov.
Compass in Leeds has Alisa Oleva's Sounds Like Home on Sat 16 + Sun 17 Nov.

The following week (w/c 18 Nov) Wendy Houstoun's WATCH IT! returns to Salford, to the New Adelphi on Mon 18 Nov; while at Aviva Studios, IMpact's Žena: Women in Movement is on Tue 19 Nov - alongside the continuing Ark.

On Tue 19 Nov SK Shlomo's Breathe is at the LBT, Huddersfield; Van Huynh Company's Exquisite Noise is at Lancaster Arts; and PCK Dance's IMAGO is at Sheffield Drama Studio
On Thu 21 Nov Levantes Dance Theatre's The Band is at The Atkinson in Southport; and there's a Scratch Night at The Unity, Liverpool; while on Sat 23 Nov Tmesis Theatre's Sealskin is at Sheffield Drama Studio.

Leeds is busy with The Paper Birds' Feel Me at Leeds Playhouse on Wed 20 + Thu 21 Nov; and No Dress Code Scratch at Yorkshire Dance, Leeds on Fri 22 Nov. Meanwhile, Compass has SLAP Collective's Brightside (19-21 + 26-28 Nov), and Alt+R (21-23 + 28-30 Nov); Ellie Harrison/Polite Rebellion's Loose Ends (22-24 + 28-30 Nov), Melanie Whitehead-Smith's Here Marks The Spot (25-28 N0v) and Amy Lawrence's Sharing Platter on Sat 30 Nov.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

@WarnMcr: Facebook · Insta · X (Twitter) · YouTube

Information for artists: habmcr.org