Saturday at BE Festival
T0176045500
This performance forms part of BE FESTIVAL: a fortnight-long feast of European culture. Our Saturday quadruple bill includes an interval like no other, where you can enjoy a drink in our backstage lounge and sit down to dinner in a pop-up dining room on the theatre's main stage!
Archive :: production:T0176045500, play:S1898283055, venue:V143
The Inverse of the Plot/Scratch Performance/Impressions d'Afrique/Show
The Inverse of the Plot - What is really going on when nothing is happening... what do we see? What do we want to see? Responding to BE FESTIVAL's unique takeover of The REP, a performance intervention that flips our understanding of how a theatre space works. The place where we watch is revealed as a factory of ideas, where the building blocks of action must first be imagined. Jaime Vallaure is an experimental artist working in fields of action-art, performance, video, and independent publishing. This new work, to happen sometime during Saturday evening, is being created for BE using local and European performers during the festival.
Scratch Performance - People from every corner of the world are proud to call Birmingham 'home'. From Kings Heath to Handsworth, the city's streets are alive with as many languages and accents as you might hear across a continent. BE Next, BE FESTIVAL's young company, sets out to celebrate our unique community by working with 14-19 year-olds from all over Birmingham, many of whom speak a language other than English. The company have been working with professional theatre-makers Manuel Bonillo (Vladmir Tzekov, Spain) and Won Kim (Pas de Dieux, France) to create a brand new show for the closing night.
Impressions d'Afrique - In his 1910 novel, Impressions d'Afrique, Raymond Roussel saw Africa as an unpredictable hybrid of multiple and arbitrary Western notions. This surreal landscape forms the backdrop to mk's crowded system of chain reactions and ballistic choreography, a discovery of new destinations and merry misunderstandings. For their week in Birmingham and show at The REP, the core ensemble are joined in rehearsal and onstage by local and festival performers. A leading research ensemble of the Italian dance scene, mk are led by Michele Di Stefano, whose work has featured at the National Dance Academy in Rome and the Biennale Danza, Venice.
Show - "I have a confession to make: I am a presenter, a dancer, a showman. I am my own time, my own things and my own heroes. I am my own alter ego. I am so many chances that I dissolve, but when you look at me here in this space, you make me feel possible and so so real..." The audience help a beleaguered performer attempt an impossible self-portrait. As a performer, director and choreographer, Antonio has presented work across Italy and Europe, collaborating with artists including Miguel Pereira, Raffaella Giordano and Giorgio Rossi. Studio
