FUTURA Glitch - T01796792424Wild Card returns with a new generation of artists invited to curate their own night. This summer, we welcome Livia Rita with her Wild Card, FUTURA Glitch. Experience the collaboration of musicians, designers, dancers, writers, thinkers, and activists. Livia creates her own mythology, populating the Lilian Baylis Studio with unearthly creatures that build bridges between worlds. There will be ritualistic spells cast to help us heal and grow our superpowers to shift our fears and desires. Through this soft rave in utopia, you will leave with a fresh perspective having briefly escaped our increasingly precarious reality.Choreographer Livia Rita. | |
| 12 May 22 to 13 May 22 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L0834348205 |
Stefam Jovanovic - T540364566Stefan Jovanovic presents an evening of rituals and dances about witches, fools, and genders. For this ceremony, he is joined by a coven of performers, multi-media artists, architects, masks, metal horses, and healers. Stefan Jovanovic is a Serbo-Italian dance-theatre maker and architect by training, based in London. | |
| 6 Jun 19 to 7 Jun 19 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L0735033975 |
Keira Martin - T01616829732A dynamic evening of live music, dance and spoken word drawing on Irish, African and Jamaican influences which asks: 'who owns culture?' | |
| 9 May 19 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L0490497497 |
Humanhood - T0601742787Humanhood's universe lands with a specially curated evening which is part of our popular Wild Card series. Bringing fresh perspectives from a new generation of dance-makers, Wild Card hands over the curation of the Lilian Baylis Studio to artists, this time Rudi Cole and J?lia Robert Par?s, the company's founders. Humanhood is based in Birmingham and has a rapidly growing following. Their work is rooted in a physics and astrophysics as well as in their personal research into Eastern mysticism. They are fascinated by the connections that lie between these seemingly different fields and how these shape our knowledge of ourselves. Their evening is a sensorial invitation, creating visual and sonic experiences taking you to a place beyond the senses. Alongside special guest artists, this is a chance to see this young company's latest works, including ZERO. | |
| 24 May 18 to 25 May 18 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L896461996 |
Spoken Movement - T1533115674The Wild Card series returns to the Lilian Baylis Studio with yet more fresh voices from a new generation of dance-makers curating their own night. This Spring Kwame Asafo-Adjei, founder and artistic director of Spoken Movement tackles the concept of identity within Black culture and how it influences and exists across space and time. Together with special guest artists rooted in hip hop, Spoken Movement's evening will open a dialogue on cultural hierarchy, challenging society's perspectives and how this affects and shapes culture today. In an immersive evening, experience a historical relapse and the emergence of worlds where questions, domestics, laughter and religion collide. | |
| 12 Apr 18 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L01650372067 |
Neon Dance - T612856414As part the ever popular Wild Card series of artists curated evenings, this spring we delve in the world of Adrienne Hart's up-and-coming company Neon Dance, in an evening of live music, design and dance, part of the international Piano Day conceived by the acclaimed Berlin producer and musician Nils Frahm. Collaboration is at the heart of every Neon Dance production with Hart inviting artists from different disciplines to come together on the same level playing field. For Wild Card, Neon Dance presents excerpts of Empathy, choreographed by Hart in conversation with Professor Simon Baron-Cohen (Zero Degrees of Empathy), and developed with an award-winning, internationally renowned team. Artists, collaborators and special guests will feed into a rich evening of up close performances and live music encounters, with a special place given to the piano | |
| 22 Mar 18 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L282397425 |
Ella Mesma - Guerreras - T1194303696At the crossroads of hip hop, latin and theatre, the multi-faceted dancer and choreographer Ella Mesma curates Guerreras ('Female warriors' in Spanish), an evening focusing on the female perspective and the tempestuous history of the latin dance style, rumba. Guest artists will perform alongside extracts from Mesma's latest production Ladylike. | |
| 8 Jun 17 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L2105318507 |
Dan Daw - T879553719Dance maker and performer Dan Daw is interested in collaboration and the potential for dance to transcend expectations. Dan's approach supports that both ?success' and ?failure' are equally fascinating. Alongside other artists, Dan performs the UK premiere of ON ONE CONDITION, a stripped back, affecting solo by Graham Adey, looking at struggle, belonging, comfort, need and home. | |
| 30 Mar 17 to 31 Mar 17 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L0804006066 |
Hagit Yakira - T779705513UK Premiere. Hagit Yakira is an Israeli choreographer based in London, whose work is attracting growing acclaim for her distinctive physical and emotional intensity. Her approach emerges from her fascination with stories, psychological experiences and emotions. In this Wild Card evening, Yakira invites audiences to experience her take on storytelling for a night of dance and choreography, inspired by her interpretations of femininity and her own life experiences. Alongside Yakira's work there will be three specialists: a dance artist, a psychotherapist and a writer, who will reflect on and react to Yakira's new work Free Falling, looking at the conceptualisation of emotions in art. | |
| 27 Oct 16 to 28 Oct 16 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L01474355128 |
dotdotdot dance - T0418414551UK Premiere. Our second in the Wild Card series this season, where a new generation of dance makers curate the evening. dotdotdot dance is a new company of three young British dancers who have fallen in love with flamenco. Magdalena Mannion, Yinka Esi Graves and Noem? Luz all trained in different dance styles before adopting this striking art form native to southern Spain and performing in prestigious venues. The company makes work that explores who we are, acknowledging the intertwining of cultures that shape our lives. In this Wild Card, they explore the emblematic figure of the solo flamenco dancer, asking whether an entire life's journey can be captured by a dance. Expect a personal evening of stripped-down flamenco with surprises along the way. | |
| 26 May 16 to 27 May 16 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L0868515384 |
The Palest Light - T1076359379This edition takes a different shape by inviting The Palest Light, an existing night of performance curated by choreographer Pepa Ubera. Originally from Spain, Ubera has made London her home. She has been curating regular nights of performance and opportunities for dancers, notably in east London's artist-run venue TripSpace, which she helped launch. This evening is a get together, a chance to see work by artists whose idea of choreography expands to different mediums and experiences, including the thought-provoking French choreographer Alice Chauchat. The Palest Light wants to flex your mind, trigger images and take you into a space where dance is more than you know. | |
| 3 Mar 16 to 4 Mar 16 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L0439142054 |
Leila McMillan - T49636675Leila McMillan is a Californian-born London-based choreographer, teacher and performer (Crystal Pite, Wendy Houstoun). Her adventurous spirit has taken her around the world, leading her to discover the work of Venezuelan dance artist David Zambrano, the creator of the Flying Low dance technique which is now widely used by international companies such as Ultima Vez and Rosas. Flying Low focuses on the dancers' relationship with the floor but also uses speed with charged movement, making it compelling to watch. McMillan leads its development in the UK as a teacher and choreographer. This Wild Card is a chance to see new works by UK and international artists working with Flying Low. This evening will feature, amongst other pieces, an extract from her new work Family Portrait, a constellation of family members dealing with love, humour, dysfunction and harmony. | |
| 3 Dec 15 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L551171466 |
Botis Seva - T2084782914The increasingly popular Wild Card series returns with more specially curated evenings from a new generation of dance makers bringing fresh perspectives to the stage. Hip hop dancer and choreographer Botis Seva is an artist with something to say. He has made performance pieces across theatre, film and local community work with his company Far From The Norm since 2010. He is concerned with tackling social and political issues often provoking a strong audience responce. Using different physical foundations to create hip hop theatre with a contemporary sensibility, he has performed at Breakin' Convention and other international showcases. For his Wild Card, Seva curates a rebellious evening that reveals hip hop theatre in a new light, bringing an immersive experience that invites the audience to question the commercialised products we have become entrenched in. Expect rude awakenings and uncensored delivery from his company Far From The Norm and special guests. | |
| 24 Sep 15 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L1018819045 |
Katye Coe: Preparation - T564656691Wild Card returns with more specially curated evenings from a new generation of dance makers, bringing fresh perspectives to the stage. For each Wild Card, an up-and-coming artist is given the opportunity to present their own work alongside works by artists they admire. Katye is a dance artist practising as a performer with Station House Opera and Florence Peake, curator at Decoda, maker and teacher at Coventry University. One of her latest works, the running intervention (to) Constantly Vent was recently presented at the Hayward Gallery. Her practice reaches across forms and communities, informed by the belief that thinking happens differently when it is located in dancing or moving. Improvisation is a core aspect of her work, as is collaboration. This evening is curated by Katye in conversation with Charlie Morrissey, dance artist and collaborator (Steve Paxton, Siobhan Davies). Katye has anchored this evening through key questions in their evolving duet, where we are not. The performers' visceral presence makes visible the live-ness of decision making. Sound artist Graeme Miller and philosopher Alva Noe will also contribute works igniting the idea of 'preparation'. | |
| 24 Apr 15 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L01109679046 |
Casson & Friends - T02029926840Wild Card returns with more specially curated evenings from a new generation of dance makers, bringing fresh perspectives to the stage. For each Wild Card, an up-and-coming artist is given the opportunity to present their own work, alongside performances by artists they admire. Tim Casson is a London-based performer and choreographer with an interest in collaboration, interactivity and technology. Best known for his innovative record-breaking dance project The Dance WE Made, Tim invites you to join him and his friends for a night of work created through unexpected and unique collaborations - between dancers, artists and perhaps even you! The evening includes the London premiere of Casson's solo work Fiend; a magical reimagining of Nijinsky's iconic Afternoon of a Faun, created in collaboration with computer programmer Tom Butterworth, which sees the dancer multiplied and seeking a connection in his virtual world. Tim Casson invites audiences to join performers for an evening to explore the wonderful things that can happen when people work together. Running time: 2hrs 5mins (including one 30min interval) | |
| 18 Mar 15 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L1476754115 |
Neil Callaghan: Transforming Matter - T01341039610Neil Callaghan makes work between dance and theatre. Since 2002 he has been creating performances both as a solo artist and in collaborations, including the Sadler's Wells commission Electric Hotel by David Rosenberg and Frauke Requardt. His programme Transforming Matter features two international artists at the cutting edge of dance - Mette Ingvartsen and Jeremy Wade - who rarely show work in the UK. He also performs an extract of his latest duet with long-time collaborator Simone Kenyon. These three pieces explore how we engage with the world and each other. In a theatre stripped of seating, Transforming Matter is an intimate triple bill which aims to draw attention to the different ways in which an audience member is an active participant in co-creating a dance. This is an invitation to take part in an evening of shared experiences and multiple transformations. Running time: 2hrs 45mins (including one 20min interval). | |
| 7 Nov 14 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L0610005959 |
Seeta Patel: Something Then Something Now - T706252277UK Premiere. Wild Card returns with more specially curated evenings from a new generation of dance makers, bringing fresh perspectives to the stage. For each Wild Card, an up-and-coming artist is given the opportunity to present work that excites them alongside their own. UK born and raised dance artist Seeta Patel has been championing the Indian classical dance style of bharatanatyam for many years. She has done so alongside forging a distinctive career in contemporary dance, performing with companies including DV8 Physical Theatre, and presenting work at Southbank Centre. Under the guidance of her teacher, the remarkable dancer Mavin Khoo, she has become a growing voice for the form. Something Then, Something Now is an intimate evening of dance and music from South India, featuring an orchestra of Carnatic musicians. After a solo work by Patel, she offers a rare opportunity to see seasoned dancer and musician Pushkala Gopal in an up-close presentation of song and abhinaya (the expressional aspect of bharatanatyam). This evening is a chance to witness the inherent evolution of this most expressive dance form and see it grow into the future. | |
| 26 Sep 14 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L01656401340 |
Eva Recacha - T1476380815Originally from Spain, Eva Recacha has established herself in the UK as an up and coming artist with a distinctive voice, having twice been a Place Prize finalist. She has been commissioned work by EDge, LCDS, DanceXchange, Bloomberg SPACE and the Opera Estate Festival in Veneto. | |
| 27 Mar 14 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L01736859258 |
Cindy Claes - T43090328Originally from Belgium, Cindy Claes (Association of Dance of the African Diaspora Trailblazer 2013-2014) creates social and political work using hip hop, dancehall and krumping. A dancer, actress, playwright and choreographer, her work has been showcased in the UK, and internationally, notably at the San Francisco Hiphop Dancefest. She is currently researching setting up a dance exchange between Jamaica and the UK. | |
| 13 Feb 14 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L0181926573 |
Laura Dajao - Take a Closer Look - T1234710222Dancer, aspiring choreographer and founder of DaJance Arts Collective Laura Dajao presents Take A Closer Look, the sixth and final Wild Card of 2013. Laura's evening focuses on the themes of her condition - Multiple Sclerosis - taking a closer look at the intricate issues around MS and the artist's interpretation of them. Working collaboratively with a range of different artists, Laura's evening features new and existing work, including a re-interpretation of her own dance piece Marionette. Take a Closer Look encourages the audience to take their own journey through spaces that have been transformed by Laura, including an interactive installation in the Kahn Lecture Theatre that takes place throughout the evening. Running time: 1hr 10mins (including one 20min interval) | |
| 27 Nov 13 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L1967222561 |
Anand Bhatt - T01209939845Leicester based producer Anand Bhatt presents Cooperire, a mixed bill of work that will demonstrate his enthusiasm for different genres of dance whilst also showcasing his love of good movement, from Michael Jackson to classical kathak. The evening features the premieres of work by two new choreographers, contemporary dancer Karima El Amrani and Australian dancer and choreographer Lewis Major, both with specially commissioned scores by Joel Harries, as well as work choreographed by Marso Riviere. There will also be performances in the foyer and cafe - transformed for the evening into a kathak mehfil - and other special events created for the night, including spoken word hip hop by John Berkavitch, that will take place after the show. Running time: 1hr 20mins (including one 20min interval) | |
| 30 Oct 13 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L01186684766 |
Vicki Igbokwe - T1069818452Creative Director and choreographer Vicki Igbokwe (Uchenna Dance) is the fourth artist to programme work in the Wild Card series of 2013. In Act II, Igbokwe presents Between the Lines, a mixed bill of work that will premiere her latest creation Our Mighty Groove, an interactive work that allows the audience to be up close and personal with the performers, recreating a club in the theatre. In Act I, dance artists Alesandra Seutin and Ella Mesma each perform their own solo work. Before the show begins in the Lilian Baylis Studio, Cindy Claes will perform her trio in the Kahn Lecture Theatre, from 7pm. | |
| 20 Sep 13 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L959642239 |
Ivan Blackstock - T064875988Dancer/choreographer Ivan Blackstock will present the third in the series of Wild Card events. He is well known on the hip hop scene as the Artistic Director of BirdGang Dance Company and will present an evening of mixed bills including one of his own works, Reverie. Accompanying Blackstock's Lilian Baylis Studio programme is a ten minute long work called The Awakening, where a dream world of dust and ashes is created in the Kahn Lecture Theatre. There will also be live music in the theatre bar. Running time: 2hrs 25mins (including one 20min interval) | |
| 14 Mar 13 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L0294606665 |
Dan Canham - T01705114186Bristol-based Dan Canham has performed with companies including DV8 Physical Theatre and Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, and is the second artist to programme work in the Wild Card series. He presents his eloquent work, 30 Cecil Street, an award-winning solo about a ruined theatre in Ireland, described by Lyn Gardner as "...exquisitely crafted... spine-tingling dance-theatre." Joining Canham is the captivating and insightful performance artist Augusto Corrieri, here bringing his lecture In Place of a Show. To complete the bill is Pig Dyke Molly, a riotous group of 18 Molly dancers from Cambridgeshire, who will perform in the main theatre foyer before and after the show in the Lilian Baylis Studio. Running time: 2hrs 25mins (including 30 mins pre-performance in the foyer and a 20min interval) | |
| 12 Feb 13 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L984324777 |
Bellyflop - T1267075974The first in the series is BELLYFLOP, a London-based online magazine run by eight dance artists whose writing activity runs parallel to their contemporary dance and performance practices. Their programme, The BELLY of the Beast, features performances from these contributors alongside guest artists. Curated collectively, The BELLY of the Beast will comprise eight works over two nights - a different triple-bill on stage each night followed by a late show in the bar. There will be conversation, mermaids, moustaches, improvisation and there will be dance. Running time: Thu - 2hrs 5mins (inclu. one 20min interval | |
| 17 Jan 13 to 18 Jan 13 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L550132632 |
