LONDON INTERNATIONAL
MIME FESTIVAL 2004

Directors: Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan

35 Little Russell Street, London WC1A 2HH
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7637 5661
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7323 1151
e-mail: mimefest@easynet.co.uk

The London International Mime Festival was founded in 1977 and has become one of the world's most influential arts festivals. In 2003 some 24,000 people attended, averaging more than 85% capacity over all events. During the festival period up to 1,000 people a day were using this website.

The 2004 Festival     10 - 25 January
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THE SHOWS

SHOWS FOR FAMILIES: CanStage, Chipolatas, Compagnie 111, Pep Bou
SHOWS WITH CIRCUS SKILLS: Chipolatas, Compagnie 111, Fabrik, Gandini Juggling
SHOWS WITH PUPPETRY/ANIMATION: Black Hole, Blind Summit, Compagnie 111, Joan Baixas, Pep Bou, Theatre 2.0
SHOWS FOR PEOPLE WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT: CanStage , Joan Baixas (signed perf Sun 18), Pep Bou, Black Hole, Compagnie 111, Paolo Nani + Kristjan Ingimarsson, Told by an Idiot (signed perf Sun 25)
SHOWS FOR AGES 15+: A2 , Akhe, Told by an Idiot
Meet the artists after the show: Fabrik, A2, Akhe, Joan Baixas, Compagnie 111, Told by an Idiot

Fabrik Germany
Pandora 88
Purcell Room
Sat 10 – Mon 12 Jan Sat, Mon 8pm, Sun 6pm
After show discussion: Sun 11 Jan
£12.50 (£9 concs)
booking details

Exploiting limitations of space, Pandora 88 is a lyrical performance by Fabrik that blurs division between dance and theatre. A 'box' barely the size of a small lift encapsulates the shared experiences and life paths of the two performers. It is their playground, home, prison, their source of light, sound and memories.
Inspired by Brian Keenan's Beirut hostage memoirs, An Evil Cradling, and Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Wolfgang Hoffmann and Sven Till have created one of the recent Edinburgh Fringe's most talked about shows, winning five star reviews and Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Angel and Total Theatre awards. The director is Britain's Andrew Dawson, co-creator of long-running stage hits, Thunderbirds FAB and Space Panorama.
'Not to be missed'.
The Times
'Extraordinarily inventive dance theatre...one of the most captivating shows in Edinburgh. Shattering.'
The Guardian
'Simply unforgettable.'
The Scotsman

Runs approx 70 mins without interval

Presented in association with SBC Supported by the Goethe-Institut
www.fabrikpotsdam.de

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A2 UK
'miss, did it hurt when you fell down from heaven?'
ICA
Mon 12 - Wed 14 Jan 8pm   After show discussion: Tue 13 Jan
£12 (£9 concs + ICA members inc day membership)
booking details

Tell me you love me
Why?
I want to hear how it sounds
What sort of sound are you
looking for?
It doesn’t really matter as
long as it sounds real….
An emotionally provocative investigation about human relationships and the games we play, the personalities we are conditioned to hide and those we see fit to reveal.
From the sublime to the ridiculous, A2 (Alit Kreiz & Anton Mirto) expose the personal behaviour patterns of two women, who, in order to find solutions for being together, must choose between living their lives out of fantasy or reality.
A2 conjure a modern fairy tale that never ends, but rather, stops in interesting places, creating a series of sensual and poetic images to linger in the memory. A2’s recent projects include do you want this once again? (LIMF 2003) and all those people I have met (Hoxton Hall 2003). Their next project is a residency at Parc de la Villette, Paris.
‘Their special gift appears to be an ability to lure us into their world and hold us there charmed, touched and rapt.’ Dance Europe
‘The startlingly talented A2 company are crafting compelling work that seduces
and illuminates in equal measure.’ The Stage

Runs approx 60 mins without interval

Arts Council Lottery funded

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Patter UK
The Experts
Scratch Performance @ BAC
Tue 13 - Thur 15 Jan 8pm   
£4.75 (£3.50 concs)
booking details

It’s 24hrs since this mess started and the hottest day in living memory. The Experts have been summoned.
There’s evidence to weigh, dust to be sifted, prints lifted. But it’s fragile, willfully unstable. Clues are evaporating in the nerve-crackling heat and a thunderstorm is about to break. Time check: 16:00 hours.
In one hour the rain will come and wash everything away. The clock is ticking…
Combining a vivid soundscape with an irrepressible physicality, The Experts is a darkly humorous visual poem exploring crime scene analysis and forensic truth.
‘an utter delight from start to finish.’
The Herald on Patter’s debut show: patter… a playful meditation on magic

BAC Supported Artists 2003 Commissioned by BAC

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Akhe Russia
White Cabin
Purcell Room
Wed 14 - Sun 18 Jan Wed - Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm
After show discussion: Thur 15 Jan
£12.50 (£9 concs)
booking details

Cult icons in Moscow and St. Petersburg's independent arts scenes, the work of Russia's Akhe group owes as much to the visual arts and cinema as to any kind of theatre. Like all its shows, the surreal and darkly comic White Cabin is filled with countless absurd, inspired, bizarre and often touching 'events'.
The result is dream theatre of chaos, a crazy variety show of fantastic images and endlessly changing stage pictures. Winner of Russia's Golden Mask Award and now in demand at festivals all over Europe, Akhe has also collaborated on projects with well-known fellow Russian artists, Slava Polunin and Derevo.
'There is theatrical magic in this beguiling display of visual imaginationÕ. The Independent
'Dizzying, dark and immensely satisfying'. The Guardian
'Hysterically funny and increasingly disquieting'. Sunday Herald

Runs approx 70 mins without interval

Presented in association with SBC

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Joan Baixas SPAIN
Dopamine Suite
ICA
Thur 15 - Sun 18 Jan 8pm   After show discussion: Fri 16 Jan
Sign-language interpreted performance: Sun 18 Jan 8pm
£12 (£9 concs + ICA members inc day membership)
booking details

In a spell-binding experience for eyes and ears, Catalan artist Joan Baixas creates paintings live on stage.
For almost twenty years, from New York's Lincoln Center to the Sydney Opera House, Baixas toured the world with his ground-breaking mime and puppet ensemble, Theatre La Claca, for which he devised, directed and appeared in extraordinary performances produced in collaboration with acclaimed painters, most famously his friend, Joan Miro. He has directed and designed theatre projects with Els Comediants and Circus Oz, events for cinema, TV and the fashion world and was director of Barcelona's International Visual Theatre and Puppetry Festival. His last show Terra Prenyada was seen at Brighton's Visions Festival.
In this sensual new work Joan Baixas explores events, issues and emotions through colour, image, energy and projection. Using a lit backdrop he paints a journey through cycles of life and death, love and loss. Live deejay music provides the sound texture.

Runs approx 60 mins without interval

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Black Hole UK
Forget Me Not
The Albany
Thur 15 - Sun 18, Wed 21 - Sun 25 Jan 8pm (7pm Sundays)  continues to 30 Jan
£10 (£6 concs)
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Paka’s new show is a spectacular story of one man and his horse. And not just any horse – Paka whistles up his life-sized mechanical steed and escapes on an adventure into his past. An extraordinary journey unfolds – deserts are crossed, storms endured and seas swum. A magical equestrian act appears before your eyes, a life-changing accident rears its head and our grubby hero confronts the dragon of his worst nightmare. Forget Me Not features London’s cutting-edge clown in a show that boasts at least forty hands (and we’re not talking horse height). Directed by Andy Lavender, an array of international artists harness their talents to create a theatrical event filled with puppetry, pyrotechnics, robotics, music and video.
Created by the team that produced the sensational The Singularity (LIMF 1998), this is horseplay with a difference- a stunning ride and a tender treat.
'Paka's act is singularly funny.' Critics choice, Time Out. The Singularity
'Firmly in the tradition of futuristic performance artistry... uniformly stunning: the aesthetic eccentric and inspiring.' Beware the Cat Magazine. The Singularity

Runs approx 70 mins without interval

Presented with the support of Arts Council England, Lewisham Council, Central School of Speech and Drama and The Circus Space.
Co-production: Art of Regeneration - A project of The National Theatre, The Albany and London International Mime Festival

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Blind Summit UK
Martin's Wedding
Scratch Performance @ BAC
Fri 16 - Sun 18 Jan Fri-Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm  
£4.75 (£3.50 concs)
booking details

Fashion photographer puppet Martin wakes on his wedding morning with a MASSIVE hangover. Full of regret, he throws himself out of a window. He hits the ground, bangs his head and when he comes round he can't remember anything… The story of a small man, pursued by three women, trying to get to the altar to marry a woman he can’t remember…
Following their success with Pirate Puppetry in BAC’s Octoberfest last year, and hot from touring The Spaceman, Blind Summit apply their unique actor-puppeteer style to scratch a new show about London, fashion and wedding nerves.
‘A remarkable evening… thrillingly unconventional.’
Time Out on Mr China’s Son
‘Hugely inventive theatre.’ Metro on The Spaceman

BAC Supported Artists 2003

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Compagnie 111 France
Plan B
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Fri 16- Sun 18 Jan Fri - Sat 7.45pm, Sun 4pm
£10/£13/£16 (Sun only under 16s £6.50/£8)
booking details

Following its success with IJK at last year's Festival, (think of it as Stomp with balls or Mondrian on acid Sunday Times) Compagnie 111 returns with its spectacular new show - a thrilling mix of circus, dance, video, 'sonic' white-ball juggling and optical illusion. Performed on a cunning, tilting set, in itself a source of tricks and transformations, Plan B also juggles with perspective and the laws of gravity. From the opening magic of Aurelien Bory's haunting guitar the show unfolds like a dream. Impressive, complex and witty. Seeing is believing, or more likely not! Compagnie 111 members trained at the Lido Circus School in Toulouse and worked with Mladan Materic's Tattoo Theatre before setting up their own ensemble in 1999. Plan B is directed by Phil Soltanoff, artistic director of Mad Dog Theatre Company in New York.
'Sensational! With its magical inventiveness, its technical perfection, its humour and poetry, Plan B makes the dream of Icarus come true.' La Depeche du Midi

SPECIAL HALF PRICE OFFER FOR UNDER 16s ON SUNDAY 18 JAN -
£13 / £16 SEATS REDUCED TO £6.50/£8
Recommended age range: 8 years and above

Runs approx 70 mins without interval

Presented in association with SBC Supported by the French Embassy, Institut français du Royaume-Uni and Association Française d’Action Artistique/Ministère des Affaires Etrangères

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Chipolatas UK
Ballroom Floor, Royal Festival Hall
Sat 17 - Sun 18 Jan 1pm
FREE
venue details

Festival favourites The Chipolatas present a full colour, family circus-theatre show, featuring scratches and samples, samba and fun(ky) street styles with their own inimitable explosive energy! This year they have teamed up with local youth group The 99A Project to create music and movement that celebrates communication beyond mere words. Ideal for families and fun for all ages.

Presented in association with SBC Education

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Paolo Nani + Kristjan Ingimarsson Denmark
The Art of Dying
Purcell Room
Mon 19 – Tue 20 Jan 8pm
£12.50 (£9 concs)
booking details

In 70 minutes of wordless hilarity, and tenderness, The Art of Dying explores the big taboo issue we all have to face but want to ignore. Paolo Nani and Kristjan Ingimarsson are two clowns, a long-standing double act at the peak of their career. Suddenly one of them learns he is dying. How does a clown die? Are there any
instructions? How to die politely, without making a mess? And does it really have to be
in the middle of a successful tour? With nothing to lose, it's time to enjoy the 'now' as never before. But in the fantastic mystery of Life Before Death, nothing is quite straightforward..
Italian born Paolo Nani scored a hit at the festival with his previous show, The Letter, winner of the 1992 European Comedy Award and performed more than 600 times all over Europe. This new production with Kristjan Ingimarsson seems set for similar success.
'Great comic theatre about man and his fragility - you might just die laughing'. L'Eco di Bergamo. Italy
'Incredibly funny, warm and touching'. Lofotposten. Norway

Runs approx 70 mins without interval

Presented in association with SBC Supported by the Royal Danish Embassy

Tour dates:
Leicester Phoenix: Thur 15 Jan
Croydon Clocktower: Fri 16 Jan
Newbury Corn Exchange: Sat 17 Jan

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Ridiculusmus UK
How to be Funny
Scratch Performance @ ICA
Mon 19 Jan 8pm  
£5 (£4 concs + ICA members inc day membership)
booking details

Fresh from the success of its latest show Ideas Men... (’sublimely amusing’ Telegraph ’inspired’ Times) first seen as a scratch performance at LIMF 2003 before enjoying a hugely successful run at the Barbican's BITE:03 and now touring the UK, Ridiculusmus takes time out to present some new ideas at the ICA, scratching under the title How to be Funny.
Ridiculusmus is Jon Hough and David Woods. Its previous shows include Yes, Yes, Yes, The Exhibitionists (LIMF 2000) and Say Nothing.
Ridiculusmus is produced by Your Imagination

Runs approx 40 mins without interval

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Gecko UK
The Race
Scratch Performance @ BAC
Tue 20 - Wed 21 Jan 8pm   
£4.75 (£3.50 concs)
booking details

No sooner are we born than a clock begins ticking towards our inevitable death. And yet at each moment of life, with every breath, we share an instinct that drives us to survive. We ourselves are the latest in a long line of survivors, carrying with us the stories of those who came before and ensuring the survival of our race. And yet, we live in an age where we feel increasingly isolated from each other, from our personal histories and from ourselves.
An opportunity to see an early stage in the development of Gecko’s second show; the first, Taylor’s Dummies, was Guardian Pick of the Fringe, 2002 and Time Out Critics' Choice of the Year, 2002.
‘Gecko combines a deliciously warped imagination with all-out physical daring.’
The Times

Runs approx 70 mins without interval

BAC Supported Artists 2003 Commissioned by BAC and London International Mime Festival

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CanStage Canada
The Overcoat
Barbican Theatre
Tue 20 - Sat 24 Jan 7.45pm
£7, £12, £16, £21, £26, £30 (booking fee)
booking details

Can clothes change your life?
Find out in this intricate, stylised and beautifully choreographed comedy of splendour and madness set in 19th century Russia. Based on Nikolai Gogol's classic short stories The Overcoat and Diary of a Madman, and set to the sweeping music of Shostakovich, this multiple award winning production tells the tale of an ordinary office worker whose life is transformed when he acquires a fabulous new overcoat. With its dynamic mix of music and thrilling physical theatre, this play without words evokes Keaton, Chaplin and the masters of silent film. Each element of the show - 22 strong cast, spectacular set design, haunting lighting and striking period costumes - combines to create a magical world.

The Canadian Stage Company
A CanStage Production Created by Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling
Produced by CanStage, The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and Glynis Henderson Productions
Presented in association with BITE:04

'Dazzling, hilarious, enchanting, beautiful and haunting... It will make you laugh and send shivers down your spine. In a word, spectacular'. The Globe and Mail
'I loved it. Visually stunning and definitely not the norm. Brilliant.' Colin Farrell
'A seamless piece of dance theatre that operates on
a grand scale'. Variety

Recommended age range: 7 and above

Runs approx 90 mins without interval

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Gandini Juggling UK
Duet/Quartet
Purcell Room
Wed 21 - Thur 22 Jan 8pm
£12.50 (£9 concs)
booking details

Gandini workshop Sat 17 Jan 2-5pm The Circus Space

Gandini Juggling is a London-based group of virtuoso jugglers, considered by circus connoisseurs to be
the crème de la crème of dexterous creativity. Choreographed by long time collaborator, Gill
Clarke, its double bill for the Mime Festival celebrates a decade of exuberant juggling. In Duet, a new work directed by John Paul Zaccarini (Company F/Z) and set to a soundtrack of fado and romantic songs, and with Guy Bellingham live on musical saw, company founders Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala put a mirror to their work/life relationship, as lovers and juggling partners.
Quartet, an unashamed celebration of group juggling features Iñaki Fernandez Sastre, Sean Gandini, Manu Laude and Kati Ylä-Hokkala.
The Gandini quartet is a tightly knit precision machine, weaving complex patterns with balls, clubs and rings – 30 minutes of joyous virtuosity set to the music of Vivaldi.
'Somewhere between juggling and dance, this beautifully performed piece is light but resonant with a simple emotional pull and a lovely understated maturity.' The Times
ÔBreathtaking choreography... funny and aesthetically delightful. The audience, myself included, were rapt!' British Theatre Guide

Runs approx 60 mins without interval

Presented in association with SBC
Quartet was partly funded by a Science and Art Award from the Wellcome Trust

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Theatre 2.0 CANADA
Breath[e]
ICA
Wed 21 - Sun 25 Jan Wed - Fri 7pm, 8pm    Sat 6pm, 7pm, 8pm    Sun 3pm
£8 (£6 concs + ICA members inc day membership)
booking details

The room is dark, the seats are few. You sit and wait until a blackness creeps up over you, embraces you, and then the sound begins – the heartbeat sound, the rasping sound, it surrounds you and swallows you until you are unsure if it comes from outside of you or from within you. Keep your eyes open. Keep your heart beating. And don’t forget to breath[e]…
Performed in a specially created environment for twenty seven people at a time, BREATH[e] is a play without words or actors, a play that happens to you, not just in front of you.

Runs approx 30 mins without interval

Presented with support from the Canada Council for the Arts Conseil des Arts du Canada

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Pep Bou Spain
Bufaplanetes
Purcell Room
Fri 23 - Sun 25 Jan Fri - Sat 8pm, Sat - Sun mats 4pm
£12.50 (£9 concs)
booking details

Also at: Newbury Corn Exchange Wed 21 Jan 01635 522 733

In one of the most extraordinary creations imaginable, Catalan theatre magician Pep Bou conjures a seductive planetarium of brilliant colour, airiness and light. Infused with the alchemy and off-beat humour of an exotic Mediterranean tradition of visual theatre, Bufaplanetes explores a secret universe and its mysteries, great and small. Pure enchantment, technical wizardry, fleeting and fragile - and it's all done with soap bubbles! A classic. Suitable for all ages.
Pep Bou grew up in Barcelona where he originally trained as an architect. In a twenty year performance career his work has held audiences spellbound around the world. Bufaplanetes was previously featured in a sold-out season at the 1998 Festival.
Early booking recommended.
'Never have I been so enchanted.... Bufaplanetes has won a string of awards in Europe and it's not hard to see why. It's funny, enchanting and simply delightful'. Evening Post. New Zealand

www.pepbou.com

Runs approx 85 mins without interval

Presented in association with SBC

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Told by an Idiot UK
I'm A Fool To Want You
BAC
Sat 24 - Sun 25 Jan Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm   (continues to 22 Feb)
£14.75 (£6.50 concs)
Sign-language interpreted performance: Sun 25 Jan 6pm
After Show discussion: Sun 25 Jan
booking details

Workshop Sat 31 Jan - Sun 1 Feb

A unique theatre experience, fusing live jazz, improvisation, and a new dance craze where the world literally turns upside down.
Following the sell-out runs of A Little Fantasy ('90 minutes of pure pleasure, a deeply eccentric and beguiling show' Daily Telegraph) and Playing The Victim (‘beautifully judged performances’ Daily Mail), Told by an Idiot complete the celebration of their tenth anniversary.
Based on the life and work of French cult novelist Boris Vian, I'm A Fool To Want You promises to be a freewheeling look at the nature of deception, an act of revenge, and the desire to live in the moment. Inspired by Vian's bizarre death, and performed in a style of extreme comic physicality, I’m a Fool to Want You will lure you into a world of the fantastic where the unexpected is perfectly normal.
The company will be joined by Perrier Jazz award-winning pianist Zoe Rahman, who will perform alongside Told by an Idiot co-founder Hayley Carmichael (Time Out Best Actress Award), and regular 'Idiot' Stephen Harper (I Weep At My Piano and Shoot Me In The Heart).
Conceived and directed by Paul Hunter

‘Britain's barmiest physical theatre ensemble’ THE GUARDIAN

Minimum recommended age: 15 years

Developed at and commissioned by BAC

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Winter Clown Workshop
HOW TO BE A STUPID clown workshop with Angela de Castro
THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS with Barry & Joan Grantham
I LIKE TO SING IN THE BATH with Juliet Hill
Mon 12 – Sun 25 Jan Mon - Fri 9.30am-6pm
Choir performance dates: Sat 24 & Sun 25 Jan
Course fee £350
Venue: Lavender Hill, London SW11
Bookings: The Why Not Institute 020 7739 8363

Led by Angela de Castro, Founder/Director of The Why Not Institute, with guest teachers Juliet Hill and Barry & Joan Grantham, this is an opportunity to learn clowning, group singing and eccentric dancing, putting them all together into an exciting performance of The Why Not Institute’s clown choir, the HaHarmonics, at BAC.
"This is a wonderful self-contained course which we ran very successfully in Edinburgh in summer 2003. The singing and dancing act as supporting disciplines to the clowning, giving students a great chance to put it all together immediately in a performance at the end of the school."
de Castro

How To Be A Stupid is a practical clowning and performance craft workshop about the profound search for the clown within. Clowning is not a technique but a state and the aim is to encourage participants to find their path to this state. As an introduction to de Castro’s method, the workshop builds trust, confidence and a common vocabulary among the participants. It works as a process of discovery for beginners and reassurance for those who are already clowning and need a burst of energy and focus. This workshop is inspiring, emotional, reassuring, energetic and not for the faint-hearted. Be ready to work hard, have homework, think, be challenged and laugh!
Angela de Castro Since moving to England from her native Brazil 17 years ago, de Castro has developed an international reputation as a master clown teacher, performer and director. De Castro is a Nesta (National Endowment for Science Technology & the Arts) Dream Time Fellow and a 2003 Arts Foundation Awardee. She toured with groundbreaking contemporary circus groups and is well known for her clown ‘Rough’ in the award- winning Slava’s Snowshow. She has extensively toured her own shows, The Gift and My Life Is Like A Yo Yo and currently has a show about Shakespeare’s fools, only fools no horses, and a Clown Opera in development.
There’s No Business Like Show Business is led by Barry & Joan Grantham. In this workshop there will be a chance to learn time-honoured Show Biz routines, as well as eccentric steps made famous by performers like Max Wall, Little Tich, Rubberneck Jackley, and Snakehips Johnson!
I Like To Sing In The Bath is led by Juliet Hill. This workshop is for everyone who wants to develop their rhythm and pitch, develop a better ear, and learn to sing more confidently with others and on their own. If you like singing in the bath, if you’ve ever wanted to put singing into your performing but never felt confident enough to do it, then this workshop is for you!
To book: Contact The Why Not Institute for a booking form and for any queries on 020 7739 8363 The Why Not Institute, People Show Studios, Pollard Row, London E2 6NB
E-mail: whynotinstitutue@aol.com

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Talks, Workshops + Special Events

TOTAL THEATRE TALKS
An exploration of female practitioners within the physical and visual sector.
Voice Box, Royal Festival Hall: Sat 17 Jan 2.30-4.30pm
The discussion will look at the way in which female practitioners work and explores issues surrounding working methodologies. The international panel will be led by Dick McCaw.
£5.50 (£3.50 concs).
The event is FREE to Total Theatre Members. One ticket per Individual/student member, two tickets for all other membership categories. Limited capacity so early booking is recommended.
Please e-mail: talks@totaltheatre.org.uk or call 020 7729 7944
Further details of speakers available on the Total Theatre Website: www.totaltheatre.org.uk

GANDINI JUGGLING
Half-day juggling workshop with Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala
Sat 17 Jan: 2-5pm
Led by Sean and Kati who have been researching and teaching juggling for the last decade, this workshop will be about enjoying the many possibilities involved in throwing and catching. The day is aimed at jugglers of all levels and hopes to give participants an opportunity to widen their skills and learn new patterns.
The workshop will be tailored to the participant’s needs. However, the menu will include ways of making simple things complex and complex things more accessible.
Course fee: £25.00
Bookings: The Circus Space 020 7729 9522
Venue: The Circus Space, Coronet Street, London N1 6HD

THEATRE DE L'ANGE FOU & ECOLE DU MIME CORPOREL DRAMATIQUE
Making Visible the Invisible (Etienne Decroux)
Sat 17 - Sun 18 Jan: 11am-2pm
A two-day intensive workshop, offering the opportunity to explore the infinite theatrical expression of the human body through the precise and creative method of Corporal Mime. Led by Steve Wasson and Corinne Soum, the last assistants of Etienne Decroux, directors of the Ecole du Mime Corporel Dramatique, and members of their company, Theatre de l'Ange Fou, this training will be divided into several areas: Technique, Improvisation and Repertoire.
Course fee: £60.00
Venue: Belgravia Workshops, 157-163 Marlborough Road, London N19 4NF
Booking: 020 7263 9339
Transport: Archway Tube Station. (Marlborough Rd is off Holloway Rd towards Hornsey Rd). Buses: 43, 210, 271.

THE TEACHINGS OF JACQUES LECOQ
Sat 24 - Sun 25 Jan: 10am to 3.30 pm (with 1/2 hour break)
This two-day workshop will give an introduction to the dramatic use of time, rhythm and pace and is based on the teachings of the late Jacques Lecoq. It is addressed to actors, dancers and other performing artists, who are attracted to the idea of creating her or his own theatre. The workshop is animated by Thomas Prattki, founder and director of the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) and former pedagogical director of the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, and Amy Russell, Chair of the Naropa University MFA Programme in Physical Theatre at LISPA.
Course fee: £100.00
Booking: Maider Illana on 0208 969 7004 or email welcome@lispa.co.uk.
Venue: London International School of Performing Arts
Ground Floor, 272 Latimer Road London W10 6QY
Tube: Latimer Road (Hammersmith & City Line). Exit right along Bramley Rd, passing under the flyover, and take 2nd left into Oxford Gardens. At the end, turn right into Latimer Rd. LISPA is on the right just by Latimer Place.

ASPECTS OF MAX WALL
The Greenwich Theatre
Sat 24 Jan: 11am-11pm

First major event of the recently established Max Wall Society to celebrate the life and work of this unique and much loved actor/clown. The day includes an exhibition of his life and achievements and a Variety Bill of mime, mirth, movement and music.
Full details direct from Greenwich Theatre Box Office 020 8858 7755 or by post (with SAE) from: The Secretary, Max Wall Society, 11 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road WC2N 4EZ

TOLD BY AN IDIOT
The Sound of Surprise
Sat 31 Jan-Sun 1 Feb: 10am-5pm
As a companion to their new show I'm a Fool to Want You, Told by an Idiot offers this dynamic two-day workshop. Using live and recorded sound, the company will explore the use of music to provoke spontaneity and chaotic improvisation.

Price: £65.00 Bookings, venue and workshop info: 020 7978 4200

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VENUES

Royal Festival Hall
incorporating The Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall
Belvedere Road SE1 8XX
020 7960 4242
www.rfh.org.uk
Shows:
Fabrik
Akhe
Nani/Ingimarsson
Gandini Juggling
Pep Bou
Compagnie 111
Chipolatas

In Person:
RFH Box Office daily 11am-9pm
QEH/Purcell Room 1 hour before performance.

By Phone:
020 7960 4242 daily 9am-8pm. Handling charge £1.50 per phone transaction.

Christmas closure: from 5pm on 24 Dec, re-opening at 1pm on 26 Dec and from 6pm on 31 Dec, re-opening at 2pm on New Year's Day.
By E-mail:
boxoffice@rfh.org.uk

By Fax: 020 7921 0821

On-Line: www.rfh.org.uk

By Post:
Cheques should be made payable to 'South Bank Centre' and sent with first class s.a.e. or add 50p postage to The Box Office, at above address. Leave amount blank but indicate upper limit. Please quote your name, address and phone numbers.

Minicom Textphone: 020 7921 0921.

Transport:
By Tube: Waterloo, or cross river from Temple, Embankment or Charing Cross.
By Bus: 1,4,26,59,68,76,168, 171,172,176,188,243,341,501,521,X68 stop on Waterloo Bridge.
76,77,211,341,381 stop in York Road.
By Train: Waterloo or Waterloo East.

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BAC
Lavender Hill
SW11 5TN
020 7223 2223
www.bac.org.uk
Shows:
Patter
Blind Summit
Gecko
Told by an Idiot

In Person:
Mon 10.30am-6pm
Tue-Sat 10.30am-9pm
Sun 4-8pm
Christmas closure:
24-26 Dec, 29, 31 Dec, 1 Jan
By Phone:
020 7223 2223 until 6pm (7pm on Sun).
By Post:
Send cheque made payable to 'BAC Ltd' to The Box Office, at the above address, enclosing a 1st class s.a.e.
By E-mail:
boxoffice@bac.org.uk
Reservations:
Unpaid reservations should be collected within 3 working days of the booking, or 1 hour before the show if the booking is made less than 3 days before. BAC cannot guarantee late admission.
Transport:
By Train: 10 minutes from Clapham Junction station (from Waterloo or Victoria main line stations). Turn left out of station and walk up the hill. Cross the junctions with Falcon and Latchmere Roads. BAC is on the left just after Theatre Street.
By Tube: Victoria Line to Vauxhall, then 77 or 77A bus. Allow 30 mins for bus journey.
By Bus: 35,37,345,77,77A,115,319, 337,C3,G1.

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