Alone Festival 2011 Programme

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Sarah Dobbs confirmed for Alone

The God-bone by Sarah Dobbs is a piece of recorded self-performance written especially for Alone.  

Sarah is a lecturer in English and creative writing at the university centre blackburn. Her story the red balloon was published by flax books in March and she's currently at work on a novel called the lemonade girl. Follow her on twitter @sarahjanedobbs

Rich Jaffa confirmed for Alone

Jaffa, a comedian, clown and actor, sometimes all at once will be showing a new piece of work at Alone.


http://thebadmancometh.blogspot.com/

Fiction Pimps confirmed for Alone

Title: Seeing what is not supposed to be seen // The Fictional State of Mind

FICTION PIMPS

Working Members at House of Futures

The Performance Agency, Fiction Pimps, manifest ‘Cracks’ in everyday life – Sensory fictive parallel universes that aim at activating the aesthetic dimension of experience and reflection, to enrich any given situation and the persons involved in it.

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Fiction Pimps are hybrids of performers, sirens, agents, poets, futurists, activists, visionaries, mystics and scientists.

Hijas Del Mal confirmed for Alone

Title: quevaievá

We are convinced that the best way to get to know a city is by its local market. The culture of the place emerges from every corner: the smells, the colors, the flavors, the sounds. We've tried to visit local markets in every city we've been to: Denmark, Germany, Brazil, the UK, Uruguay...
For us, making an "audio-tour" of our central market was the best way to bring everyday life in Córdoba to you.
The expression "quevaievá" is, for us, full of meaning. For starters, it is exactly how you would write "que va a llevar?" (translated: what are you buying/taking home?) if you are hearing it directly from a local person in our home town. Weird accent and all. It is also the most heard question trough out our "tour". It's the first thing you're asked when you're seen wandering around, when you get to the different stands, when you open a door in a shop. This is our way to bring you close to us.

Hijas del Mal is an artistic partnership between Pia Bertoldi and Sol Montaldo. Playing with aesthetics, fiction and space, we create parallel worlds in which the participants are able to transform reality. We are inspired in the past, the present and the future, walking the line between what is fantastic and what is real, together with eccentric characters in unusual times.
Hijas del Mal makes you step out of your comfort zone and into a new way of observing the world.

http://hijasdelmal.blogspot.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hijasdelmal
http://hijasdelmal.tumblr.com

Collective Unconscious confirmed for Alone

Immersive theatre company Collective Unconscious will be showing a number of pieces at Alone including:

Atrium - a moment of intimacy over a potters wheel.
Menagerie - an encounter with a memory of life. An encounter with death.
Jane Mills - a site-specific audio performance.
Epiderm - narrative written and presented on skin.
Forever Falling - a digital self-performance.

Collective Unconscious are a company working in immersive, interactive and participatory performance. They have shown work as part of The Harrogate International Festival and Worcestershire Literary Festival.

http://collectiveunconscious.co.uk

Beck and Burnett Confirmed for Alone

Remaking History

Beck and Burnett invite audience members to re-create a key moment in their history.


This could be a memory or a moment in time that has either significantly affected or played an important part in your life. It could also be something that has not happened to you directly, it could be something you heard about and it consequently affected you in some way. There is no specific criteria for the content, all we ask is that the moment is personal to you. You are very welcome to bring an object or piece of costume with you to help re-create this memory if need be. 

Artists Antonia Beck and Kim Burnett are emerging, interdisciplinary artists who have come together to form a progressive arts partnership called Beck & Burnett. We have a shared desire to explore interdisciplinary arts opportunities and we are particularly interested in challenging the predetermined concepts surrounding arts and culture and exploring the relationship between the performer and the audience member. Our collaborative work was most recently shown at the Stoke Newington Intimacy Festival.

One Week to Go!

Just over one week to go until Alone. Exciting line-up announced including Fiction Pimps (Denmark), Coffee+Sponge (UK), Hijas Del Mal (Argentina), Beck and Burnett (UK), Jane George and Fran Leighton (UK), Sarah Dobbs (UK), Rich Jaffa (UK) Collective Unconscious (UK).

Coffee+Sponge added to bill

We're pleased to announce that Coffee+Sponge's work Eating Our Words will be shown as part of Alone on Sunday the 7th August.


Coffee+Sponge is a collaboration between Samuel Overington, Jennifer Farmer + you.  Together we are performance provocateurs, creating work that is both epic + intimate, transient + permanent.  Whether it's a banquet of theatre/art installation, film or life drawing salons, Coffee+Sponge never leave the table hungry.  Our work has been experienced in a variety of places including Mile End Art Pavilion, Café Hurwundeki, the Betsey Trotwood, Stour Space + the Old Police Station.

Call for Performances

There is still time to submit an idea for a performance to be shown at the festival please see:
Call for Performances for full information.

Alone Festival 2011

We're pleased to announce that the first Alone Festival of Performance will be held at The Worcester Arts Workshop on Sunday 7th August from 12.30pm. We are currently in the process of finalising the programme and we will post this up as soon as it is finished.