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YMT Auditions are for anyone aged 11 to 21 looking to kick-start their career in the performing arts - join the YMT 2017 Company!

You are auditioning to be part of YMT’s 2017 Summer Season where, if successful, you’ll be placed on a two/three-week project to create a brand new piece of music theatre with a team of theatre professionals. YMT projects are residential - so you'll be living away from home - and take place in July/August across the UK. The selection process is not based on geography, so you may not be placed on the course closest to where you live.

The audition is a three-hour group workshop where you’ll be led by a professional director, a musical director and a choreographer - YOU DO NOT NEED TO PREPARE ANYTHING!

BRISTOL AUDITION - SUNDAY 22 JANUARY 2017:

Session 1: 10:00 - 13:00
Session 2: 14:00 - 17:00

WE ARE SORRY TO ANNOUNCE THAT THIS IS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES

Look No Further

Ria Hartley

‘One of the UK’s most exciting performance makers’

Live Art Development Agency

A celebration of (r)evolution and love

On 18th May 2013, Ria Hartley was self-married by civil partnership. This is her life’s commitment.

Look No Further is about a woman of colour raising the stakes in her life to determine her own vision and future. Staged as a post wedding reception dinner, the performance invites an audience as guests to this unique celebration of 'queering' and reclamation.

Time: performance 6 – 7.30pm, followed by party

Dress code: Celebratory

#wildcard #ibt17

WINNER OF IBT WILD CARD AWARD 2017

The Wild Card Award commissions one exceptional UK artist every IBT Festival. From a national open call, the artist is selected on the basis of an outstanding interdisciplinary practice and the urgency of their work.

Produced by In Between Time in partnership with The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA), Fierce Festival and Trinity Community Arts.

Tree House

By Chris Fogg

Tree House is a story of love and dreams, promises and betrayals, hope and redemption, shot through with warmth, humour and compassion.

It relates the fortunes of three people – Robbie, Jane and Alan – whom we first encounter as children playing in a tree house on a piece of waste ground on the edge of a village. We then follow each of them as they navigate their way along the different rungs of the social and property ladder: Jane goes into law, politics and the media; Alan pursues a career in property, finance and the City; while Robbie joins the Army, carries out a number of tours of duty in Afghanistan, defusing roadside bombs, where a spontaneous act of kindness leads to a sudden and unexpected tragedy.

Some years later fate conspires to bring all three back to the waste ground, back to the tree house, where old scores are settled in a final act of reckoning.

A story for our times. A play for today.

Responses to Tree House:

“… looks at life’s moving parts through a watchmaker’s loupe. Shows how the tiniest elements can affect the whole mechanism, meshing apparently disparate details, making them not just tick, but unexpectedly chime.” Quentin Cooper, broadcaster and journalist, former presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Material World

“Gripping and poignant.” Kate Wood, Artistic Director, Activate

“Evokes fundamental questions of now, who we are and where we are inside ourselves…” Mark Bruce, winner of Sky Arts/South Bank Award 2014

“Chris Fogg is a master at seeing the extraordinary in the everyday bits and pieces of modern life. I have an inextinguishable admiration for his gentle politic, for his ability to weave an apparently simple idea into a thoughtful reflection of what we should value most. This is quietly urgent work.” Gavin Stride, Director Farnham Maltings, house and caravan

Ages 3+

Did you know that Astronauts get taller in space? That our solar system is around 4.6 billion years old? Or that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all of the beaches on Earth?

Amira knows all of these things. She is completely obsessed with space and every night dreams of becoming an Astronaut. But one night, the bangs, whooshes and fizzes of her imagination explode right out of her dreams, becoming a deafening reality. In the darkness, Amira’s Mother tells her that they must leave their hometown to go on an adventure together, to find a new home: a safe space. Hearing the words ‘space’ and ‘adventure’ among the chaos, Amira quickly packs her bag for the intergalactic trip she’s been waiting for…

A completely original one woman show without words, A Strange New Space will meld physical theatre with stunning puppetry and original music. You will be taken on an imagined voyage into space, which is paralleled with Amira’s real-life journey as a refugee across continents, forming an unforgettable introduction to theatre for audience of three years and older.

This production is undergoing a ‘research and development’ phase in partnership with Integrate Bristol, Circomedia, The Trinity Centre and May Park Primary School this Autumn, funded by Arts Council England. The project will be further developed over the Spring of 2017. A National tour will commence in Easter 2017, before continuing internationally in 2018.

Part of Ignite Arts at Trinity

Ignite Programme Presents:

Jo Fong

An Invitation…

An Invitation... is an alive and evolving work.

An Invitation... is about connection, conversation, spontaneity and uncertainty. It’s also playful, joyous, imaginative, powerful and human.

An Invitation… is about us.

We are creating this performance now.

We play the performer.

We play the audience.

We are the show.

Performances at 6pm & 8pm

Jo Fong is a director, choreographer and performer working in dance, film, theatre and the visual arts. Jo has worked with Rosas, DV8 and Rambert and is, according to Luke Jennings of The Observer, ‘something of a legend on the UK contemporary dance scene.'

Photo Credit John Collingswood

Conceived & Directed by Jo Fong

Performers: Jo Fong, Beth Powlesland and Luke Divall

Collaborator & Documentation: Heloise Godfrey-Talbot

Lighting Designer: John Collingswood

Contributors and Collaborators: Performers, artists and audiences have contributed to this evening of work. As the work evolves the list of people keeps growing. There are too many names to mention although we would like to thank them all for their generous contribution.

An Invitation… has been selected for British Dance Edition 2016 and the British Council Edinburgh Showcase 2015.

An Invitation… was created with support from Arts Council Wales, British Council, EU Culture, Sherman Cymru, Chapter Arts Centre, Rubicon Dance and Coreo Cymru.

"Radical-witty and entertainingly thought-provoking." The Herald

"An Invitation… is performance distilled to its essence. " The Guardian

Cardboard Citizens presents as part of The Ignite Programme

Cathy by Ali Taylor

Directed by Adrian Jackson

Settled …. Until suddenly you’re not…

Candid, poignant and intimate, this new play by award winning playwright Ali Taylor offers a timely reflection on the social and personal impact of spiralling housing costs, gentrification and the challenges of the forced relocation away from London.

Acclaimed Theatre Company Cardboard Citizens presents this powerful and emotive Forum Theatre show, exploring resonances in today’s society with the story told in the ground-breaking Ken Loach film, Cathy Come Home, 50 years ago.

The Forum session which follows the play is an interactive theatrical debate which empowers the audience to take issue with subject matter – and even participate in a live rewriting of the story.

Ali Taylor’s previous credits include plays Cotton Wool and OVERSPILL (both Critics Choice).  He is currently adapting his sell out show Fault Lines for TV.

Let us know you’re coming to see the show and join the conversation on Twitter using #Cathy

“Cardboard Citizens is a theatre company that must surely rank as being amongst the most genuinely life-changing in the UK” What’s On Stage

Show times

Matinee: 2.30pm / Evening: 7pm

Cathy will also be performed on Friday 21st October: 7pm

Age guidance 14+

Cardboard Citizens presents as part of The Ignite Programme

Cathy by Ali Taylor

Directed by Adrian Jackson

Settled …. Until suddenly you’re not…

Candid, poignant and intimate, this new play by award winning playwright Ali Taylor offers a timely reflection on the social and personal impact of spiralling housing costs, gentrification and the challenges of the forced relocation away from London.

Acclaimed Theatre Company Cardboard Citizens presents this powerful and emotive Forum Theatre show, exploring resonances in today’s society with the story told in the ground-breaking Ken Loach film, Cathy Come Home, 50 years ago.

The Forum session which follows the play is an interactive theatrical debate which empowers the audience to take issue with subject matter – and even participate in a live rewriting of the story.

Ali Taylor’s previous credits include plays Cotton Wool and OVERSPILL (both Critics Choice).  He is currently adapting his sell out show Fault Lines for TV.

Let us know you’re coming to see the show and join the conversation on Twitter using #Cathy

“Cardboard Citizens is a theatre company that must surely rank as being amongst the most genuinely life-changing in the UK” What’s On Stage

Show times

Matinee: 2.30pm / Evening: 7pm

Cathy will also be performed on Friday 21st October: 7pm

Age guidance 14+

Cardboard Citizens presents as part of The Ignite Programme

Cathy by Ali Taylor

Directed by Adrian Jackson

Settled …. Until suddenly you’re not…

Candid, poignant and intimate, this new play by award winning playwright Ali Taylor offers a timely reflection on the social and personal impact of spiralling housing costs, gentrification and the challenges of the forced relocation away from London.

Acclaimed Theatre Company Cardboard Citizens presents this powerful and emotive Forum Theatre show, exploring resonances in today’s society with the story told in the ground-breaking Ken Loach film, Cathy Come Home, 50 years ago.

The Forum session which follows the play is an interactive theatrical debate which empowers the audience to take issue with subject matter – and even participate in a live rewriting of the story.

Ali Taylor’s previous credits include plays Cotton Wool and OVERSPILL (both Critics Choice).  He is currently adapting his sell out show Fault Lines for TV.

Let us know you’re coming to see the show and join the conversation on Twitter using #Cathy

Press quote

“Cardboard Citizens is a theatre company that must surely rank as being amongst the most genuinely life-changing in the UK” What’s On Stage

Show times

Friday: 7pm

There will also be two performance of Cathy Saturday 22nd October: 2.30pm / 7pm

Age guidance 14+

Peter McMaster, and co-performer Nick Anderson, reflect on their experience of approaching and moving through the infamous age of 27. Through the process of unashamedly unpacking their autobiographies they establish a strikingly visceral poetic that explores this milestone and juncture between youth and maturity, movement and change.

Trying to understand how life is never fixed, these two performers push their bodies towards exhaustive extremes, inhabiting moments of pain, grief and elation, transforming the threat of untimely death into an explosive celebration of being.

‘Honest, inventive and beautifully choreographed’ The Guardian

Peter McMaster is an IBT Wild Card Award Winner.

27 was first presented at IBT15 and was presented at The Place, London, as part of Forest Fringe microfestival. It is currently being produced by IBT and was developed with support from The Arches, Glasgow.

“A look at the insidious nature of male violence, an anarchic, nihilistic energy throughout, and moments of real  tenderness.”
–Lorna Irvine, Exeunt

Peter McMaster is an experimental performance practitioner based in Glasgow, Scotland. He creates work for live art and performance contexts, and only works in traditional contexts if setting out to challenge tradition itself. ‘“Each time their bodies slam into one another, it’s all I can do not to gasp with the bruising beauty of it’’

Historically, his work has been personally and politically engaged in trying to understand his responsibility as an artist living in a time of ecological and social crisis.

–Catherine Love, Exeunt
“As the ash settles we are left with the feeling that we have witnessed something unique’ ”

Age: 14 + (show contains nudity)

“Wielding inspiration and uplift in equal measure, this musical odyssey is one of the cinematic journeys of the year. Don't miss it.”

Philip Wilding, Empire ★ ★ ★ ★

From the lawless streets of Kinshasa, Congo, comes one of the most incredible stories ever committed to film. Five years in the making, BENDA BILILI follows a group of street musicians as they struggle to record their first album. Four of the group are paraplegics who get around Kinshasa in Mad Max/ Easy Rider-style customised wheelchairs. The other three are homeless street children whose star is Roger Landau - a teenage prodigy who plays on a home-made, single string guitar, fashioned from a tin can.

Prepare to lose yourself in the remarkable true story of BENDA BILILI, as we follow them from their first recording session to worldwide acclaim and stardom. Hailed as the new Buena Vista Social Club and brimming with humour in the vein of Anvil, BENDA BILILI is an inspirational, infectious, hilarious and life-affirming story of a dream that becomes reality.

12 +

Presented by Come The Revolution as Part of Doing Things Differently

Intensive Contact Improvisation workshop with Nita Little

The informed Bodymind: Beyond dance/The invisible CI skills

This dance form invites us to have a self-sense that extends spatially to include our partners and our environment. Its skills ask for physical/mental states beyond our normative modes and modalities. And, it stretches our understanding of physicality and perception. The aim of this class is to increase our ability to act responsively through developing new physical and perceptual skills that enhance our peripheral intelligence. By discovering new forms of awareness we will learn to dance safely in a state that gives us an ability to read each ecological moment spatially and energetically. With the dance as our teacher, we will come to able to trust ourselves to meet each moment successfully whether we are falling or flying.

Our Mighty Groove

An immersive - interactive nightclub in a theatre experience

Our Mighty Groove is an immersive-interactive show set within a New York underground nightclub where the space is filled with dance, music and ‘diva’ antics. You are the audience and performer as you observe and experience the individual attributes of five female club goers whose personalities and amusing behaviour leave you standing on the edge of your feet!

Using a blend of club styles such as House, Waacking and Vogue, fused with African and Contemporary Dance, Our Mighty Groove is the theatre clubbing experience that empowers you to let go and LIVE YOUR LIFE on the dance floor!

Reviews

**** - The Independent

Our Mighty Groove is a high-energy immersive production combining infective rhythms, dance styles and attitude - DANCE TOG BLOG

You might also be interested in our Open Class by Uchenna Dance, more info here

About Uchenna Dance

The Company

Uchenna Dance is based in London, UK. It was formed in January 2009 under the vision and leadership of Vicki Igbokwe, shortly after she experienced a life-changing trip to New York during the summer of 2008. It was a Wednesday evening and Vicki had just finished taking a house dance class at Peridance Studios and had been told about a club called Sin Sin, that had a house night called Soulgasam. It hit her that this dance she was falling in love with, house dance, was much more than just a style of dance, it was a culture, a way of life. The DJ was spinning some tunes and the dancers were killing it…

The Uchenna dance style fuses Waacking, Vogue and House with traditional African and Contemporary, creating a signatory aesthetic that simply is, Uchenna.

Uchenna (pronounced OO-CHENNA) offers a unique and contemporary addition to the UK dance scene.

Since its inception, Uchenna Dance has grown from an informal explorative company to a tour de force within the dance sector.

The company’s overarching aim is to Empower, Entertain and Educate through dance in a diverse programme that includes the production of dance theatre production experiences, coaching, dance based empowerment workshops and teaching in further and higher education.