TEN CENTS A DANCE
p.c. alison matthews
Interested in getting your performance a bit more local this year? Bringing the logic of green consumerism, with its fetish for “local” and “home-grown” products, to you through performance practice, Ten Cents a Dance is a mini-performance that each audience member, ages 2 to 200, engages with individually. Each customer-participant’s experience is tailored according to the amount they’re willing to pay: paying more might result in more intimacy, a longer piece, or better quality of stage presence/commitment from the performer. The result is an experience both familiar in a capitalist society and disorienting – can “playing with paying” for art help us re-evaluate how and why we ascribe value to artistic activities? In this economic climate, bringing “macro” concepts of value to the “micro” scale of one-on-one performance might help to clarify confusion or even bring our understanding of these weighty abstractions to a more accessible, bodily level. The interactive nature of this performance brings “adult” economic concepts to a playful level, allowing participants of all ages to see old concepts anew. Previous incarnations with the Ten Cents a Dance format have occurred at
Arnolfini (Bristol), Green Man Festival (Wales), Electric Picnic Music & Arts Festival (Ireland), and the Relation and Participation: Key Concepts in Performance symposium 2011 (Wales).
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EVE SPEAKS: A MUSICAL CABARET
p.c. alison matthews
Join Eve for a kinkier retelling of the Book of Genesis told through the
languages of performance writing, cabaret, and live music.
Aren't fig leaves just the original (sin) version of nipple tassels?
The Serpent's her lover, Adam is flaccid, and the world is her oyster.
Eve Speaks has appeared at Project Arts Centre (Dublin),Hatch (Nottingham),
Brighton Festival Fringe, Bristol Old Vic (Mayfest launch),
Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival, Bawdsville Cabaret (London), and
Galway-NUIG Theatre Festival.
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SUR[VEIL] / SERVE[ALE]
pc Nick Strong
In the summer of 2008, I paid old men in pubs to tell me sexist jokes.
I paid women in pub bathrooms to confide in me.
And I set up a booth on the seaside prom in Aberystwyth, Wales
advertising "50p for your Dirty Jokes."
The result? An hour-long show about surveillance culture, sexism,
and language - told through a two-way mirror in a
functioning and bespoke peep show booth.
