I've been up to mischief again! Teaching Performance Writing to undergraduates at Aberystwyth University this term, and absolute loving it. Making innuendos about "orality," encouraging our youth to thwart carpal tunnel with the wrist-strengthening properties of manual writing...what's not to love?
Some upcoming dates I'd like to share with you:
NOV. 25 - EVE struts the stage again, this time at Bawdsville Cabaret @ The Ram Jam Club (Kingston-Upon Thames, London) - more information on venue HERE . I'm excited to test out some new ideas (and new costumes) in a full-on burlesque context! Can't wait to meet those ladies down there.
DEC.1 - I'm thrilled to share my new work LEDA AND STRAUSS-KAHN (work-in-progress) at the Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival's Box season - a programme combining film and storytelling to see how they can interplay. More on that soon.
EVE SPEAKS video documentation up
EVE SPEAKS: A MUSICAL CABARET
....and another snippet from Brighton's Warren Venue launch:
....and another snippet from Brighton's Warren Venue launch:
NEW TRACKS ONLINE
Hey guys,
Since I'm the last to the Soundcloud party, y'all are no stranger to it I'm sure. But I've finally accepted Myspace's problems and developed a Soundcloud page for your listening pleasure. It includes tracks I've recorded in a variety of contexts - from my homemade EP entitled ECTOPIC P[L]EASANTRIES, from my jazz debut with Dublin musicians "The Very Thought of You,"and from several other homespun projects.
Do have a listen! : http://soundcloud.com/bitchuationist
xo B
Since I'm the last to the Soundcloud party, y'all are no stranger to it I'm sure. But I've finally accepted Myspace's problems and developed a Soundcloud page for your listening pleasure. It includes tracks I've recorded in a variety of contexts - from my homemade EP entitled ECTOPIC P[L]EASANTRIES, from my jazz debut with Dublin musicians "The Very Thought of You,"and from several other homespun projects.
Do have a listen! : http://soundcloud.com/bitchuationist
xo B
SERVUS! / SERVE/US ECONOMY
Welcome! If you're reading this, you may have visited the stall at Leeds University as part of Performance Studies International (PSI) #18 and Ludus Festival Leeds. The following will provide some information about what you saw/ participated in. I also invite you to get in touch with me privately at alison DOT e DOT matthews AT gmail DOT com
if you'd like to give some feedback, request a photo, or just chat about the experience!
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Ten Cents a Dance is a platform that invites participants to engage as
customers with a one-on-one performance by a single artist. 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 a
better quality of stage presence from the performer. The result is an
experience both familiar in a capitalist society and disorienting: can “playing
with paying” help us to re-evaluate how
and why we ascribe value to artistic
activities?
The piece is for one audience member at a time, and invites each
participant to engage with the work through a dramaturgy we all know and love –
the live purchase. The “stage” takes the form of a humble table across which
you might be used to buying lemonade from a child.
The participant chooses her/his level of engagement through a “price
list” in the form a menu in front of them, which works by the logic of “the
more you pay for, the more you get” – more money equals more intimacy, a longer
show, a fuller one. Each customer enters into the theatrical contract on
her/his own terms, with the short performance piece then framed by the logic of
the values attached.
The content of the performance? Well, afraid you can’t try before you
buy . . .
SERVE/US @ Leeds's LUDUS festival!
Ten Cents a Dance's SERVE/US economy is featured as part of Ludus Festival Leeds's programme - link <here> . Looking forward to seeing Leeds's usual charm and shining the shoes of academics and artists alike.
13:00-16:00
University of Leeds, University Square Precinct
Look for a girl wearing a bowtie.
13:00-16:00
University of Leeds, University Square Precinct
Look for a girl wearing a bowtie.
ENNIS FESTIVAL workshops and performance
Please click here to see a description of the workshops and performance I'll be doing as part of the glorious Ennis Street Festival in Co. Clare, Ireland with Peter Stevenson on July 3-7. Do join us for fairy stories, breathing exercises and a reminder that storytelling is innate in all of us - some people just have better diaphragm support.
MAYFEST LAUNCH PARTY at BRISTOL OLD VIC (Thurs. May 17th @ 9pm)
Fancy a Blind Tiger next weekend?
No, I don't know what that means either. But I DO know that I'll be doing a 20-minute section of EVE SPEAKS at the Bristol Old Vic for Mayfest's Launch Party on Thursday, May 17 @ 9pm.
More info and pretty pictures here.
Also just a note that my friend Rich Allen's show, Garage Band, runs at Mayfest Thursday May 24 - Sunday May 27. I know the guy - it's gonna be savage. More information about his project runs here:
xo
B
P.S. Reflections on Brighton to come, but an "interview" with Fringe Review just appeared here: ahhh, retrospective publicity . . . .
No, I don't know what that means either. But I DO know that I'll be doing a 20-minute section of EVE SPEAKS at the Bristol Old Vic for Mayfest's Launch Party on Thursday, May 17 @ 9pm.
More info and pretty pictures here.
Also just a note that my friend Rich Allen's show, Garage Band, runs at Mayfest Thursday May 24 - Sunday May 27. I know the guy - it's gonna be savage. More information about his project runs here:
xo
B
P.S. Reflections on Brighton to come, but an "interview" with Fringe Review just appeared here: ahhh, retrospective publicity . . . .
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