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SPRING 2012
MARCH
SPOKEN WORD White Rabbit presents:
ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? MYSTERY
PERFORMANCE
welcome
As soon as you come down the stairs at The Basement you know the unexpected awaits. In our eighth season of new performance we present a host of new surprises and exhilarating experiences. We are delighted to be part of Brighton Festival
with ground-breaking artists travelling from across Europe to present their work at The Basement. A newly commissioned immersive experience, Domestic will lead audience members through the venue, transformed into an atmospheric series of rooms and unsettling interactions. There are exciting partnerships with South East Dance and Lighthouse, and a programme of fresh new work launching our east.by.south.east project. For the first time we will work with Brighton & Hove Children’s Festival, presenting some fantastic companies that make exciting and original work for children and families. We look forward to seeing you.
Helen Medland Artistic Director
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SCRATCH / UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Date: Tues 13th March Doors: 7:30pm Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions)
Various Artists Dates: Wed 7th March Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: FREE
An evening of original storytelling in the White Rabbit’s curious underground burrow. We reveal puzzling tales by local writers and us, performed in an otherworldly topsy turvy tearoom. FREE cakes, treats, competitions and prizes, and teapot cocktails from the bar. Interested writers please submit stories of around 1000 words to areyousittingcomfortably@live.com
The Basement’s Scratch / Under Construction events, presenting short excerpts from brand new performances, have proved hugely popular with audiences keen to flex their critical muscles and help artists develop new work. This is a fantastic opportunity to see innovative contemporary performance in the making. The event is free and all are
“storytelling made supremely sexy” **** Latest 7 PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
welcome to come and give their own opinions through the chaired discussions.
SUPPER CLUB
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Date: Sat 10th March Doors: 7.30pm til late Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions)
“an enchanted night” **** Total Theatre
Supper Club is The Basement’s signature evening of bitesize morsels of tasty live art, digital installation, experimental performance and live music. Taking place throughout all The Basement’s atmospheric spaces, Supper Club is a smorgasbord of treats for all of the senses, with some of the most exciting performances and music from across the UK and Europe. Grab a drink and a tasty bite to eat at the bar then let the night unfold, we plot a Saturday night for you, but you won’t know what’s on the menu until it’s served. More tequila and cherries than meat and two veg. If you are interested in performing at Supper Club contact info@thebasement.uk.com
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PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
QUIET ACT OF DESTRUCTION
YOU LOOK LIKE ANTS
New Art Club
Stuart Silver
Date: Thurs 15th March Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions)
Date: Thurs 22nd March Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions)
Edinburgh Spotlight Best Comedy Show 2010 winners take you on an energetic, hilarious rampage through the placid Cambridgeshire village of Meldreth. Against an exhilarating soundtrack, chaos bubbles in the church tearooms and revolution leaks from under the post office door. Farm parks and yoghurt become sources of emotional break downs and along the way new rules are created, bent, broken and ignored in a vain attempt to take control of the situation.
An intimate, humorous, tragi-ballad. A conversational and textually rich epic journey where Stuart seeks to get a hold on what life is really about, under the crush of great advice. With ukulele when you least expect it. And when you expect it. Bringing us his first solo show after a 10 year Perrier Award-winning, BAFTA nominated partnership with Kim Noble, a technically stripped back, musical Stuart Silver returns to The Basement with his new criticallyacclaimed show.
‘Downright funny’ (New York Times), ‘Intelligently idiotic and unwaveringly entertaining’ ***** (Big Issue)
‘Its lurches of logic keep your head buzzing long after it ends.’ **** The Times MUSIC
MUSIC
POLICE DOG HOGAN
JUKEBOX FURY
Date: Sat 17th March Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions)
Date: Friday 30th March Doors: 7:30pm til late Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions)
Police Dog Hogan are a high-energy and eclectic seven-piece, combining fiddle, banjo, mandolin, bass, drums and guitars with knockout four-part harmonies in an exuberant medley of country, pop, folk, and rocking urban bluegrass. Veteran DJ Johnnie Walker describes their gigs as “a really good, fun time”, with songs that veer from the wistful and poetic to flat-out, foot-stomping tales of doomed barbecues, French mustard and falling in love on a Tennessee highway.
Sitting somewhere between a guerrilla cinema and pop-up gig is the audiovisual medley of The Basement’s newest regular night. Jukebox Fury features a live B-movie soundtrack project setting the scene, and a score of eclectic Brighton musicians guiding you through the plot’s twist and turns. Look out for cameo appearances, quirky music videos, eye-popping performances and more, with dancing until the curtain falls. Guest curated by Bleeding Heart Recordings.
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APRIL
BRIGHTON & HOVE CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
SUPPER CLUB Date: Sat 7th April Doors: 7.30pm til late Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions) Supper Club is The Basement’s signature evening of bitesize morsels of tasty live art, digital installation, experimental performance and live music. Taking place throughout all The Basement’s atmospheric spaces, Supper Club is a smorgasbord of treats for all of the senses, with some of the most exciting performances and music from across the UK and Europe.
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SCRATCH / UNDER CONSTRUCTION Various Artists Dates: Wed 4th April Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: FREE The Basement’s Scratch / Under Construction events, presenting short excerpts from brand new performances, have proved hugely popular with audiences keen to flex their critical muscles and help artists develop new work. This is a fantastic opportunity to see innovative contemporary performance in the making. The event is free and all are welcome to come and give their own opinions through the chaired discussions. If you are interested in presenting works-in-progress contact info@thebasement.uk.com
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Grab a drink and a tasty bite to eat at the bar then let the night unfold, we plot a Saturday night for you but you won’t know what’s on the menu until it’s served. More tequila and cherries than meat and two veg. If you are interested in performing at Supper Club contact info@thebasement.uk.com
Brighton & Hove Children’s Festival returns from 6th-15th April 2012 with a ten day multi artform festival for children under 11 and their families. This year the festival is challenging families to take part in a series of events, performances and workshops all inspired by our theme of bravery. For more information please visit www.thechildrensfestival.co.uk SPOKEN WORD White Rabbit presents:
ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? MISCHIEF Date: Tues 10th April Doors: 2.00pm & 4.30pm Tickets: Adults £6, Children £4 White Rabbit invites big kids and small kids to our storytelling teaparty, where tales of mayhem, mischief and magic will be told. FREE cakes and treats, games, competitions and prizes, plus a Dastardly Dance Contest. Interested writers please submit stories of around 1000 words to areyousittingcomfortably@live.com “an enchanted night” **** Total Theatre
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James Dunbar & Faith Dodkins (Brightonshed)
BATTLESHIP ISLAND Date: Wed 11th - Fri 13th April Doors: 2.00pm, 4.00pm, 6.00pm Tickets: Adults £4, Children £3 (ages 7 - 11, one adult per child/group) Taking young audiences on a thrilling and thought-provoking journey using soundscapes, visual imagery and live performance installation, Battleship Island tells the story of friendship, community and courage. Audiences will be invited to venture into the unknown, becoming immersed in the islands’ fantasy, meeting its inhabitants and hearing their stories. Battleship Island is a new interactive theatre piece being created with and for children and their families which draws on the fragility and beauty of the world we all live in.
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PERFORMANCE
DOUBLE BILL
I LIKE THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAIR
Date: Wed 18th April Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions)
Greg Wohead Welcome to Greg’s bedroom in Mesquite, Texas, 1998. The Cranberries’ No Need to Argue is on repeat, there’s a pile of dirty laundry in the corner and he can’t stop thinking about Sara. In this performance Greg tells you—from the perspective of a geeky teenager—the true story of the night he took a chance. I like the way you wear your hair is a solo show about stomach butterflies, private thoughts and marching band conveyed through simple storytelling and projected drawings.
SUPERBARD & THE SEXY QUANTUM STORIES Superbard From a young age, Superbard was told of the time when he would be sent back to the past, to heal the world through storytelling. He would build the future utopia. However, when at the age of 24 he and his dog Enoc were sent back in a ceremony of fanfares that had higher television figures than the royal wedding, he realised that the history books were very good at the ‘what happened’, but they had a curious lack of detail as to the ‘how’. He’s fairly sure that his second Edinburgh hit show, Superbard and The Sexy Quantum Stories is not the answer.
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BEASTIE Lone Twin Date: Sat 14th - Sun 15th April Doors: 10.00am, 1.00pm, 4.00pm Tickets: Adults £6, Children £4 In cities and towns across the country people have been seeing a mysterious creature. Some say they’ve seen it at night, others say they’ve seen it on the bus. One boy said it eats shoes, but one thing is for certain – nobody knows what it is. Beastie is a groundbreaking real-world adventure for children. Adults gawp, some run away – if you come face to face with Beastie what will you do? Beastie is a unique experience for children presented by Lone Twin, one of the UK’s most-loved and respected makers of innovative new performance. Touching, thought-provoking and great fun, this is an experience that will last in memories for a long time.
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MUSIC
JUKEBOX FURY Date: Friday 27th April Doors: 7:30pm til late Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions) Sitting somewhere between a guerrilla cinema and pop-up gig is the audiovisual medley of The Basement’s newest regular night. Jukebox Fury features a live B-movie soundtrack project setting the scene, and a score of eclectic Brighton musicians guiding you through the plot’s twist and turns. Look out for cameo appearances, quirky music videos, eye-popping performances and more, with dancing until the curtain falls. Presented in association with the Music and Sonic Media MA at University of Sussex.
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BRIGHTON FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
BRIGHTON FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
Following the sell-out success of The Basement’s programme in the last two festivals, we are delighted to be working with Brighton Festival once again in 2012. Complementing the festival’s programme of exceptional music, theatre and dance from across the globe, and responding to the guest directorhsip of Venessa Redgrave. We present a packed programme of performance that pushes at the edges of art forms, offering audiences experiences that will challenge, intrigue and entertain.
PERFORMANCE
Brian Lobel (USA / UK)
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Various artists
DOMESTIC Dates: Sat 5th – Wed 9th May Times: 3.30pm – 7.50pm timed appointments every 20 minutes Limited capacity: advance booking essential Tickets: £20 OVER 18s ONLY Commissioned by The Basement Take a disquieting, journey through The Basement, transformed into a surrealist cinematic collage of domestic rooms. This intimate, one-off experience leads an intrepid audience of eight people through a carefully curated series of interactions, playing with the audiences’ experience and exploring the unspoken emotions and politics of our daily lives. Domestic brings together six new works by the UK’s most innovative and intriguing performers. You will emerge knowing there really is no place like home.
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Sat 12th – Sun 13th May Sat 12 May: 11am – 5pm Sun 13 May: 2pm FREE Jubilee Library
Brian Lobel adds a devilish twist to the age-old question ‘Can I have a minute of your time?’ Carpe Minuta Prima playfully explores the value of our time and what it means to sign away your soul. Enter his booth in Jubilee Library on Saturday to sell him a minute of your life for £1. Contributions are recorded and will be sold at the Unveiling of Souls on Sunday afternoon. Will you walk away with a minute of a stranger’s life? Developed at BAC and The Basement
Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth
PERFORMER/AUDIENCE Dates: Sat 12th May Starts: 7.30pm Tickets: £10.00 Co-presented by The Basement & Lighthouse Working at the edge of performance and film, Forsyth and Pollard celebrate popular culture through the re-enactment and re-staging of iconic cultural moments. Comedian Iain Lee presents a new piece that reinterprets the 1975 performance by American Dan Graham Performer/Audience F**k Off. This is followed by screenings of a selection of Forsyth and Pollard’s film works including Do you love me like I love you? commissioned by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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BRIGHTON FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT DANCE
CONDENSED CHOREOGRAPHIES Dates: Wed 16th May Starts: 7.30pm Tickets: £15.00
east.by.south.east Presenting three of the finest new works developed in the East and South East regions in partnership between The Basement, Brighton; The Showroom, Chichester; The Junction, Cambridge & Colchester Arts Centre.
Co-presented by The Basement & South East Dance Three works explore how contemporary dance practices push performers to their limits, where mind and body are driven to extreme and unexpected action. Daniel Linehan’s Not About Everything is a highly-charged yet funny choreography. This critically-acclaimed solo combines intense physical effort and mesmerising cyclical language. Dog Kennel Hill Project’s The Devil & the Details is a provocative deconstruction of the creative process, ending in a spectacular coup de théâtre.
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PERFORMANCE
Bootworks Theatre (UK)
Made in China (UK / USA)
PREDATOR UK Premiere
WE HOPE THAT YOU ARE HAPPY (WHY WOULD WE LIE?)
Dates: Thurs 17th & Fri 18th May Starts: 7.00pm Tickets: £8 or 2 east.by.south.east shows for £14
Dates: Thus 17th May Starts: 8.30pm Tickets: £8 or 2 east.by.south.east shows for £14
After sneaking downstairs to tape the film Predator one night, five-year-old Andy and his brother began creating their own version. Unfortunately they never finished what they started. Now, with your help and imagination, Andy gets to complete this 20 year work-in-progress, recreating this sci-fi action classic by playing with remote control cars, action men and puppets.
Jess is stuck. Her lifelong friend, Chris, can’t help. And the world is falling apart. Luckily Jess and Chris have a cooler full of beer, a goofy rapport, and a sincere desire to make you, the audience, happy. Or so they claim… This is a hilarious and unsettling examination of what it means to be an unwitting consumer in a hyper communicative world.
Lee Meir’s Translation Included is a witty, touching solo in which daily gestures are transformed into a rich language of movement infecting the whole body. This event is part of an on-going partnership between The Basement and South East Dance, exploring fertile territories that lie in between the disciplines of dance and contemporary performance.
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BRIGHTON FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT PERFORMANCE
east.by.south.east
Laura Kalauz & Martin Schick (Argentina / Switzerland)
PERFORMANCE
CMMN SNS PRJCT
Sylvia Rimat (UK / Germany)
UK Premiere
I GUESS IF THE STAGE EXPLODED…
Dates: Thurs 24th May Starts: 7.30pm Tickets: £10
Dates: Fri 18th May Starts: 7.30pm Tickets: £8 or 2 east.by.south.east shows for £14 Performance maker Sylvia Rimat follows the aspirational and possibly impossible goal to present a show never to be forgotten by its audience members – not a single one. By introducing memory tasks and techniques and applying them to the stage situation, the audience is systematically trained to remember – hopefully forever. I Guess If The Stage Exploded... draws on presence and sight, on what happens in our brain when we create memories, and our urge to be special and commemorated.
PERFORMANCE
Marcia Farquhar
Split Guitars & Other Tales Dates: Sun 20th May Starts: Half-hourly slots from 2.00pm – 9.30pm Tickets: £10.00 Location: Brighton Marina Limited capacity: advance booking essential
In this witty and engaging ode to commerce and desire the theatre becomes an arena of free trade and adventure, a space between voyeurism and participation. Asking what we want and what we would be prepared to gamble to get it, it provides a poignant meditation on the relative values of cold hard cash, performance and human experience. This is a partnership between Gessnerallee, Zurich and The Basement, Brighton facilitating the international exchange of new performance. PERFORMANCE
Public in Private (France)
Commissioned & presented by The Basement as part of Lone Twin’s Boat Project
ALLEGE
This many storied traveller and doyenne of chance, invites you to join her, cast adrift on the boat of timber treasures. Only six at a time can climb aboard and listen to the yarns of split guitars, broken cricket bats and wooden spoons. Direct the winds of fate to a story, chosen from hundreds that might have special significance for you. Commissioned in response to Lone Twin’s boat of memories this intimate performance delves into the rich personal and social histories of objects. Enjoy lilting strains from Marcia’s sailor-boy band and mackerel fresh from the deep.
Dates: Sat 26th May Starts: 7.30pm Tickets: £10.00
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UK Premiere
Exploring the absurdity and sad humour of people constantly making life difficult for themselves, Allege is a game of expectation and attention in which obsession and chaos are held in perpetual conflict. Clément Layes is one of Europe’s brightest and quirkiest young choreographers, masterfully balancing an odd mix of circus virtuosity, dance and philosophy.
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JUNE
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
MUSIC
JUKEBOX FURY Date: Friday 1st June Doors: 7:30pm til late Tickets: £6 (£4) Sitting somewhere between a guerrilla cinema and pop-up gig is the audiovisual medley of The Basement’s newest regular night. Jukebox Fury features a live B-movie soundtrack project setting the scene, and a score of eclectic Brighton musicians guiding you through the plot’s twist and turns. Look out for cameo appearances, quirky music videos, eye-popping performances and more, with dancing until the curtain falls. Guest Curator to be announced, check www.thebasement. uk.com for further details
SPOKEN WORD
SUPPER CLUB
White Rabbit presents:
Date: Sat 9th June Doors: 7.30pm til late Tickets: £8 (£6 concs)
ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? ADVENTURE
Supper Club is The Basement’s signature evening of bite-size morsels of tasty live art, digital installation, experimental performance and live music. Taking place throughout all The Basement’s atmospheric spaces, Supper Club is a smorgasbord of treats for all of the senses, with some of the most exciting performances and music from across the UK and Europe. Grab a drink and a tasty bite to eat at the bar then let the night unfold, we plot a Saturday night for you but you won’t know what’s on the menu until it’s served. More tequila and cherries than meat and two veg.
Date: Tues 12th June Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £6 (£4 concs) The theme of our summer Garden Party is ADVENTURE. We invite you to pack a picnic, blankets and cushions – (we might be on the move!) we’ll provide stories, madcap games, cakes and cucumber sandwiches. There will be a prize for the most original outfit (think Ascot meets Alice in Wonderland!) sparklers, ice-cream and music, what more could you want? Interested writers please submit stories of around 1000 words to areyousittingcomfortably@live.com
PERFORMANCE
SCRATCH / UNDER CONSTRUCTION Various Artists Dates: Wed 6th June Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: FREE The Basement’s Scratch / Under Construction events, presenting short excerpts from brand new performances, have proved hugely popular with audiences keen to flex their critical muscles and help artists develop new work. This is a fantastic opportunity to see innovative contemporary performance in the making. The event is free and all are welcome to come and give their own opinions through the chaired discussions.
east.by.south.east The Basement is pleased to announce the launch of east.by.south.east, a two-year Arts Council Funded project that will strengthen the infrastructure for the creation, presentation and touring of live art and contemporary performance practices in the East and South-East regions. The project is a partnership with The Junction, Colchester Arts Centre and The Showroom, Chichester, as well as organisations in Europe.
Workshops: This Summer we present a programme of three-day workshops enriching and inspiring artists working in performance. These will be lead by some of the most influential and established international practitioners. See our website for dates and confirmation of workshop leaders. Residencies: The project offers subsidised residency opportunities for artists with over two years of professional experience, incorporating critical support, mentoring and accommodation. For further details contact Abby Butcher on info@thebasement.uk.com
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Residency Programme
Our programme of residencies supports the creation of new works by artists from across the UK. To find out more about residency opportunities, please email info@thebasement.uk.com
Supported artists
The Basement supports some of the UK’s most outstanding early-career artists nurturing new creations and sustainable careers with a national and international profile.
30 Bird Productions The company spent their second residency period at The Basement developing 14 Tables, an interactive multi disciplinary piece set around the dinner table. 30 Bird creates site specific, inter-disciplinary performance and live art projects that create unique experiences for the audience.
Sylvia Rimat is a Bristol based performance maker, originally from Germany. Her work
Greg Wohead
Greg featured in our December Supper Club, where he presented the intelligent and touching work, I like the way you wear your hair. We invited him down for a residency to develop the piece further. In the work, Greg uses a hand held projector to tell a story of teenage memories, reminiscing about the night he snuck out of his bedroom to meet a girl.
Brian Lobel had a very busy autumn, performing across the UK and beyond. He will
Rachel Mars
London based artist Rachel Mars presented Unto Us A Child Is Born in our Autumn programme, and has been back at The Basement investigating why she resorts to humour as part of her new show.
Victoria Melody is currently developing her new one-woman show Major Tom with her director Ursula Martinez. The show follows Victoria’s adventures as she enters the world of competitive beauty and attempts to get her basset hound into Crufts. She will be touring her first show Northern Soul this year. www.victoriamelody.co.uk
Jo Bannon
After performing Foley in our Autumn 2011 programme, Jo returns to The Basement to work on her new show. Exposure is the beginning of an investigation into how we look, how we are looked at and if we can ever really be seen. The piece is informed by her relationship to having albinism.
Me and the Machine are dividing their time between the UK and Spain, developing a new site specific project that uses a hand held projector to take their audience on a journey around an abandoned house. www.meandthemachine.co.uk
Martha Brown Brighton university graduate Martha will be spending time in The Basement later in the year to work on 14 Smiles, the one-woman show created for her Performance and Visual Arts degree. The show combines live art, stand up comedy and plenty of buckets.
non zero one are quickly establishing themselves as one of the brightest emergent theatre
Simply Told
The company began making The Turing Project in October 2011, and will be spending time in residence developing the piece. The work is based on the life and work of the father of Artificial Intelligence, Alan Turing. Simply Told use magic, technology, storytelling, & installation to create worlds of wonder where the audience is free to dwell or to roam.
Rachel Henson creates flick books that navigate the audience through their surroundings,
Martin Lewton The Basement has been supporting the development of E2, Martin Lewton’s new site-responsive work, in which a political prisoner is awaiting execution. Martin’s previous show, Billy Budd Sailor, won Star of Brighton Festival in 2011.
Patternfight Performance are new recruits to the Supported Artist programme.
examines themes of memory and personal histories. Sylvia will be presenting I Guess If The Stage Exploded in Brighton Festival this May and touring the show to venues nationally in the Autumn. www.sylviarimat.blogspot.com/
commemorating his 10 year cancer diagnosis this year as he tours Ball & Other Funny Stories About Cancer. www.blobelwarming.com
companies in the UK. Their show at the Bush Theatre, This Is Where We Got To When You Came In earned them excellent reviews. The company have been commissioned to create a site-specific piece that will take place in and around the National Theatre building. www.nonzeroone.com
blurring the line between the real and imagined space. Rachel presented a new commission for White Night, and will be working on an Olympic commission for the 2012 games. www.rachelhenson.com
They use illustration, comedy, live art and animation in their work. They will be presenting Conference of Strange at Sprint Festival and Chichester Showroom this season. www.patternfightperformance.com/