A Festival 2019

INTRODUCTIONBOOKING & ACCESS INFORMATION After all the excitement and new friends we made last year we’re delighted to bring back A Festival.

A week of new live performance which cuts across art forms, brings different voices to the stage and celebrates artistic adventure.

MONDAY 4 - SUNDAY 10 MARCH

These pieces are personal and social – they connect with things going on in our world.

They’re smart and full of heart and will provide entertaining and thought provoking nights out.

LIVE PERFORMANCE ABOUT LIFE NEW WORK IN PROGRESS OFFERS FOR ARTISTS

TO BOOK TICKETS GO TO THELBT.ORG OR CALL 01484 430528

This year we’re collaborating with Yorkshire Dance to bring you two additional movement workshops at their venue in Leeds as part of their festival Encounters, celebrating women in dance.

To book tickets go to thelbt.org or call 01484 430528.

Kirklees Passport holders can claim £3 off full price tickets on all shows except the Scratch Supper.

Carers are entitled to a complimentary ticket.

There are a limited number of parking spaces for disabled badge holders on Queen Street.

To reserve a wheelchair space in the auditorium or for any access queries please contact our box office.

#AFestivalHuddersfield

All events are held at the Lawrence Batley Theatre.

To book tickets go to thelbt.org or call 01484 430528

The LBT is located on Queen’s Square, Queen Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2SP. For directions and parking information please go to thelbt.org/find-us.

FESTIVAL OFFERS A FESTIVAL SAVER

3 shows = 10% off 4 shows = 15% off

5 shows = 20% off 6 shows = 25% off

*Offers do not apply to free workshops

MONDAY 4 – SUNDAY 10 MARCH Vincent Dance Theatre

A SCRATCH SUPPER

LIVE PERFORMANCE ABOUT LIFE NEW WORK IN PROGRESS OFFERS FOR ARTISTS

TO BOOK TICKETS GO TO THELBT.ORG OR CALL 01484 430528

Monday 4 March 7pm

SHUT DOWN

An evening of new works in progress, sharing food and a chance for the audience to feed into the artists’ process.

Previous participants have included Rose Condo, Make Do Theatre and Front Room Productions. For this year’s line up information please visit thelbt.org.

Shut Down explores the spectrum of modern day masculinity and investigates the pressures, contradictions and confusions of being a man.

Tuesday 5 March 7.30pm

Tickets £7 including pie and peas

Dance, spoken word, rap and real-life testimony collide to ask: what is it like to live as a man today?

ARTIST TOOLKIT

Vincent Dance Theatre’s first ever all male production is timely, humorous and highly charged dance theatre, from one of the UK’s most risk-taking and rigorous choreographers.

Wednesday 6 March 6pm – 7.30pm Start-up skills for artists including an introduction to budgeting, accounts and cashflow with Lynda Hornsby of Dark Horse Theatre; common queries with Technical Manager James Clare and a Q&A with Marketing and Communications Manager Ruth Jones.

Free – booking required

IDENTITY IN PERFORMANCE

Katy Dye

BABY FACE

Thursday 7 March 7pm – 9pm

Wednesday 6 March 7.45pm

Who are we and where do we want to go?

Returning from her hit success at the Edinburgh Fringe awardwinning performance artist, Katy Dye, presents her show about the infantilisation of women.

In this workshop performance maker and artist Ellie Harrison gives you the opportunity to respond practically to the idea of identity - exploring who we are, where we are and where we are going.

Welcome to a world of knee socks, bunches, lollipops, bubblegum and models adopting the childlike expressions of six-year-old girls. In this brave and outlandish performance a grown woman attempts to be your baby to discover if innocence really is as sexy as we’re told it is.

Winner of The Autopsy Award and Lustrum Award 2018. Supported by The Tom Hunter Foundation and Platform.

Join us after the performance for a free post-show discussion Tickets £11 / Under 26s £8

You will be equipped with strategies for generating original material in response to the theme of identity. This might include performance, photography, video, installation and site based work.

Ellie Harrison is a performance maker and artist living in Leeds and working internationally.

Tickets £5

Join us after the performance for a free post-show discussion Tickets £12 - £16 / Under 26s £8

HELLO FROM FURNACE

Friday 8 March 6.15pm – 7.30pm An informal social for artists to come along and meet New Work Producer Gilly Roche and Associate Producer Martha Wilson from Leeds Playhouse. An opportunity to find out more about the new vision for the Playhouse, how to submit your work and how you can engage with their artist development programme Furnace.

Free – booking required

Unsung Collective & Lisa Holdsworth

UNSUNG

Friday 8 March 7.45pm Ada Lovelace. Sophia Jex-Blake. Lilian Bader. Andrea Dunbar.

Unsung explores the untold stories of four pioneering and inspirational female figures from our past, asking why they, and hundreds like them, have been relegated to the footnotes.

They were bold. They caused riots. And it’s about time their stories were told.

Unsung Collective and writer Lisa Holdsworth (Midsomer Murders, Ackley Bridge, Call the Midwife) present a new play about the women who made - or ought to have made – British history.

Tickets £14 / Under 26s £8

CONTINUES

HAVE A (KIND) WORD WITH YOURSELF Saturday 9 March 2pm – 5pm

Join poet Rose Condo in this creative writing session that explores our relationships with our mobile devices.

Through poetry and prose we pause the ‘mindless scroll’ and write through ways to increase our wellbeing. This workshop is suitable for writers at any level of experience, particularly those who seek time to put phones down and pick pens up.

Tickets £5

Fran Bushe Nothing to Declare Productions

Jennifer Lack

NARRATIVELY SATISFYING Saturday 9 March 5.15pm

In her debut show, massive nerd and pathological truthseeker Jennifer Lack plays The Author at a reading of her novel. The plot: Jennifer’s childhood mission to find out what links her grandma and her hero Virginia Woolf.

NARCISSIST IN THE MIRROR Saturday 9 March 6.30pm

A dark comedy about life, ambition and millennial expectation; Narcissus is a love addict, a starving artist and a lost soul searching for self-worth.

This is theatrical storytelling (with jokes) about survival and the anxiety of influence.

Laced with acerbic wit, punchy dialogue and intricate spoken word, Narcissist In The Mirror is an honest account of selfexploration, as rip roaring as it is poignant and heartfelt.

Tickets £8

Tickets £12 / Under 26s £8

Jennifer’s quest challenges her to battle grief and asks the question: do we really write our own destinies?

Rose Condo

Keisha Thompson

THE EMPATHY EXPERIMENT

MAN ON THE MOON

Sunday 10 March 6pm

Is empathy facing extinction? Are mobile phones to blame?

Multiple slam winning poet Rose Condo returns with her latest spoken word show. Embarking on a Day of No Mobile Phones, Rose explores tech addiction and compassion using herself as the test subject…think Dr Jekyll meets Dr Seuss.

Join Rose in the final hour of her experiment as she madly tries to capture data, record findings, navigate digital withdrawal and prove her theory that empathy can be saved.

Join us after the performance for a free post-show discussion Tickets £12 / Under 26s £8

AD LIBIDO

Saturday 9 March 8pm Fran wants to fix sex. No matter how many wonder-cures she tries, how many trips to the doctor or offers of help from friends, she doesn’t feel like her fire’s been lit. Sometimes it even hurts.

Join Fran on this “relentlessly hilarious” (The Stage) quest, with songs, as she pursues a satisfying sexlife. Expect toe-tapping tunes, a magic penis and a visit to sex camp. Oh, and dolphins.

Join us after the performance for a free post-show discussion Tickets £14 / Under 26s £8

Sunday 10 March 7.45pm

The award-winning Man On The Moon is a journey through space and time, fuelled by love, fear and Afrofuturism.

Keisha communicates with her reclusive dad through books, letters and symbols. But when the letters stop coming she is forced to venture into his world.

With the use of poetry, looped sounds and storytelling, this piece explores the impact that mental health can have on the family dynamic, particularly within the context of the Black British experience.

Tickets £14 / Under 26s £8

TO BOOK TICKETS GO TO THELBT.ORG OR CALL 01484 430528

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE… For more workshops and festival events take a look below at Yorkshire Dance’s Encounters which runs in Leeds from 8-10 March.

PERFORMANCES WORKSHOPS

MON 4 MARCH 7pm

A Scratch Supper

Main Stage & Others

Shut Down

Main Stage

Artist Toolkit

Meeting Room

Baby Face

Main Stage

Friday 8 March, 2.00pm - 4.00pm

Saturday 9 March, 3.30pm - 5.00pm

Identity in Performance

Attic Theatre

The Mountain and Other Tales of She Transformed workshop with Nicola Singh

Feminist Dance Making talk

Queenie’s Coffee Shop

Open to all ages and abilities, everyone welcome

Unsung

Main Stage

Have a (Kind) Word With Yourself

Meeting Room

5.15pm

Narratively Satisfying

Attic Theatre

6.30pm

Narcissist In The Mirror

Syngenta Cellar

Multi-disciplinary artist Nicola Singh leads a workshop featuring gentle moving, meditation and drawing tasks inspired by mountain imagery. It is based on her collaboration in Hannah Buckley’s performance, The Mountain and Other Tales of She Transformed, which also features in the Encounters festival.

How does a feminist awareness impact on making dance in our current climate?

What inspires, enrages and concerns feminist makers? Join dance artists Rhiannon Faith, Fernanda MuñozNewsome, Eleanor Sikorski, Madeline Shann and Beth Cassani to discuss how feminist thinking and activism impacts on the work these ‘silly, serious and brave contemporary female heroines’ create.

8pm

Ad Libido

Main Stage

The Empathy Experiment

Syngenta Cellar

with Jamila Johnson-Small and Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome

Man On The Moon

Main Stage

A workshop for people, practitioners and professional dance artists

TUE 5 MARCH 7.30pm WED 6 MARCH 6pm - 7.30pm 7.45pm THU 7 MARCH 7pm-9pm

FRI 8 MARCH 6.15pm - 7.30pm Hello from Furnace 7.45pm SAT 9 MARCH 2pm – 5pm

SUN 10 MARCH 6pm 7.45pm

TO BOOK TICKETS THELBT.ORG OR CALL 01484 430528 GO TO

For anyone interested in dance and feminism

Sunday 10 March, 10.00am - 4.00pm

Unruly Bodies

An extraordinary opportunity to spend a day working with two renowned dance artists and a company of others, exploring ideas around dance, intimacy and the ways our bodies communicate.

Box Office 0113 243 9867 yorkshiredance.com #EncountersLeeds