Author: Kate Halsall

  • Contemplating: 18th July

    For the culmination of his year-long project on the Soundhub scheme, composer Robert Szymanek directs and performs Contemplating, a concert-spectacular which brings together Robert’s music with film, theatre, art and light projections to explore the inner world of thoughts, feelings and human insights. Through new songs and instrumental pieces, Contemplating takes us on a journey around a myriad…

  • happenstance

    Happenstance creates a series of inter and un-connected performances based around the surrealist cut up technique (exquisite corpse) and chance interactions with the audience, with commissions by composer Edward Jessen and sound artist Angie Atmadjaja. The project begins at Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax in residency with Angie Atmadjaja, 24-25th July, with full performances from the…

  • Les Moutons des Panurge (“The Sheep of Panurge”) is based on the fourth book of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais. The story goes that Pantagruel is traveling by ship with Panurge when their boat meets with a merchant ship carrying sheep. The merchants make fun of Panurge, but Panurge is able to buy one…