Showcases

A chance to see what’s happening in the NorthWest…

  • Type of work/venue/location: dance festival, 3 nights

In the tradition of the long-running emergency performance platform (a calendar event of marathon proportions and lunatic aspirations) we turn our attention to dance. Turn is a 3 evening event, featuring [more…]

Turn
  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, black box, dance

A duet like no other, a girl dances with her bedclothes. Exploring the mysterious lands that addiction and dependence can lead you into. A work in progress showing. [more…]

Turn Showcase 4: Maria Malone, Chris Murray and Marcus Drummond - “Cover”
  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, black box, dance

Newly formed Maelstrom Dance Company combines dance theatre and their own quirky, unique view of the world. Their first work Epilogue finds four women thrown together in an unknown place, [more…]

Turn Showcase 3: Maelstrom Dance - “Epilogue”
  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, black box dance,

“The intense emotional and affective relationships described in the past as “non-sexual” cannot be said to exist today: modern heterosexual men can be buddies, but unless drunk they cannot touch [more…]

Turn Showcase 2: Resonance Dance Company “On Even Ground”
  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, promenade, black box, dance

Originally performing at Turn under the name Voidance, The GEF House Experiment is made up of Julia Griffin, Kate Engineer and Bridget Fiske. Griffin, Engineer and Fiske (GEF) came together [more…]

Turn Showcase 1: The GEF House Experiment - “Three Crows on the Road” *Turn Prize Winners*
  • Type of work/venue/location: annual two-evening festival

Method Lab is one of greenroom and hÅb’s co-produced initiatives for emerging artists. Artists receive a package of support including a small commission, rehearsal space, mentoring, peer support and access to [more…]

Method Lab
  • Type of work/venue/location: Annual platform and networking event at greenroom

North West artists working in live art, contemporary performance, time-based media and interdisciplinary arts are invited to submit proposals of short pieces of work, works in progress or extracts of [more…]

Emergency
  • Type of work/venue/location: Biennial (tbc) outdoor, sited festival.

A micro-festival of incidental intervention and sited performance, with a hint of mischief! Chance encounters, random occurrences and risky ventures around and about the city centre. Cheeky, thought-provoking and sometimes [more…]

Hazard