Avant Garde – Archive

The conversations around Money started before Easter last year, so before Northern Rock, but after the Enron scandal.

What is the nature of the interactions we experience in ‘cyberspace’ and ‘real space’? Where does this experience reside in the individual?

That Night Follows Day was commissioned by Flemish theatre company Victoria and written and directed by Tim Etchells as part of a series of productions performed by children for adults.

Director of The Rain Emperor, Judy Jacob talks about the background to the project and the musical legacy of her late father, Robert Jacob.

Meyerhold was in search of a new kind of theatre; one that could widen its emotional potential to express new thoughts and ideas and reflect the times in which he was living.

It’s fascinating when the real world comes into the theatre. But to what degree can you make it come in realistically?

The very idea of distilling thousands of years of human evolution into a two hour performance is itself a critique of the writing and presentation of history.

Rethinking the ways in which human bodies interact with their technological surroundings is key to Stelarc’s exploration of the cyborg.