Performance resources on the web

• UbuWeb: A repository for visual, concrete and sound poetry. Over the years, UbuWeb has embraced all forms of the avant-garde and beyond. Its parameters continue to expand in all directions.
• Policy Exchange: “an independent think tank whose mission is to develop and promote new policy ideas which will foster a free society based on strong communities, personal freedom, limited government, national self-confidence and an enterprise culture.”
• CONV net.web: “experimental electronics - electroacoustics - minimalism - phonography - improvisation - sound art - unmusic”. Download a wide range of experimental music released under creative commons license. A very interesting sound repository for performance sound designers.
• Article 19: Beautifully designed independant site on contemporary dance featuring exclusive videos of performance, interviews, reviews and user interaction.
• html_butoh: Ursula Endlicher’s digital butoh performance: “html_butoh is choreographed by the real-time html structure of the “Global Top 500″ websites as seen through the prism of the html-movement-library”.

Performance videos on the web

Dance General

• Fabien Prioville (4.40) : The brothers Bernard. Interesting work in progress dance video.
• Earth (8.06) : Third part of the dance film “Short meditations on three elements” by director Frank N. Featuring ex-Pina-Bausch-dancers Chrystel Guillebeaud, Geraldo Si, and korean dancer In-Jung Jun.
• Ritual in Transfigured Time (14.27) : A breath-taking piece of film by ‘mother of the avant-garde’ Maya Deren (1917-1961)

Stelarc

• Stelarc’s Robotic 3rd Hand (3.00) : Early Stelarc performance- 1992 at TVU warehouse for a TV broadcast. featuring Stelarc’s robotic 3rd hand.
• Dinner with Stelarc (45.00) : 2004 interview at Trans Vision by Shannon Larratt, originally published on BMEzine.com

Pina Bausch

• Cafe Muller (1.26) : Very short clip from Pina Bausch’s famous piece.
• The Rite of Spring (7.24) : Clip from Wuppertal Tanztheater’s production of “The Rite of Spring”.

Rotozaza

• Romcom (1.00) : Footage from a performance of Romcom.
• Five in the Morning (6.09) : Some footage from the Rotozaza show Five in the Morning. (Read my interview with Ant and Silvia of Rotozaza for discussions of both Romcom and Five in the Morning).

Hijikata Tatsumi

• Hijkata documentary (3.26) : Documentary in Japanese about the life and work of Hijikata, in this clip you get to see, Hijikata in performance. Would like to clarify the source and title of the peformance.

Ono Kazuo

• Kazuo dancing at age 94 (3.51) : Ono Kazuo one of the founding fathers of Butoh. See this fantastic piece of video footage of Ono in rehearsal.

Pay-What-You-Can Theatre Tickets

While we need full-tarif audiences to keep theatre alive, the theatre should also be open to people on lower incomes. To that end I have begun compiling a list of pay-what-you-can nights in theatres around London. If your theatre has a similar discount scheme please contact LTB to get it listed here.

• Arcola Theatre: “Arcola Theatre’s Pay What You Can nights are for those who find the regular price of theatre tickets off-putting. Pay What You Can tickets are available on most Tuesdays.”
• Gate Theatre: Happy Mondays - “On Monday nights a limited number of tickets are pay-what-you-can. These tickets can be booked and are sold on a first=come first-serve basis.”
• Tricycle Theatre: Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoons are ‘Pay What You Can’ at the Tricycle. These are available in person on day of performance for the first 30 seats.
• Riverside Studios: A variety of discounted tickets are available with prior enquiery, these range from Standby Tickets Early Bird (up to 33% off), Cheap Tuesdays (”Cheap Tuesday tickets are available for some performances.”) and general concession prices.