July
9th August – Dominique le Gendre UK based composer Dominique Le Gendre was born in Trinidad where she lived until the age of 19, at which point she left to study music in Paris. She trained as a classical guitarist with Ramon de Herrera...
Blind Date Blind Date premiered in 2007 and consisted of six short pieces composed and written by 6 seperate “couples” who met at various events organised by Tête à Tête . Anger Words: Meredith Oakes Music: Julian...
Broken Voices presented by Artprojx and curated by Clare Fitzpatrick Broken Voices is a multimedia performance by British artist Terry Smith in collaboration with the acclaimed sound designer and composer Ian Dearden and the internationally...
DREAMLIVES is a theatrical exploration of Lieder by Richard Strauss, Berg and Schoenberg that investigates the explosive impact of Sigmund Freud’s ideas on the music of his time. Staged in the manner of a psychoanalytical regression, this...
Drive Ride Walk is an urban story influenced and inspired by the multicultural East End and the City of London. A company of ten performers lead you on three interwoven journeys, each one centering around one form of transport: car, bicycle and foot....
Words and Music: Susie Self Heroic Women is an action-packed opera that asks what it means to be truly heroic. The “cast” includes real and fantastical women such as Boudicca and Pope Joan. The ordinary women who serve each famous...
This one act absurdist piece based on the Eugene Ionesco’s hilarious classic satirizes those who value conformism over independent thought. It follows two couples as they communicate, or rather fail to, and the ensuing chaos of random words and...
Debussy was long fascinated by Poe’s stories, and struggled for at least the final decade of his life to find a way to capture the essence and tone of Poe’s tale, leaving a series of three libretti and about 25 minutes’ worth of...
A woman brings a man back to her flat after a night at a bar. Or she’s watching an old romantic movie while chatting on the phone to her best friend, remembering how she got those bruises. Or she’s sitting in her flat with nothing to do...
August
9th August – Dominique le Gendre UK based composer Dominique Le Gendre was born in Trinidad where she lived until the age of 19, at which point she left to study music in Paris. She trained as a classical guitarist with Ramon de Herrera who...