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Upcoming Performance Dates

UK

Hold Me Until You Break
At Brunel Museum tunnel/shaft with Björk-collaborator Manu Delago playing the Hang, 8 September 8pm.

Meet Me Far From Gravity
Pop-up accidental dance performances in public spaces across 8 London boroughs, 15 August until 13 September. A New Audiences London commission.

 

SWITZERLAND

Transform – Bottlefed presents: The Hangover-Lounge, 4.12.2011, 5-8pm

As part of Transform, an interdisciplinary art project with consequences at Gutenbergstrasse 10a, Bern, we present ‘The Hangover Lounge’: Following the opening night of the space, we will work with the day-after-feeling that might be encompassed by a hangover. Party leftovers won’t be cleaned away and guests are welcome to share and celebrate hangovers of any kind.

On Sunday 4.12.2011 from 17-20h, Bottlefed invites audiences to the Lounge and its different activities ranging from foot massages, hearty soups to bloody maries and, above all, exclusive one-on-one advice by our hangover expert Figo: Figo celebrates like no other and doesn’t know hangovers: Predisposition or the right means to avoid them? Come along and get advice!

http://www.transform.bz/

Pure Pleasure Seekers
Research residency at Tuchlaube Aarau in November/December. Work in progress sharings on 3 and 9 December 2011 at 10pm. In collaboration with Fabian Kalker. More info on: http://www.tuchlaube.ch/index.php?nav=19&add=201112&evt=870

Hold Me Until You Break
Festival Heimspiel 2012, Dampfzentrale Bern. Performances in collaboration with Philipp Moll (www.philippmoll.com) and Lawrence Williams.
Saturday 25 February 2012, 8pm & Sunday 26 February 2012, 7pm

More info on: http://www.dampfzentrale.ch

 

NORWAY

Feitaboogie Improvisation Festival – Bergen
HUSET youth performance project – Askoy

 

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Audition opportunity

 

3 dance performers experienced in Tango and Contemporary dance wanted for Cross-Borough, site-specific performance project in London

We are currently looking for three performers experienced in Tango, contact improvisation and contemporary dance, to work on an exciting commission that will run over the months of July-September across London. We will hold an audition on 3 July in London and are inviting eligible artists to apply.

Project Description
Bottlefed have been commissioned to create and perform 4 site-specific pieces to be presented over 16 public locations across 8 London boroughs. The work will be a combination of Tango Argentino and Bottlefed’s own blend of contemporary dance and theatre styles.

Rehearsals will run over 2 weeks (week 1: 18-22 July, week 2: 15-19 August) and the 16 performances will take place on various dates between 16 August-15 September (exact dates to be confirmed asap). Performers will need to be available for ALL dates. This is a fully paid project.

Person Spec
We are looking for versatile performers with a solid knowledge of the leaders’ role of Tango Salón. Ideally, we would like to cast both genders and are therefore particularly interested in women who are experienced tango leaders. Alongside Tango, the performers need to have a professional background in contemporary dance and improvisation as well as contact improvisation, and be well-versed in ensemble-based creation processes.

Please email your CV and links to any show reels to info@bottlefed.org and state clearly in your application as to what role in Tango you are experienced with. We will be accepting applications until 20 June.

The audition will take place on Sunday 3 July, and we ask you to keep that day free. Successful candidates will be contacted the latest by 27 June with all the necessary audition info.

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Summer 2011

Bottlefed will take time off performing this summer to concentrate on researching (including an extensive dance research trip across Argentina), writing and preparing for upcoming projects.

Our next public appearances will be in Germany, Switzerland and the UK:

Bottlefed have been invited to deliver a lecture on our work at the German Dramaturges Society and the Institute for Theatre Management at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Swiss art institutions ‘Tuchlaube’ and ‘Stapferhaus’ have commissioned Bottlefed to devise a performance based on the gallery’s ‘digital life’ exhibition for September 2011.

We are happy to have received the XBorough London commission, a New Audiences London project. Watch this space to be updated on performance dates in August/September – we’ll be performing in various public locations all over London!

Our next London performance of our award winning piece ‘Hold Me Until You Break’ will be on 8 September 2011 @Brunel Museum (in the underground tunnel) and in collaboration with Hang player Manu Delago. www.manudelago.com

Related show

  • Artist: Encounters – Cross Borough Dance Project
  • Date: Monday, August 15th 2011 - Thursday, September 15th 2011
  • City: Encounters – Cross Borough Dance Project in London
  • Venue: 16 public locations
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Notes: ‘Encounters’ is a Central Arts Partnership dance project researching the impact of accidental, site-specific performance on audiences and the arts. Bottlefed have been commissioned to run this project in collaboration with 8 London boroughs and Audiences London to create and perform 4 site-specific dance pieces across 16 different locations. The performances will take place some time between mid-August and mid-September 2011 with some of them being pre-marketed and others not.
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  • Artist: Hold Me Until You Break
  • Date: Thursday, September 8th 2011
  • Time: 8:00pm
  • City: Hold Me Until You Break in London
  • Venue: Brunel Museum
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Notes: An extraordinary live performance experience 50 feet below the ground. ‘Hold Me Until You Break’, Bottlefed’s award winning performance, has been touring across Europe and will now come back to London for one night only and in collaboration with Björk-collaborator Manu Delago.
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  • Artist: Pure Pleasure Seekers – A performance research project
  • Date: Saturday, November 26th 2011 - Saturday, December 10th 2011
  • City: Pure Pleasure Seekers – A performance research project in Aarau
  • Venue: Tuchlaube
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Notes: Research residency with musical collaborator Fabian Kalker. „The minimum is the result of the omission of the inessentials“ John Pawson
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Bottlefed in Aarau

Bottlefed will be spending a week in sunny Aarau in Switzerland from 18 – 21 April rehearsing, researching and playing. Working in partnership with Tuchlaube and Stapferhaus, they will create a piece over the course of summer with a newly established local theatre group which will be performed in September 2011.

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