January 2011 Fresh from the oven!

Documentary from Plateaux Festival

...which I'm in, second half of the video. Interviewed about my participation as a Plateaux-production piece.. (yes it was saturday night after the shows and yes I was drinking wine!!)

http://www.mousonturm.de/web/Deutsch/PLATEAUX/

wishes for 2011

Photo: Andy Towers

Starting a new year from a place of void

- absence of features

or maybe beauty in the dark?

Rest your head, dear

and you'll find

Millions and millions of stars appear

on a black draped sky

(s. popowa)

Friday 31 Dec 2010

at The Nightingale Theatre

8pm - 1am - performances start 9pm

After an exciting debut at Coachwerks, Fresh from the oven celebrates the opening of 2011 and a new run of events at The Nightingale Theatre. We will offer our customary blend of live performances and installations adapted to the unique characteristics of the hosting space - with a party twist on this special evening!

Share a bottle of sparkling wine and get ready for the first night of the year!

£10 entry with the option of sharing a bottle of sparkling wine (£9 / bottle for 3 people), snacks included.

Places are limited to 50, so pre-book at freshfto@gmail.com if you know you want to come, pay on the door. There you will also be able to get your share of sparkly. The downstairs pub will be open through the night.

www.freshfto.blogspot.com/ for more + images of past events

Artists:

Mamoru Iriguchi

Simon Wilkinson

Inconvenient Spoof

Flying Eye

Laboratoro

Michail Mavronas & Iain Douglas

Touched Theatre

Linda Remahl

& Dr. Bramwell

+

surprise DJ

Fresh from the oven curators and artists:

Yael Karavan, Sara Popowa, Tamar Daly,

Marion Deprez, Rachel Champion

The Nightingale Theatre is situated above The Grand Central Bar, opposite Brighton train station.

map

Welcome!

White cuts Liverpool

Image in 4 pieces - at Brickbox, Brixton Market

On Thursday 15th Dec I showed a variation of Image in 4 pieces in Brixton, London, invited by Brickbox - an arts hub and cafe bar in a part of Brixton Village market with many creative, small enterprises - Brickbox being one of them. Lovely people, thank you Eleanor and Alex.

More impromptu than anything else, this showing gave me the wonderful recognition of having identified some performance elements which are mine - uniquely mine - which can be stretched, jumbled and remixed within the context of each other and through this find new meanings.

The fluffy paper head/cloud, the paper dress, the paper eye mask, the wearing of the different objects - and latest addition are the helium balloons which I found in the installation I made for the last Fresh from the oven.

The environment seemed challenging - around zero degrees in a semi-outdoor pre-christmas market arcade... but after my initial fret (which lasted till an hour before taking the train to London) the situation turned invigorating - I had not told anyone to come and the cold, openness and roughness of the space took the pressure off to make something very polished and 'perfect' (which i too often get stuck on) and instead I allowed myself to play with what I had brought with me, and with the space.

Looking at the images, I really like the fact that my actions are framed with evening-lit shopfronts. Feels pretty right for the season....

Photography: Alex Dermatis, editing Sara Popowa

A light through the Night - video documentation

Performing as part of the Karavan Ensemble, White Night 30 Oct 2010.

If you imagine that during the actual shows, there was far more contrast between the blacked-out space and the points of light in it (we had some ambient lighting for the camera). Then watch the video :)

We are

Ready for winter migration....!!

Saturday 27 November @ Coachwerks

This is the last time Fresh from the oven is hosted by Coachwerks and we welcome you to celebrate this transitional event with the Fresh team and very special guests including CiCi Blumstein and Jamie Wood.

We will serve up freshly baked live works which cross over dance, live art, music, theatre and film. And we serve nice hot food and have a cheap bar!

Next event is New Year's Eve and will be held at Nightingale Theatre, above the Grand Central bar opposite the Brighton rail station.

Fresh from the oven is co-curated by 3 performers / artists, Y Karavan, T Daly & S Popowa.

See you there!

Some documentation from residency at TAO Liverpool

.. see more photos here ..

Performing as part of Karavan Ensemble

Photo: Dan Childs

at Inhabit, Brighton Dome

Sat 4 December

11am - 4pm

Free

For one day only Brighton Dome can be seen from an entirely new perspective; local artists, writers and performers have responded to the normally hidden parts of this Grade I listed building to create installations, interventions and mini performances to reveal the building's hidden corners and best kept secrets.

Tours will take place on Saturday 4th December at various times throughout the day from 11am to 4pm.

Artists involved in the project include:

The Karavan Ensemble, Banbazi, Prodigal Theatre's Urban Playground Team Artichoke.

November Fresh from the oven coming up!

Winter migration? We are migrating Fresh from the oven from Coachwerks, next one on New Year's eve will be at The Nightingale Theatre.

Acts are still being confirmed but there will be some live gems of performance and music, hot food, cosiness, and maybe some balloons!

Hope to see you there. xx

Liverpool day 2

First try-outs in the space, International Gallery today. Armed with thermal leggings and the spirit of being in a new place, we did some improvisation with a score of viewing the camera as a person we have a relation with in real life, making some simple movements repeated in different parts of the space. We were using a soundtrack Tamar had prepared in Brighton with our lovely musician friend Tristan Shorr (also does sound for our project with the Karavan ensemble).

We still have many ideas to try out, and these are only first sketches but we definitely had some beautiful moments and made some starting images. Tomorrow we will make better use of the natural light in the gallery and also try some ideas of mine out working with the live body, paper and movement.