June 2009 Programme - The Basement

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Brighton Station
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two other NCP car parks in North Road and Church Street.
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By Foot: The Basement is a 10minute walk from Brighton train
station. After exiting the station, walk through the under path
(Trafalgar Street) until you reach Sydney Street, turn right.
Sydney Street then meets Kensington Street, you will find us
half way down on the left-hand side.
PROGRAMME
FEBRUARY – JUNE 2009
welcome
FEBRUARY
It is with huge excitement that we invite you to our second programme of Live Art at The
Basement. We’re very proud to show artists from our own backyard alongside artists who
have come from around the world, to share their work with our audiences here in Brighton.
We are dedicated to innovative and experimental
live art practice and our programme explores new
ideas, formats and methods of presentation, to
create a dazzling line up of the most interesting
local, national and international work.
4MOST is our showcase of new work by
leading national and international artists in live art,
experimental/performance theatre and
site-specific installations.
Foundation is a brand new section of our programme
that gives some of Brighton’s leading artists a
chance to try out new performance works under
development, and for you to get a insight into their
working processes.
SupperClub is a jam-packed night of experimental
performance curated by our very own Supported
Artists. Come along as the most charismatic,
nationally emerging live artists share their wares
and take over The Basement.
Supported and Associate Artists are a
community of practitioners we work with. This is
central to the ethos and activity of The Basement.
Our Supported Artists are a group of emergent,
Brighton based artists, supported by The Basement
through an administrative base, venue resources
and mentoring support.
Movement 12 presents
LIVE LUNCH with CiCi Blumstein
Date: Thur 12th February
Doors: 1pm (Lunchtime!)
Entry Fee: FREE (bring your lunchbox!)
A series of monthly lunchtime events curated by
Movement 12 and co-produced with The Basement.
These popular events - a series of happenings - may
take the form of a short performance experiment, a talk
or discussions based around the interests of a different
dance artist and witness something that will intrigue
and inspire you.
Our Associate Artists are a group of established
practitioners who are based at the venue or have
developed work with us over a number of years.
Supported Artists: Augusto Corrieri, Bryony
Henderson, Clara García Fraile, Eva Weaver, Flying
Eye, Leonard, Sara Popowa, The Two Wrongies and
Victoria Melody
www.movement12.org
Associated Artists/Practitioners: Katie Etheridge,
Lone Twin, Movement 12, Ragroof Theatre and
Total Theatre Magazine
We would like to thank the many volunteers and our
board members (past and present), as well as our
funders and supporters, who have helped us create
one of the most exciting new venues in the South
East. We could not have done this without their
encouragement and support.
We look forward to seeing you
Helen Medland
Artistic Director
PS We have a fully Licensed Bar serving
speciality regional beers, wine and cider, all
sympathetically priced!!
4MOST
THE STORY OF TEA
Date: Sat 7th & 8th February
Doors: 7.30pm
Entry Fee: £10 (£8 concessions)
Nightingale Theatre in collaboration with The Basement
presents The Story of Tea, a variation on the theme of
Three Sisters by A.P. Chekhov.
DAH Teatar’s version of Three Sisters deals with trains
and missed opportunities, trains of missing people, lost
languages and missing truths. The performance explores
the meaning of memory in relation to the truth – especially
the harshest truths. A poetic and beautiful interpretation
of one of Europe’s masterpieces. Don’t miss this rare
opportunity to see DAH in the UK.
Photo: Bip Mistry
Movement 12 is - a group of independent dance
artists based around Brighton curating an international
programme of artist-led professional development
opportunities for dance artists, movement classes
and summer schools with internationally respected
performance makers and teachers, space to try out ideas
and show work in progress and opportunities to meet,
discuss and explore. Movement 12 aims to facilitate an
environment in which the focus is on process, exploration
and discovery rather than on product.
box office: 01273 699733
Dr. David Bramwell and Lady Rachel Blackman present
THE TWILIGHT CLUB:
St. Valentine’s Delight
Date: Doors: Tickets: MARCH
Sat 14th February
8pm
£8 (£6 concessions)
www.movement12.org
Movement 12 presents
GO
Lisa Nelson and Scott Smith
Date: Fri 6th March
Doors: 7.30pm
Entry Fee: £8 (£6 concessions)
A dance piece based on a Tuning Score proposition by
Lisa Nelson
Within an improvisational framework, this performance
simultaneously explores the choreographic craft and
the physical sensation of dancing. Working in the space
between the arbitrary and the structured Go creates
a dramatic tension for both the performers and the
audience. Conflicting desires are played out in time, space,
and action.
“The tuning score redefines the dynamics of dance
performance. You see a frame-by-frame exposure of
images, falling somewhere between sandpainting and
filmmaking”. Montreal Gazette
Elsewhere, be seduced by delightful dances led by the
delectable Dorothy’s Shoes, games engineered by the
delicious Dr David Bramwell and luscious Lady Rachel
Blackman. Hear the very latest cutting edge 78s spun by
the Wind-up Brothers.
box office: 01273 699733
Date: Thur 12th March
Doors: 1pm (Lunchtime!)
Entry Fee: FREE (bring your lunchbox!)
A series of monthly lunchtime events curated by
Movement 12 and co-produced with The Basement.
These popular events - a series of happenings - may
take the form of a short performance experiment, a talk
or discussions based around the interests of a different
dance artist and witness something that will intrigue
and inspire you.
HCooing love-birds, strutting peacocks, broken-hearted
poets, and courtly lovers – come celebrate the feast of
love as The Twilight Club teams up with Dorothy’s Shoes
to create St Valentine’s Delight, a night of heady romance,
cheeky games, interactive performance, melodious music,
flirtatious dance, and high mischief.
Special guest artist CiCi Blumstein will invite you to step
into the carefully calibrated Love Triangle, where the
Seamstress of Love awaits to measure the heart and the
secret spaces within it, revealing EXACTLY how much love
you have…
Movement 12 presents
LIVE LUNCH with Scott Smith
Go is produced in cooperation with Contact
Collaborations, Inc. (www.contactcollaborations.com)
and with the support of The Basement. Movement 12
are Associate Artists.
Movement 12 is - a group of independent dance
artists based around Brighton curating an international
programme of artist-led professional development
opportunities for dance artists, movement classes
and summer schools with internationally respected
performance makers and teachers, space to try out ideas
and show work in progress and opportunities to meet,
discuss and explore. Movement 12 aims to facilitate an
environment in which the focus is on process, exploration
and discovery rather than on product.
Foundation
Dean Gibbons and the Knowledge
of Death - A work in progress Silvia
Mercuriali and Matt Rudkin
Date: Fri 20th March
Doors: 7pm
Entry Fee: FREE
Ernest Swansong, eminent primatologist from the
Zazen-Co Biological Research Facility in Japan, comes
to The Basement on his world tour to present the
mesmeric abilities of a newly discovered species of
ape, The Giant Mountain Bonobo.
A darkly comic work of social-science-fiction based on
the claims of evolutionary psychology, this show imagines
an irreversible process of rapid environmental change is
already underway, that it is too late to avoid catastrophe,
and that a powerful few are conspiring to bring about
drastic solutions.
The audience are invited to stay behind for a glass of wine
and to share their feedback. This project is supported by
the Arts Council.
box office: 01273 699733
Dorothy Max Prior (Dorothy’s Shoes) presents
SUPPER CLUB
THE BASEMENT BORDELLO
Date: Sat 21st March
Doors: 7pm
Entry Fee: £7 (£5 concessions)
Date: Sat 28th March
Doors: 8pm
Entry Fee: £8 (£6 concessions)
APRIL
4MOST
THE BUCKET
Wevie Stonder
The Basement’s Supported Artists present a night of
art chaos.
Date: Doors:
Tickets: See music, film art, performance art, installation art,
visual art, invisible art, shit art, good art, explosive art…
expect to indulge yourself in a frenzy of art intoxication,
expect to pay, expect it all and possibly nothing at all.
Fri 3rd April
8pm
£6
With gleeful wrongness, absurdist electronic provocateurs
Wevie Stonder launch their fourth album, The Bucket on
April Fool’s Day from the ragged car boot of their very own
Cack records label. In celebration they will be bringing
their glorious freakshow to The Basement for their first
Brighton gig since 2003. Their legendary live shows mix
performance art with game-show razzmatazz, a riot of
surreal costumes, manic humour and a blatant disregard
for musical propriety.
Deep underground (and at times through) the streets of
Brighton, a core team of The Basement’s artists curate
the best of new and experimental arts / live music from
the UK.
They plot a Saturday night for you and your friends. But
you won’t know what’s on the menu until it’s served…
‘…the combination of something to nibble with a keenly
priced bar and some of Brighton’s more interesting culture
vultures makes for quite a temptation’
The Brighton Source, December 2008
‘This is exactly the kind of underground, leftfield business
that keeps me alive in times of pop shite overload’
Rob Da Bank, BBC Radio 1
Dorothy’s Shoes and her Gentlemen Friends, Champagne
Charlie and Burlington Bertie, invite you to The Basement
Bordello, a ghost-world Palace of Fun in which the
boundaries of ‘performer’ and ‘audience’ are disrupted as
the space is animated by a cornucopia of live events that
honour and usurp the traditions of ‘popular entertainment’.
Enter The Ballroom That Time Forgot and be drawn into
the dance. Slip into The Sideshow for flickering films and
shadowy performance vignettes. Take time out in Bar
Staad to be tempted by Bad Stock Productions’ menu of
‘cabaret noir’ musical interludes and pertinacious puppetry.
Magic moments guaranteed.
Movement 12 presents
LIVE LUNCH host to be confirmed
Date: Thur 9th April
Doors: 1pm (Lunchtime!)
Entry Fee: FREE (bring your lunchbox!)
A series of monthly lunchtime events curated by
Movement 12 and co-produced with The Basement.
These popular events - a series of happenings - may
take the form of a short performance experiment, a talk
or discussions based around the interests of a different
dance artist and witness something that will intrigue and
inspire you.
www.movement12.org
Movement 12 is - a group of independent dance
artists based around Brighton curating an international
programme of artist-led professional development
opportunities for dance artists, movement classes
and summer schools with internationally respected
performance makers and teachers, space to try out ideas
and show work in progress and opportunities to meet,
discuss and explore. Movement 12 aims to facilitate an
environment in which the focus is on process, exploration
and discovery rather than on product.
Photo: Victoria Melody
box office: 01273 699733
box office: 01273 699733
4MOST
Prune Machine Glitz
Dr. David Bramwell and Lady Rachel Blackman present
B.O.R.N
Enter the Spirit World
Date: Doors: Tickets: THE TWILIGHT CLUB:
Sat 11th April
8pm
£10 (£8 concessions)
B.O.R.N is Paul Granjon, Davida Hewlett and Thomas
Hobson. Prune Machine Glitz is an attempt to defeat
contemporary feelings of gloom and doom while
embracing a wide range of human activities and feelings.
Based on personal experiences, reflections on progress,
love, and the challenge of a meaningful life, Prune
Machine Glitz is a musically rich, dance activated,
thought provoking, multi-layered, technological,
heartfelt journey shaped as a cross between a robot
demonstration, a psychological experiment and a
slightly wobbly cabaret night.
The show combines Paul Granjon’s expertise of handmade machines and unique approach of the performance
lecture format with bright performer Davida Hewlett’s vivid,
humorous and slightly paranoid observations and pop
ballads. Paul and Davida’s previous collaboration was
the Mind Sniffer, a consultation room where volunteers’
psychic abilities were evaluated. Thomas Hobson, a visual
artist and skateboarder, brings an energetic dimension,
super slick dance moves and fine video graphics skills. All
the crew will be singing and dancing.
Date: Doors: Tickets:
Step off the street into an intimate candlelit other-world
for parlour games, maverick performances, Generation
Game-style silliness, sing-songs round the piano and other
complicitous adventures as Brighton’s celebrated Twilight
Club returns for a second season of high mischief.
Photo: Jenny Hunt & Holly Darton
4MOST
NO ENTRY
SUPPER CLUB
Rosie Dennis
Date: Sat 18th April
Doors: 7pm
Entry Fee: £7 (£5 concessions)
Date: Doors: Tickets: Fr1 17th April
7.30pm
£10 (£8 concessions
Colliding dance, performance poetry and theatre, No
Entry is an electrifying exploration of the rapacious and
demanding nature of the corporate workplace. It draws on
themes of greed, exposure and escape to create two very
different personas, both trapped in a world of unrelenting
deadlines and white noise. Sound and movement collide
to create an intensely evocative performance, and a
compelling insight into the emotional fragility of the
human psyche.
”No Entry is gripping but elusive, dancing gracefully
between possible meanings the way Dennis danced
gracefully between genres…” The Scotsman
This project was commissioned by The Plateaux Festival
and supported by Australia Council for the Arts, University
of NSW & University of Sydney.
box office: 01273 699733
Sat 25th April
8pm - late
£8 (£6 concessions)
The Basement’s Supported Artists present a night of
art chaos.
See music, film art, performance art, installation art, visual
art, invisible art, shit art, good art, explosive art…expect
to indulge yourself in a frenzy of art intoxication, expect to
pay, expect it all and possibly nothing at all.
Tonight, Dr David Bramwell and Lady Rachel Blackman
dare you to step into the spirit world where unseen
entities will vie for your soul. Be intoxicated by ghostly
melodies and hypnotic psychics. Featuring an eye-opening
demonstration of Atter’s Attree’s Chaporgasmatron, the
erotic charm of Madame Wazelle and her astounding
Cabinet of Spirit Entities, a screening of Toby Amies’
vintage film noir classic ‘the Ghost of Odd Fellow’, spooky
music of the dead from the Wind Up Brothers and much
more. You can also share your spookiest stories in the
Story Forest.
Collaborative entertainment for those of an adventurous
spirit! The Twilight Club is a youth Club for Bohemians.
Come prepared to participate!
Deep underground (and at times through) the streets of
Brighton, a core team of The Basement’s artists curate the
best of new and experimental arts / live music from the UK.
They plot a Saturday night for you and your friends. But
you won’t know what’s on the menu until it’s served…
‘…the combination of something to nibble with a keenly
priced bar and some of Brighton’s more interesting culture
vultures makes for quite a temptation’
The Brighton Source, December 2008
box office: 01273 699733
MAY
4MOST
Imagined Monochrome (Massage) 2009
Anish Kapoor
Date: Sat 2nd - Sun 24th May
Doors: 10am - 6pm
Tickets: £12 (Booking essential from ticket office:
01273 709709 or www.brightonfestival.org)
Foundation
4MOST
The Demographic of a Pigeon
Fancier - Victoria Melody
STAY!
Date: Mon 18th – Mon 25th May
Doors: 10am - 6pm daily
Entry Fee: FREE
Finale:Mon 25th May, Jubilee Square
(weather permitting) FREE
Date: Fri 29th May
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions)
Stacy Makishi
A dinner party has had one drink too many and now
Elizabeth Taylor lifts the petticoats of a love affair that’s
gone to the dogs. Film Noir collides with Pet Rescue in
this hilarious examination of co-dependence, malicious
domination and the subversion of the natural order.
This highly visual piece draws its inspiration from the
paintings of Paula Rego, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
and Lassie Come Home.
Commissioned by Brighton Festival
Designed to give the participant an experience of
monochromatic colour
Developed at Lyric Hammersmith
A massage
The experience of colour is imagined
Dorothy Max Prior (Dorothy’s Shoes) presents
THE BASEMENT BORDELLO
Victoria Melody is an artist who spent 2008 travelling
around the UK living with pigeon fanciers. These videos,
performance works and mass liberation of pigeons are
from her research into stereotypes, northernness, class
and Britain’s disappearing traditions. On the 25th May as
a finale the North, West, South and East of England will
become linked in a performance. In an installation taking
place in The Basement between 18th and 25th May the
public will have the opportunity to create a dialogue via
pigeon between the locations. Participate by writing a
message of your thoughts, opinions, anecdotes, and/or
stories on Britain’s vanishing traditions.
www.victoriamelody.co.uk
Victoria Melody is a Basement supported artist. This
performance is supported by Arts Council England.
box office: 01273 699733
Date: Sat 30th May
Doors: 8pm
Entry Fee: £8 (£6 concessions)
Dorothy’s Shoes and her Gentlemen Friends, Champagne
Charlie and Burlington Bertie, invite you to The Basement
Bordello, a ghost-world Palace of Fun in which the
boundaries of ‘performer’ and ‘audience’ are disrupted as
the space is animated by a cornucopia of live events that
honour and usurp the traditions of ‘popular entertainment’.
Enter The Ballroom That Time Forgot and be drawn into
the dance. Slip into The Sideshow for flickering films and
shadowy performance vignettes. Take time out in Bar
Staad to be tempted by Bad Stock Productions’ menu of
‘cabaret noir’ musical interludes and pertinacious puppetry.
Magic moments guaranteed.
box office: 01273 699733
JUNE
4MOST
Foundation
THE TWILIGHT CLUB:
Cutting the Cord - Flying Eye
The Great Brighton Treasure Hunt
Date: Thurs 25th June
Doors: 7pm
Entry Fee: FREE
Date: Doors: Tickets:
Reverend Billy and the Gospel
Choir of Stop Shopping
Date: Doors: Tickets: Dr. David Bramwell and Lady Rachel Blackman present
Sat 13th June
8pm - late
£8 (£6 concessions)
Mon 1st June
7.30pm
£10 (£8 concessions)
Hallelujah! Your saviour is at hand! Reverend Billy and
his magnificent Gospel Choir of Stop Shopping will sing,
preach, charm, berate, seduce and rescue you. All in
one evening. If you feel we’re suffering from shopping
overload, if you’re concerned about a world rife with
global advertising, multi national control, global warming,
packaging, supermarket domination, TV merchandising
and all the rest of rampant free marketeering in a profit
driven wicked and dirty world ... then help is at hand my
friends. This is your antidote to the devils that plague us.
An evening that will delight and charm even the most
hardened devotee of the shopping culture. Hallelujah!
Rev Billy has been feted (and arrested) in several countries.
He lives and preaches in New York City.
‘Elmer Gantry crossed with Michael Moore’
The Wall St Journal
Cutting the Cord is a promenade performance exploring
the sense of what it means to belong. It is a work-inprogress by FLYING EYE developed in association with
BAC and The Basement.
SUPPER CLUB
Photo: Julian Hughes
Date: Sat 6th June
Doors: 7pm
Entry Fee: £7 (£5 concessions)
The Basement’s Supported Artists present a night of
art chaos.
See music, film art, performance art, installation art, visual
art, invisible art, shit art, good art, explosive art…expect
to indulge yourself in a frenzy of art intoxication, expect to
pay, expect it all and possibly nothing at all.
Deep underground (and at times through) the streets of
Brighton, a core team of The Basement’s artists curate the
best of new and experimental arts / live music from the UK.
They plot a Saturday night for you and your friends. But
you won’t know what’s on the menu until it’s served…
‘…the combination of something to nibble with a keenly
priced bar and some of Brighton’s more interesting culture
vultures makes for quite a temptation’
The Brighton Source, December 2008
box office: 01273 699733
Where did you come from? Where are you going? Can
you recall the exact voice of your mother? Did you ever
meet her? Memories that flutter past and silently leave
their traces. The feel of dewdrops under your feet running
across the lawn, scraping your knee on the concrete
border, wobbly train that makes your heart excited...
Celebrate the return of barmy summer nights as the
Twilight Club turn their hands to the age-old tradition of
the treasure hunt. Set around the bars and streets of
North Laine but using the Basement Club as its heart, The
Great Brighton Treasure Hunt, will have you sculpting,
collecting, playing, performing, quizzing, problem-solving
and ultimately collecting a bunch of new friends.
Tonight your regular hosts, Dr David Bramwell and Lady
Rachel Blackman will be joined by the mistress of treasure
hunts herself, Denise Gough. Further challenges will be
provided by Señor Pete ‘I predict a Pop Quiz’ Fijalkowski
hosting a Shooting Stars style quiz in the piano bar, a top
secret Two Wrongies challenge for your excitement and a
host of other performance treats. Afterwards join us in the
Basement for dancing, tapas, wine, song and games deep
into the summer night.
Dress Code: for outdoor and indoor activities
Collaborative entertainment for those of an adventurous
spirit! Come prepared to participate!
box office: 01273 699733
JUBILEE SQUARE
Jubilee Street, Brighton, BN1 1GE
The Basement is the event manager of Jubilee
Square, Brighton’s newest and most exciting
outdoor venue. The space is ideal for a diverse
range of cultural activities including Live Art
showcases, street theatre, exhibitions, community
events, outdoor screenings and music events.
Built to complement the Library, myhotel Brighton
was finished in June 2008. The Architects, RHWL,
were keen to create a more solid facade to the
square than the glazed library and restaurant.
The Basement started programming Jubilee Square
at the beginning of 2008. So far we have brought
you Blast Theory and BoSI (in partnership with
Brighton Festival) along with supporting Festival
Fringe events, plus Tea Dances, Urban Playground,
Choral Singers and an Astro Turf garden with
deckchairs, to name just a few of the happenings.
The Basement’s vision for the Square is to bring
established and emergent artists to the heart of
the City, making it one of the most exciting and
innovative Public Spaces.
Situated in the North Laine, Brighton’s Cultural
Quarter, Jubilee Square is only a short walk from
the train station, the Royal Pavilion, Brighton Dome,
Theatre Royal and the seafront.
The Square is 19m x 23m with a footfall of
20-22,000 per day. Jubilee Square is available
for hire 7 days per week, license permits activity
until 11pm.
For more information on The Basement
and Jubilee Square visit the website
www.thebasement.uk.com
To utilise Jubilee Square please contact us on
[email protected] or call 01273 699733
The basement
Re-launched in October 2007 after the completion of a redevelopment period, creating four unique spaces
under one roof. The Basement spaces (The Space, Pit, Study and Foyer) can be hired exclusively or together.
The Basement has a capacity limit for up to 250 people and is available for hire 7 days per week, located in the
centre of the North Laine area, only a short walking distance from the train station and the seafront.
For venue hire fees please contact [email protected] or call 01273 699733.
The Space
7m by 25m, the main
body of The Basement.
Ideal for devising,
rehearsing, production
or exhibitions.
“The Basement is a wonderful, engaging,
supportive and creative environment, and a
friendly place in which to test the waters and
push the performance envelope.”
Liz Aggiss and Charlotte Vincent
“All I want to be saying is, thank you, because
you have been wonderful, so I’ll say that now,
thank you, thank you, thank you!”
Daniel Kitson
The Pit
7m by 6m, an intimate
space with a sprung floor
and tiered seating for 60.
Ideal for presentations,
performances and
screenings.
The Foyer
A café style area with
a capacity of 40, ideal
for breakfast and
lunchtime meetings
or networking events.
“Just wanted to say how FANTASTIC it has been
working in your spaces the last couple of weeks.
Everyone had a really great time and we all felt
that we were really looked after.”
Charlie Morrisey
“Rehearsing at the Basement was a great
experience. Not only were the facilities of a very
high standard but the staff were fantastically
accommodating and helpful.”
Lone Twin
Roger Bamber
On one side is Jubilee Library influenced by the
19th century Paris libraries of Henri Labrouste
and tiled in thousands of dark blue and green
hand glazed ceramic tiles, suggesting the
‘mathematical’ tiles on many historic Brighton
buildings. The building then stretches round the
corner to become Pizza Express.
It is a white-rendered box with regular bays at first
and second floor levels, a reference to the local
Georgian vernacular. The culmination of these
buildings is the creation of a natural amphitheatre
with astounding acoustics.