Practice, 11 November, Salisbury Arts Centre, 7.30pm

Tickets £5 including free drink at the discussion from Salisbury Arts Centre

Simple Humans presents: Love me, Love my…

Simple Humans is a new performance company directed by a writer Bryony Devine and Choreographer Ally Ling. After graduating together from Dartington College of Arts they naturally started to discuss ideas and to build a company. Love me, Love my… is their first piece devised together out side of graduating shown as a ‘scratch’ piece at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth ‘In the Flesh’ festival last year and were encouraged to develop it, which will be shown as part of the Barbicans Autumn programme this coming December.

Love me, Love my… explores the beautiful explorations, coincidences, natural and personal disablement of the body and mind, pedestrian interaction and puberty. How every single encounter shapes an individual into the diversity amongst humanity.

Our Process draws from individual’s experiences and encounters. Considering how the body moves and connects with others; pedestrian ideas and thoughts developed into dynamic material. We consider the break down of the body and building it up again from us all being ‘innate’. We all make choices independently about what is most important in life. One character feels like she needs to change her body, so we explore this transformation as if she was a car; the mechanics, bodywork and the fine-tuning! Where as another changes her clothes and make up. Personal topics that we are opening to our audience and hope they will share with us.

nice as pie dance theatre present: The Hotel

nice as pie dance theatre strive to create sensory stimulating theatrical environments, intent on diminishing the boundary between audience and performer. Audience members are invited to explore highly sensory environments, meandering through the performance space, choosing individual levels of interactivity, in their own time, at their own pace. nice as pie rejects the concept that dance performance be experienced from a safe and seated distance. Instead their desire is to create unique and refreshing dance theatre which becomes a place of social exchange rather than simply spectacle. Boasting three females, the company utilises and draws on the femininity of its members to produce culturally relevant and thought-provoking dance theatre.

nice as pie dance theatre invites you to explore The Hotel, a curiously interactive and visually vibrant multi-sensory dance performance. Mysterious, sensorial, witty and insightful, The Hotel explores and exposes the concept of the ‘Cinderella complex’ through the unravelling stories of its residents. Revealed is the fractured existence of three individuals and their desire to find a modern day prince charming.

Boasting unusual, yet engaging audience interactivity and edgy physicality, nice as pie wish you a pleasurable experience. Feel free to meander through the hotel’s corridors, explore the residents’ rooms and sample the complimentary mints, for at ‘The Hotel’, you don’t just stay, you belong…

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Francesca Millican-Slater presents: Instructions for Heartbreak

I work in theatre, live art and performance; I don’t write plays but I do write stories to tell people, I don’t make visual art but I make my own sets, I’m not an actress but I do like dressing up in costumes. I think performance can be research, and I like to set up interactions and ask people for contributions or let interactions set me up and ask people to participate. I am interested in stories that are small, resonant and familiar and finding ways to collect and tell them that is immersive, accessible and importantly, entertaining.

Instructions for Heartbreak; how to break your own heart, where to look, how to do it and what music you should listen to while you are doing it. To include case studies of heartbreak between animals, an exploration into the history of the term ‘heart break’ (why not gut ache? head break? lung collapse?), common symptoms, and advisable cures for a broken heart.

www.francescamillicanslater.co.uk