Anatomy #5: No! Anything But That!

Friday 14th June, Summerhall
7.45pm doors
£6

Anatomy #5 features nine astonishing acts from local and international artists, including contemporary dance, performance film, burlesque, experimental music, ritual theatre, anti-circus, live art and knitting. Each considers that moment of daunting realisation; of pure flabbergast; that primal scream from behind the popcorn-sticky sofa: NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT!

It’ll also feature hogwash and moonshine from your villainous hosts, Ali Maloney and Harry Giles.

A contemporary take on the music hall variety show, ANATOMY is a platform for performance artists of all disciplines; beyond scratch, it creates a stage for risk-taking performance and breath-taking theatrics in Edinburgh’s exciting new multi-arts venue, Summerhall, within a historic anatomy lecture theatre.

“Necessary and vital to the growth of the arts in Edinburgh” — Exeunt Magazine

Roxy’s Hens
Oliver Benton

A public pseudo-performance film following a hen-night-come-fertility-rite, heavy with ritual and superstitious behaviour; absurd, comical and perhaps a little sinister, we follow Roxy’s Hens around the city as they drink, flirt and invoke the old gods in an increasingly deranged and debauched Saturnalian celebration of sexuality, fertility and phallic symbolism, culminating with an offering to Mutunus Tutunus (the priapic deity of marriage) himself.

The Trick
Kat Borrowdale

There is no room for failure in the sharp-sequined arena of Cirque du Flambe! where bodies are finely-honed tools programmed to create the perfect illusion of non-humanness. So what will happen when the one thing the performer’s body was trained so hard to do just won’t work anymore? Can an audience ever really forgive a failure?

Alteration
Nina Falk

The film addresses the grey areas between medical and aesthetic modifications. How far can we go to create ourselves? When do I stop being me? Does it matter if the alterations are voluntary or not? How much can I change, alter and remove? Can I re-construct, de-construct, and even construct my own identity? This is all an underlying thread; is an artificial disfiguration and manipulation of ourselves now a part of our identity?

Pubic Hair Scarf and Matching Ear Muffs For Cindy (Or Similar Size) Doll
Rebecca Green

The artist will knit a scarf and matching ear muffs out of her own pubic hair, suitable for a Cindy (or similar size) doll, and would like to offer it as a bingo prize at Anatomy 5.

The winner will be required to show that they own a suitable size doll in order to claim the prize, as Rebecca wouldn’t want to give it to any time wasters.

You could bring your doll with you.

Margaret
Lauren Sarah Hayes and Marcin Pietruszewski.

Margaret is marriage of modern computer techniques with intense analogue synthesizer. Margaret is an improvisation projected around the space, through an array of speakers. She appears in complete darkness, punctuated by flashes of light. Margaret is a collaboration between composer/performers Lauren Sarah Hayes (Scotland) and Marcin Pietruszewski (Poland).

Graceful Warrior
Charlotte Jarvis

always a work in progress

Charlotte continues to explore movement, humanity, and the resonance of life…

Graceful Warrior is a discovery of who and where we are today, in this very moment.  To dance the truth, with love and freedom.

Gasmask Geisha
Lottie Kixx

Ms Kixx is a dark and decadent performance arist whose lyrical shows offer an indulgent mix of seductive music, impeccable choreography and exquisite style.

The Moon Bridge
Calum Macaskill

The irresponsible whispers of the past unfold before you in gelatinous, muscular form. Half-vegetable, half-creature, all MADNESS.

Twitch
Sara Zaltash

A girl is caught in a trap, suspended high and recorded. She sings all the time as live crickets climb across her patterned skin. See her, hear her. http://sarazaltash.com/

(image from The Growing Act)

Anatomy Trailer

ANATOMY: A Performance Variety (promo) from harlequinade on Vimeo.

All footage filmed at ANATOMY #4: Silence / Noise / Silence, MARCH 2013.
anatomynight.wordpress.com
ANATOMY: Curated by Ali Maloney & Harry Giles
Filming / Editing by Capture UK.

Callout for Anatomy #5: No! Anything but that!

ANATOMY #5
NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT!
Friday 14th June 2013
Summerhall, Edinburgh
CALLOUT FOR PROPOSALS

“A great gift for a performer.”
– Lucille Teppa, Tessitura

Like a black-cloaked and cackling villain across Gotham rooftops, ANATOMY continues to leap from strength to strength, and we are very proud to announce our fifth event.

A contemporary take on the music hall variety show, ANATOMY is a platform for performance artists of all disciplines; beyond scratch, it creates a stage for risk-taking performance and breath-taking theatrics in Edinburgh’s exciting new multi-arts venue, Summerhall, within a historic anatomy lecture theatre.

ANATOMY seeks proposals from theatre practitioners, artists, dancers, music makers and destroyers, puppeteers of junk and flesh, sculptors, story tellers, film makers, clowns, poets, photographers, mimes, installations, painters, weirdos and burlesques; the abstract, the comical, the terrifying, the sublime, the unfathomable, the beautiful, the life-changing and the oddly mundane.

We are looking for brave pieces, 5-20 minutes in length, that transcend the boundaries of genre, either by smashing, blending or outright ignoring them

Continuing our tradition of a vague theme, around which the night may or may not focus, ANATOMY #5 considers that moment of daunting realisation; of pure flabbergast; that primal scream from behind the popcorn-sticky sofa: NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT! Within the theatrical parameters of Health & Safety, how far can we go? Dancing on nails on fire? Ballet of the human centipede? Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk?

This theme is loose and you are free to use it strictly, loosely, or not at all; adhering to the theme is not part of the selection criteria.

If ANATOMY is somewhere that you and your art belong, please download this form and return, completed, as a single file by 28th April 2013 to anatomynight@gmail.com

Selected acts will have access to rehearsal space before the show, a small expenses budget of £30, and full technical support.

Please note that due to structural limitations, we are currently unable to accept applications from aerial acts. Although we hope this to change in the near future. By magic if necessary.

“Words cannot describe how happy, grateful, thankful and touched I am right now. I just back from performing at ANATOMY #4 and the reactions and feedback I got were unbelievable, interesting and more than I could have wished for.”
– Tom Harlow, Pour Homme

“I love the idea of ANATOMY. The venue, the acts, all of it.”
– Brian Sonia-Wallace, Partnerships Alone

ANATOMY #4: Silence/Noise/Silence

Friday 8th March
7.45 – 11pm
Summerhall, Edinburgh
£6

Edinburgh’s platform for new performance is back. A contemporary take on the music hall variety show, ANATOMY is a embraces everything that can happen on stage and screen. Beyond scratch, it creates a stage for risk-taking performance and breath-taking theatrics in Edinburgh’s exciting new multi-arts venue, Summerhall, within a historic anatomy lecture theatre.

Anatomy #4 features nine astonishing acts from local and international artists, including contemporary dance, experimental film, cybertheatre, spoken/silent word, piano dissection, physical performance and boylesque.

It’ll also feature stuff and nonsense from your congenial hosts, Ali Maloney and Harry Giles.

“Necessary and vital to the growth of the arts in Edinburgh” — Exeunt Magazine

In the beauty of the day
Rachel Amey

Poetry of space, of word,
of the language
of the body
in the world.

www.rachelamey.com

Beautiful Art Feminist
Phoebe Cottam

Beautiful Art Feminist is an experimental piece of cinema which investigates art and death and challenges our fragile ideas about presence and absence. It uses a mixture of poetry, music, radio, video art by Hilary Donald and new footage by Phoebe Cottam.  The piece evolves gradually from a meditative and paced beginning to explore the confusion and hysteria that accompanies a death. Putting Hilary’s art in the context of her death questions her absence and the meaning of authorship.

corkshoesandsparrows.wordpress.com

Pour Homme
Tom Harlow

Pour Homme is an exploration of masculinty and male sexuality through song, dance and striptease. Tom Harlow invites you to watch as he sings, dances and even strips to try and reveal the answer to a simple question, “What is a man?” Tom will be performing exerts from his first ever solo show that will be premiered in Glasgow on March 15th at The Virginia Gallery. Tom Harlow is a male Burlesque performer and Cabaret singer based in Glasgow and has been performing all over the UK since Dec 2010.

www.tomharlowboylesque.com

Tessitura
Lucille Teppa

Tessitura, “weaving” in English, is a quirky and odd dance. Its frenzied and dense quality results from a musical composition of movement closely related to Italian pianist Stefano Bollani’s cover of Angel Villoldo’s tango ‘El Choclo’ (1903).
Brief and elusive solo work, Tessitura is an ephemeral signature which, in a single passing, vanishes as it is being performed. Bringing emphasis on its process over its result, Tessitura is a self-erasing procedure, an event from which nothing remains. Tessitura has been performed at the Black Box Festival in Plovdiv (Bulgaria) and at the Winter Dance Faktry in Wales.

www.lucille-teppa.com

Still Life
Leo Olamerino

Still Life is the first in a series of pieces where Olamerino utilises the body as a tool and subject for the first time, in an attempt to explore things there isn’t a word for, feelings, emotions, stories that cannot be contained within words. Leo Olamerino is an artist and producer, hailing from France and currently living and working in Lancaster.

olamerino.wordpress.com / www.talkwithleap.com

Anatomy of a Piano
Will Pickvance

A look at the emotional, physical and spiritual anatomy of the piano, with stories about, songs around, the playing on, the dissection of, a piano.

www.willpickvance.com

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Turn Sideways Into You
Linda Ravenswood and Brian Sonia-Wallace

Although we are able to reach out to one another (through technologies of signals, letters in the post, under oceans, with satellites and towers to guide our communications) there remains a cruel barrier between us with regards to connection.  What happens to a partnership when one half of it is always absent?  The project creators never met in person to work, so the words of the performance are two halves of a dialogue that takes place in different temporal locations — drawn from texts, email, phone calls, and social networks. The subject is the cruelty of absence.  What happens when our real bodies do not exist in the same place without cyborg projections?  Now, we are together.  We are in Los Angeles.  But you are here, collectively, in this room, in Edinburgh.  Now, it is you who are absent.

moshi moshi
un dó dance theatre (Monika Smekot & Iraya Noble)

‘moshi moshi’ is a short dance/physical theatre piece about communication.   Being aware or not we are constantly communicating things. Our choices are always sending some kind of message to the world. As recipients we are not always able to understand the message, but we keep communicating all the time: the shape of our bodies, the way we walk, things we decide to eat, music we love to listen to, the clothes we decide to wear, the moment that we can’t hold back the tears, the people we are getting pissed off at. These are all messages of who we are and what we want and need in life.

Blood, Bone and Gold
Voice Box Theatre Company in collaboration with Merlin’s Song

A dark tale of misunderstanding. Using movement, acrobatics, dramatic vocalisation and intense character work. Beowulf’s Monster, the ultimate scapegoat Grendel seeks the humanity that has been denied him. His mother has forgotten, Dragon speaks in Riddles.

Callout for ANATOMY #4: silence / noise / silence

ANATOMY #4
SILENCE / NOISE / SILENCE
Friday 8th March 2013
Summerhall, Edinburgh

CALLOUT FOR PROPOSALS

Following on from 2012′s extraordinary ANATOMY #1-3, we are delighted to announce ANATOMY #4: SILENCE/NOISE/SILENCE, the first in our ongoing 2013 programme of events.

A contemporary take on the music hall variety show, ANATOMY is a platform for performance artists of all disciplines; beyond scratch, it creates a stage for risk-taking performance and breath-taking theatrics in Edinburgh’s exciting new multi-arts venue, Summerhall, within a historic anatomy lecture theatre.

ANATOMY seeks proposals from theatre practitioners, artists, dancers, music makers and destroyers, puppeteers of junk and flesh, sculptors, story tellers, film makers, clowns, poets, photographers, mimes, installations, painters, weirdos and burlesques; the abstract, the comical, the terrifying, the sublime, the unfathomable, the beautiful, the life-changing and the oddly mundane.

We are looking for brave pieces, 5-20 minutes in length, that transcend the boundaries of genre: either by smashing, blending or outright ignoring them

There is, which may or may not be a feature from now on, a vague theme for ANATOMY #4. SILENCE/NOISE/SILENCE is the structure of life, dramatic narrative, love and sound; a medium, a sequence, a contrast, a message in itself; a mute with dynamite, the birth of the cosmos through sign language. This theme is loose and you are free to use it strictly, loosely, or not at all; adhering to the theme is not part of the selection criteria.

If ANATOMY is somewhere that you and your art belong, please download an Application Form and return, completed, as a single file by 3rd February 2013 to: anatomynight@gmail.com

Selected acts will have access to rehearsal space before the show, a small expenses budget of £30 and technical support.

Anatomy #3: pantomime for the end of time

Friday 14th December
7.30 – 11pm
Summerhall, Edinburgh
£6

Following on from the sell-out successes of of ANATOMY #1 and #2, we are delighted to announce our return to a more regular spot. ANATOMY #3: PANTOMIME FOR THE END OF TIME is the first in a regular year-round programme of our spectacular performance variety.

A contemporary take on the music hall variety show, ANATOMY is a platform for performance artists of all disciplines. Beyond scratch, it creates a stage for risk-taking performance and breath-taking theatrics in Edinburgh’s exciting new multi-arts venue, Summerhall, within a historic anatomy lecture theatre.

Featuring…
stuff and nonsense from your host bodies, Ali Maloney and Harry Giles!
pantomime dress-up and design from Kath McMahon!
an array of performance, film, songs and peculiar happenings from this edition’s fabulous artists!

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Walk
Oli Benton

A short film about walking.

http://www.oliverbenton.com

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I’ll Be Home for Christmas: A Suicide Note
Victoria Bianchi

The end of the world is coming, and Victoria doesn’t fancy sticking around to watch. So she’s launching a pre-emptive strike…

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The Snow Queen (interlude song)
Eddy Dreadnought

A solo performance and communal comic song on ice, snow andd mortality. An excerpt from a fictitious pantomime version of Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’, this singalong will substitute ambiguity for jauntiness, and the oblivion of ice and snow for the jolly words pointed out on screen

http://eddydreadnought.tumblr.com

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The Blood that Binds
Laura Edwards and Calum MacAskill, with Janine Fern

Three people, deeply connected, come apart and writhe again. Their own journeys pull them back to home. We never lose contact. The blood binds.

http://www.looptheatre.org

http://cjmacaskill.blogspot.co.uk

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Scheduling Spontaneity
Rebecca Green

Love letters and kisses by commission.  Scheduling Spontaneity  is an ongoing project by the artist Rebecca Green in scheduling spontaneity.

http://rebeccagreenperformance.tumblr.com/

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Walk the Line / The Deadwood Stage
Charlie Murphy and friends

A whole new breed of pantomime pony – to perform a series of guerilla dressage acts. Responding to formal equestrian disciplines and traditional British pageantry, these eccentric, home-made ponies turn some playful tricks and turns in some unusual places.

http://www.charliemurphy.co.uk

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The Man in the Dress and The Principal Female Boy
Greg Sinclair

A musical diptych on gender confusion in pantomime for voice and cello, featuring the pathos-filled ballad of the pantomime dame, and a rousing feminist anthem from a the leading lady whose role has been given to – gasp! – a man.

http://www.gregsinclair.net
http://www.soundcloud.com/gregsinclair

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Uranus
Moreno Solinas

A performance for body and voice. Love and sex, need and fear, spirit and fluid. Entertains the audience with song and performance, then sets them a challenge they weren’t expecting.

http://bloomdancecollective.org/

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Opul
JL Williams and James Iremonger

Opul is poetry and music. Opul likes it when Squarepusher says, “What the fuck is the point of doing anything else? You know, you’re an artist.  It’s like, your responsibility is to experiment.”

http://www.opul.tumblr.com
http://www.jamesiremonger.co.uk
http://www.jlwilliamspoetry.co.uk

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To Elucidate
Jamie Wardrop and Rebecca Morris

Two performers dissect the absurdities of social politics, offering up their own bodies as powerful physical manifestations of anxiety to the scrutiny of the spectator.

http://jamiewardrop.wordpress.com

http://vimeo.com/wardrop

ANATOMY #3: Callout for Proposals

ANATOMY #3:
PANTOMIME FOR THE END OF TIME
Friday 14th December 2012
Summerhall, Edinburgh

CALL OUT FOR PERFORMANCE PROPOSALS

Following on from the sell-out successes of of ANATOMY #1 and #2, we are delighted to announce our return to a more regular spot. ANATOMY #3: PANTOMIME FOR THE END OF TIME is the first in a regular year-round programme of our spectacular performance variety.

A contemporary take on the music hall variety show, ANATOMY is a platform for performance artists of all disciplines. Beyond scratch, it creates a stage for risk-taking performance and breath-taking theatrics in Edinburgh’s exciting new multi-arts venue, Summerhall, within a historic anatomy lecture theatre.

ANATOMY seeks proposals from theatre practitioners, artists, dancers, music makers and destroyers, sculptors, story tellers, film makers, clowns, poets, photographers, mimes, installations, painters, weirdos and burlesques; the abstract, the comical, the terrifying, the sublime, the unfathomable, the beautiful, the life-changing and the oddly mundane.

Proposals should be for pieces of 5-20 minutes in length.

There is, as the more eagle-eyed may have noticed, a vague theme for ANATOMY #3. Celebrating both ‘the season’ and the pre-scheduled end of all life and existence as we know it, we would welcome proposals involving, responding to or becoming a PANTOMIME FOR THE END OF TIME. This theme is loose and you are free to use it strictly, loosely or not at all; adhering to the theme is not a deciding factor in selection.

If ANATOMY is somewhere that you and your art belong, please download an applicaton form from here and return, completed, as a single file, by 9th November 2012 to: anatomynight@gmail.com

Selected acts will have access to rehearsal space in the week before the show, technical support, and a small expenses budget of £30.

Anatomy #2: Workshops 27th September

As part of each edition of ANATOMY, we run professional work for artists and interested folk — aiming to offer as diverse a range of sessions as we do performances. Alongside ANATOMY #2, we are running three workshops, open to all.

12 – 2pm: Jennifer Williams: Writing for Performance
Poet and performer Jennifer Williams (Programme Manager, Scottish Poetry Library, formerly Literary Officer, Traverse Theatre) on ways to write texts for performance: what works, what doesn’t, and how to invent new worlds for words to be performed in.

2.30 – 4:30pm: Rebecca Green: Death Doulas
Artist and celebrant Rebecca Green (Final Fling) on creative approaches to mortality and mourning. A session featuring creative visualisations, relaxation techniques, storytelling and more in an effort to change our perspectives on death.

5.00 – 7.30pm: Emma Brierley: Ensemble Movement and Mask
Designer, producer and performer Emma Brierley (Bread and Puppet Theatre / Circus Kathmandu) on using memory and voice to create emotive choreographies. The session will build choreography from true moments, and explore ensemble movement with mask.

Workshops cost £6 each, or £10 for all three, and are free for the artists who perform with us.

Places are limited, so booking is essential: please email anatomynight@edinburghpeergroup.com with your name and contact details to book.

ANATOMY #2: 28th September

ANATOMY #2: 28th September 2012, 7.30pm, £6

Further to the sell-out success of ANATOMY #1, Edinburgh’s new night of cutting edge performance returns to Summerhall with another line-up of performance in all its wonderful and myriad forms.

Live film soundtrack, nauseous puppetry, tender dance, dystopian crooning, barnacled storytelling, experimental theatre and visual art combine in a truly unique and exciting event that. ANATOMY promises to build on its successful launch, which saw contemporary dance nestle with short films that then went on to Cannes, Vonnegutian theatre, live art and physical performance.

Co-director Harry Giles said:

“Our first night proved that there’s a huge hunger for nights like this in Edinburgh – places where people can come to enjoy new and experimental work, and where artists can share strange and wonderful ideas. We’re delighted to be working with Summerhall on a second edition, and to be part of its growing reputation as a year-round home for art and performance.”

The Artists

Fall of a window cleaner (film / live soundtrack)
Julien Longchamp / Apostrophe Ensemble

Lead by Julien Lonchamp, the Apostrophe Ensemble endeavours to create and perform orchestral scores to original short films, incorporating a contemporary dimension into the traditional craft of film scoring. Fall of a window cleaner tells the surreal tale of a man who gets sucked into the building he is falling from. The soundtrack was developed through workshops with the AIC Ensemble and Mr McFall’s Chamber. The short film was commissioned by the Arches in Glasgow and premiered at the 2011 Arches LIVE Festival. At Anatomy #2 the Apostrophe Ensemble will perform the soundtrack live during the film projection.

The Box (clownery)
Lewis Sherlock and Lisa Hayes

Two characters walk into a bar….well not a bar, it’s more of a box. So, two characters walk into a box…

One is a nuclear physicist and the other,  a Gothic Mistress of Darkness.

I say walked… more –  ended up there. And what happens in the box stays in the box.

Secrets told, fantasies revealed and truths uncovered…

One turns to the other and says….

GlitterGrid (dance / physical)
Jack Webb

GlitterGrid is an extraordinary dance performance of physical and performative transformation. It is a moment where the performer is concerned only with going beyond his physical, emotional and external limits, transforming between moments of euphoria and primal existence with hints of a glittering Rock persona. Contains glitter.

BLACKHOLESUN (lounge singing)
Michelle Hannah

A self portrait as dystopian lounge singer using fragmentation and repetitive appropriation to give an air of otherness and esoteric electronic channelling. The intimate performance uses the founding principles of Cabaret: engage, entice and repulse equally in artifice. For this self portrait Hannah wear a uniform of shadows.

Kopf Hoch, Mut Hoch, Humor Hoch 1 and 2 (film / public art)
Oliver Benton

“The square … of the common people, the square of bazaars, puppet theatres, taverns, that is, the square of European cities in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and subsequent centuries … in earlier times itself constituted a state … it constituted the entire state apparatus with all its official organs. It was the highest court, the whole of science, the whole of art. The entire people participated in it…” – Bakhtin

If the modern social paradigm finds its heart in consumerism, then our town square is the high street, and Oliver Benton is trying trying his best to be the fool.

Demolition in Progress (dance)
Jai Hutchison (choreography); Amira Kremers, Karen McArthur, Elizabeth Rawes and Lucy Wilso (dancers)

“I see before me today so many people on a pathway of destruction.”

A danced exploration into the self-destructive ways of our society that I continue to see around me every day. The work draws on very human experiences, including some very personal journeys of the dancers. It explores the idea of a personal turmoil, an inner struggle that appears when personally looking at the idea of what truly makes us the person we are.

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Not Turning Up (performance / presentation)
JDA Winslow

The UK premier of Not Turning Up, J.D.A. Winslow’s most lauded piece of performance art will be taking place as part of Anatomy #2. The piece will be running throughout the evening with a special two minute presentation taking place at the height of the night.

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Archipelago (storytelling)
Conrad and Willy Molleson

A darkly humorous account about overcoming adversity; having been caught up in a deluge, our forlorn crew voyage from the North-West of Scotland heading toward the Capital city, supported along the way by a colourful narrative and music to aid navigation on this engaging and entertaining journey.

Sanitise (theatre scratch)
Melanie Jordan and Caitlin Skinner

In the most private of places, you can flush the undesirable away in an instant. But what is dirty and what is clean? Sanitise is a solo performance set in a bathroom about a woman who is confused. It’s about desire, cleanliness and liberation and it’s inspired by conversations with ordinary, everyday women. Basically, it’s about sex. It’s a work-in-progress and we want to know what you think.

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it could be lost (dance / physical)
Monika Smekot and Iraya Noble

How long it takes to breathe in and out?
How long it takes to forgive?
How long it takes to make a decision?

What is the distance between your steps?
What is the gap between rain drops?
What is the space between the flower and the root?

In Time and Space the RHYTHM is born – present in each cell of the body and each particle of the universe. Everything has its own unique beat that has important part in great symphony of life. Fear, judgment and ego can make us deaf to hear what our honest life force is.

‘it could be lost’ is a short rhythmical poem about the importance of recognising the uniqueness of our personal rhythm and keeping it alive.

Maximum Exposure (film / movement)
Haleh Jamali and Monica De Ioanni

In this video triptych, the same figure appears in an empty room where shows her struggle to signify her emotional and motional personal space. First: a bird’s-eye view. She moves in both choreographed and improvised sequences and tries to re-create her psychological and kinesthetic space that appears to be violated. Second: she appears in confrontational close-up portrait. Through her gaze she reveals her sense of herself as an individual. Third: she appears to be spinning clockwise, a process for finding a balance within her surrounding environment and strengthening her sense of self and individuality.

Shambolica Presents… Something A Little Tasty (clownery)
Shambolica

“Roll up! Roll up! See the surreal comedic shat-fest of SHAMBOLICA! Gather round to witness the amazing Klaus the Clown and Baron Punch perform stupendous acts of art eccentricities and puppetry, which will stupefy and offend.

Shambolica Presents… will be a one night only event where the primary purpose is pure unadulterated entertainment and intoxication of the mind, senses and soul. Shambolica will improvise a situation comedy for all, and none, of the family!

Through a mix of puppetry, improv, theatre, music and audience interaction Shambolica have designed and constructed a set, of sorts, for their own show, where the viewer will be invited to paint, laugh, join in communal music making, drink, draw and cry. The audience are encouraged to take part in the ‘scene’ and embrace the event as an evolving art piece that knows no boundaries.

Anatomy #2: Callout for Performers

~a performance variety~
Friday 28th September
Summerhall, Edinburgh

CALL OUT FOR PERFORMANCE PROPOSALS

Further to the success of of ANATOMY #1, we are delighted to announce our return.

ANATOMY is a new platform for performance artists of all disciplines; beyond scratch, it creates a stage for risk-taking performance and breath-taking theatrics in Edinburgh’s exciting  new multi-arts venue, Summerhall, within a historic anatomy lecture theatre.

ANATOMY seeks proposals from theatre practitioners, artists, dancers, sculptors, story tellers, film makers, clowns, poets, mimes, installations, painters, weirdos and burlesques; the abstract, the comical, the terrifying, the sublime, the unfathomable, the beautiful, the life-changing and the oddly mundane.

Proposals should be for performances or pieces under 10 minutes of length. However, there is scope for two longer, up to 20 minutes, pieces. If you wish to apply for these, please make a case for your longer time needs in the application.

ANATOMY is a not-for-profit voluntary organisation, and so we cannot currently offer artist fees, though as artists ourselves we certainly plan to be able to in the future. However, as part of participation, you will be offered free places in our professional artist workshops, which we are running as a new strand of ANATOMY this time round. We will also work hard to cover all technical and publicity requirements to support your work as strongly as possible.

Please download an application form and return by 14th August 2012 to: anatomynight@edinburghpeergroup.com

We will contact all applicants with the results by 28th August 2012.