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  • There was first one unintentional, but soon irresistable element in the GUEST PERFORMANCES selected for the festival programme. Be it British avantgard theatre or French new circus, Finnish men in the tent or Lithuanian theatre stars on the stage of the National, German performance artists' project with local schoolchildren or series of joyful musicals... all these works talk about catastrophes, both personal and global, small and overwhelming, painful and funny.

     

  • INTERSECTION: INTIMACY AND SPECTACLE is a collection of seven performative installations that enter the realm between public and private, life and theatre, noise and silence, standstill and motion. It’s a live exhibition that will talk to you only if you talk back to it. It will tell you stories, and the more time you spend there the more it will speak to you. It will teach you to dance, and it will ask you to listen. It will require positioning and it will let you get lost. If you are afraid of intimacy – you better not enter.

     

  • What will become of the world in ten years time if people don't change their habits and attitude towards nature's resources? What do artists have to say about the impact we make on the climate, biological diversity and other actions that affect our planet? Are their voices heard? The experimental platform PROVE III features works by three young Latvian directors who engaged in making performances that reflect their vision of the world in year 2020.

  • DISTANCE is a roaming performance festival that explores our relationship with distance, now and into the future. This year, DISTANCE invites artists inspired by the distances between Riga, London and Newcastle to create new work that responds to three cities, three festivals, and you.  Each work is an evolving experiment made by curious artists over the duration of three months. DISTANCE takes place at Homo Novus in Riga, LIFT in London, and Wunderbar in Newcastle from 3 September – 6 November. DISTANCE is curated and  produced by Joon Lynn Goh and Simone Kenyon, with guest curator, Ilana Mitchell. www.fromadistance.co.uk