Variety Acts

at the De La Warr Pavilion

Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 November
- from 12 noon daily
- all daytime events are free.

For full details of Variety Acts and the Variety exhibition visit www.dlwp.com

Bookings: 01424 229111


Artists’ Biographies.

 

Miss High Leg Kick

Originating in the world of cabaret, Miss High Leg Kick has created a highly idiosyncratic subversion of burlesque-style glamour that has been reinvented and remixed in events such as Duckie's award winning C'est Barbican.

 

Geraldine Pilgrim

Geraldine Pilgrim is Artistic Director of Corridor, a performance company that creates site- specific events in unusual buildings often working in collaboration with young people, older people and arts and community groups. She co-founded the influential performance company Hesitate and Demonstrate and has since been making installations, theatre based performance and large scale site -specific events such as hotel in the 1930s Midland Hotel on Morecambe Bay and Spa at the empty Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital London.

 

Curious

Curious are Helen Paris and Leslie Hill, internationally acclaimed for their edgy, humorous interrogations of contemporary culture and politics. Their work embraces live performance, digital media, installation, publication, film, and video. They have produced over 30 innovative works, such as the recent double bill Family Hold Back and Smoking Gun as well as collaborations with national and international artists and companies including On the Scent, and Lost & Found. Their work has been exhibited and published widely and appreciated by audiences and critics internationally.

 

Richard Dedomenici

Richard Dedomenici is a one-man subversive think-tank renown for his poetic acts of low-grade civil disobedience and anarcho-surrealist interventions.

 

Gary Stevens

A Visiting Research Fellow at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Gary Stevens developed his work in live performance from installation and film and, since 1984, has created ensemble and solo works for galleries and theatres as well as site-specific projects. His work has always been funny and seemingly simple, combining the possibility of a complex structure with an ephemeral existence.

 

Tim Etchells and Adrian Heathfield

Tim Etchells is the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, the UK’s leading performance ensemble who have been working together since 1984. He has also created diverse projects of his own in a variety of media including SMS, video, installation and print. As a writer and director he has long been fascinated by the ghosts and media echoes of variety.  Adrian Heathfield writes on and curates contemporary performance. He is the editor of Live: Art and Performance (Tate Publishing, 2004), and co-curated Live Culture at Tate Modern in March 2003, and Forced Entertainment’s twelve hour durational performance-lecture Marathon Lexicon.

 

Duckie

Founded in 1995 Duckie are the celebrated and award winning purveyors of ‘progressive working-class entertainment’.  Working with some of the UK’s most exciting and radical performance artists, the legendary London club’s events build on the history of vaudeville but bring it bang into the 21st century with events that seek to be both populist and avant-garde in equal measure.

 

Marcia Farquhar

Working in museums, galleries and site specific locations, Marcia Farquhar's performances have often been described as 'entertaining' and 'humorous', but she prefers to hear them described as 'intense and precarious'. She does however like the sound of laughter. Her practice encompasses performance, installation, painting, photography and script writing, and much of her work has been concerned with the telling and retelling of stories from both private and public areas of experience.

 

Robin Deacon

Robin Deacon is a performer, writer and video artist whose work utilises a journalistic, documentary approach, using the lecture format to re-enact autobiographical incidents. Recent performances include Colin Powell, a biographical portrait of the former US Secretary of State, Harry & Me, an exploration of tokenism and unreliable memory, and Live, a series of performances documented by the medium of television. Much of his work is characterised by a humorous satirical approach to his subject matter.

 

Rose English

Rose English has been writing, directing and performing her own work for thirty years in venues as various as the Tate Britain; Royal Court; Queen Elizabeth Hall; the Adelaide Festival; and Lincoln Center, New York. Her productions feature a diversity of co-performers including musicians dancers, circus performers, magicians and horses. Rose’s shows range from acclaimed solos in the 1980s such as Plato’s Chair and The Beloved to large-scale spectaculars in the 1990s including Walks on Water, The Double Wedding and Tantamount Esperance.

 

De La Warr Pavilion
Marina
Bexhill On Sea
East Sussex
TN40 1DP

Box Office 01424 229111

Website www.dlwp.com