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Walking Stumbling Limping Falling: A Conversation

Artist/Author: ​Alyson Hallett and Phil Smith | Reference: P3225 | ISBN: 978-1-911193-06-7 | Type: Publication

An email conversation between a noted poet.walker and a noted performance.walker about being temporarily prevented from walking ‘normally’ by illness/surgery. Their reflections cover cultural perceptions and personal values associated with walking, personal anecdotes, philosophical reflection, practices for daily-life and an alphabet of falling.

Going

Artist/Author: The Theatre of Mistakes | Reference: P3229 | ISBN: 978-1903006030 | Type: Publication

Performance text; performers have to learn all the parts while trying to be each other rather than presuming to enact characters.

Oogly Boogly

Artist/Author: Guy Dartnell, Tom Morris, Emma Gladstone | Reference: D2235 | Type: DVD

What happens when a 12-18 month old is let loose in a soft, safe space with someone who follows and reflects their every sound, move and mood? The interaction between babies, performers and the audience of parents and carers is what makes this an utterly unpredictable event.

Includes a 10 minute edit and a video of the 45 minute performance a the 2005 Melbourne Festival.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).

Forced Entertainment images

Reference: D2234 | Type: DVD

Images from In 12 am: Awake & Looking Down and Quizoola!

The Cockettes

Artist/Author: David Weissman and Bill Weber | Reference: D2231 | Type: DVD

Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s. Includes deleted scenes, interview with directors and a booklet with Damon Wise film notes.

100 minutes

The Pennine Way: The Legs That Made Us

Editor: Tamara Ashley and Simone Kenyon | Reference: P2973 | ISBN: 9780954907310 | Type: Publication

In the summer of 2006, the two artists travelled across the Pennine Way creating a choreographic pathway – a shared journey and celebration of walking as dance and dancer as traveller.

Devising in Process

Editor: Alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart | Reference: P2958 | ISBN: 978-0230573673 | Type: Publication

The book examines the creative processes of eight theatre companies making devising-based performances: The People Show, Station House Opera, Shunt, The Red Room, Faulty Optic Theatre of Animation, theatre O, Gecko and Third Angel.

Quizoola!

Artist/Author: Forced Entertainment | Reference: P2860 | Type: DVD

Part game, part improvisation, this unique 24-hour live experience pits alternating pairs of performers against one another as they test their opponents with an avalanche of questions.

Recording on a hard drive.

Recorded 12-13 April 2013 at the Barbican; part of SPILL.

This item can be found in the locked glass cabinet.

Art Against the Clock

Artist/Author: Teik-Kim Pok | Reference: A0620 | Type: Article

Review of the performance One Thing Follows Another by Gail Priest and Jane McKernan, at Performance Space in Sydney, Australia, August 2014.

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