PRESS RELEASE Date 19 Feb 2021 For Immediate Release STREET is a new participatory project made by imitating the dog theatre company, The Brewery Arts Centre, and the people of Cumbria. STREET is one of 40 new projects taking place in and around 40 arts centres as part of Here and Now, a national and local […]
I feel like there’s been a lot of learning going on this year, how to cope with the day-to-day changes we’ve all had to make, how to do things online you’d rather do in person, managing home schooling, understanding what on earth the government is asking us to do each week… the list seems […]
Junior Akinola, Chair of the Board, Contact “Looking at the arts as a has whole at the moment, it’s clear that it’s one of the hardest hit areas by the pandemic. The whole ecosystem of the arts relies on collaboration and communication at its core to function most productively so with that removed it’s […]
Hannah Fox, Freelance Artist “I grew up in the 1970’s ‘on the road’ with the legendary collective of artists Welfare State International, a wild and evolving band of musicians, performers, dancers, pyrotechnicians, sculptors and writers. We lived in caravans and toured the World making work in communities, creating art and wonder, giving, teaching and […]
Andrew Quick, Co-Artistic Director, ITD “It would be an understatement to say that 2020 has been a testing year. Many of us have been touched by grief, by illness and the loneliness of isolation. Theatre activity has had to retreat from its multiple stages and find new homes in the digital, and, when possible, […]
Over to our Learning and Access Officer Laurence Young: ‘We recently completed a project working with students at the University of Salford, creating two new live graphic novels using the methods we pioneered making Airlock, our Culture in Quarantine commission. Over 6 weeks the students were led through an interdisciplinary performance process, learning how […]
Co-Writer and Director of Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show in conversation with journalist Heather Kincaid (September 2020) When did you have the idea for Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show? Was it just in response to lockdown or did you want to do something like this anyway? I think in some ways it […]
Here’s your invitation to join us on Thursday 8th October 11am – 12pm for a special online Zoom Q&A from our Learning and Access Officer Laurence Young. We’re back hosting another Zoom Q&A, this time all about our latest touring production Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show. Come and join members of the company […]
Press Release Tuesday 15 September 2020 An imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse co-production DR BLOOD’S OLD TRAVELLING SHOW Written and Directed by Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks Projection and Video Design by Simon Wainwright Design by Laura Hopkins Lighting Design by Andrew Crofts Music by James Hamilton Models by Matthew Tully […]
By Laurence Young ‘When I joined imitating the dog as Learning and Access Officer, I was fascinated by our digital magazine; what it already was, and what it could be. Starting out as a fanzine, the magazine was already acting as a kind of archive of work that has already been made, bringing to […]