Culture Recovery Fund Success Lancashire-based digital arts company imitating the dog benefits from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. The company, which stages theatre productions and projection-mapping works for outdoor events, will receive £37,500 from the second round of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, and will be among more than 2,700 recipients to […]
Over to Laura Atherton, one of our new cohort of Associate Practitioners 2021, as she explains more about her work and her involvement with ITD: ‘I remember travelling to my audition for imitating the dog. It was 2007, I was 21 and the short train journey from Wigan to Lancaster was spent nervously going […]
imitating the dog is over twenty years old now and we haven’t really celebrated the milestones that have marked the company’s evolution; ten years, twenty years etc. We’re not so good at this kind of thing, maybe because we’re slightly embarrassed about our longevity, or wary of public displays of affection, or maybe, we’re […]
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 […]