The next Platform is the 20th/21st of April 2012

Line-up April 2012

AUSFORM PERFORMANCE PLATFORM / 20th/ 7,8.15,9pm / prices vary - at the CUBE cubecinema.com

...and we're back with our twice yearly platform of new ideas in performance by artists that we think are exciting. Remember this is a place of risk, tears, success and bewilderment, so please join us with an warm mind and an open heart.

7pm 'I like the way you wear your hair' by Greg Wohead £5

Welcome to Greg’s bedroom in Mesquite, Texas, 1998. A show about visiting a past version of yourself. It’s about stomach butterflies, private thoughts and marching band conveyed through simple storytelling and projected drawings. Greg tells you — from the perspective of a geeky teenager—the true story of the night he took a chance.

8.15pm You remind me of someone I once knew by CODA Dance £4

London based contemporary dance company fuse technical dance with physical theatre based movement. Inspired and spurred by emotional heft, Nikki (choreographer) threading her own life experiences into each piece; she expects emotional and physical endurance from her dancers.

9pm Amusements (work-in-progress) by Sleepwalk Collective £6 (limited capacity)

Like some backroom carnival ride / lo-fi sci-fi pleasure machine/psychedelic Hispan-ploitation micro-epic / end-of-the-pier minimalist live-art spectacular, AMUSEMENTS is an insolent, tempestuous new solo work for theatres. Intensely sensorial, using a complex score of

live and pre-recorded text and music experienced through headphones, the performance is both a joyous dance towards the limits of pleasure and an unsettlingly voyeuristic tribute to our private desires.

On Saturday the 21st we continue with installation work at the Parlour on College Green in Bristol, Times and Prices TBC

Jackie Vitale: Apothecary
Apothecary is an exploration of wellness through action and agency. It’s about being bold. It’s about traditions of folk medicine and self-healing. It's also about getting people to take love potions.

Matt Foster :
Visitors to a World’s Fair or International Expo surely just want to not have to eat their sandwiches in the rain and to hopefully have a nice day out. Instead, from the represented nations, they usually get political posturing or at he very least an attempt to encapsulate the ideals of an entire nation in one small pavilion. Then after 18 months these grand gestures disappear – unless they happen to get a reprise, like The

Eiffel Tower or Seattle’s Space Needle. Matt Foster will bring his own pavilion to Ausform where these ideas of internationalism from a purely national standpoint and the temporality of permanence will be explored.

Line-up Nov 2011

'Flog' by Isabelle Cressy, performed by Tilly Webber

We Can Stay All Day - The Clockwork Moth   http://www.theclockworkmoth.com/

'Keine Angst' by Ira Brand 

Our evenings will culminate in a free post-work party where we open the space 
for you to share your thoughts, have a drink and dance the night away.

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From top; Natasha Fewings False Idols at Bristol Old Vic - Photo by Paul Blakemore of Neat Studios

LUR - Disco Terror at the Cube - Video Still by Bruce Duncan