May 21st, 2016
The Bluecoat, Liverpool
SATURDAY 21ST MAY 10am-5pm
An alchemy of perspectives: Viewpoints improvisation opens up individual and collective choices using space and time, and FAILURE Lab draws from contact improvisation, comedy, voice, and continuous writing. Combining these approaches will heighten our sense of ‘here and now’, through choice-making in improvisation, and a critical awareness of popular culture. Deborah Black is an American dance and theatre artist, now based in the Netherlands. Mary Pearson is an interdisciplinary performance maker based in Liverpool.
http://www.physicalfest.com/physical-theatre-workshops/
Metal Culture, Edge hill station, Liverpool
FAILURE Lab is open to anyone interested in body-based performance. Improvising and devising using the movement, voice and text, and creating images with objects and materials. It especially engages participants to question societal narratives, and the boundaries of their artistic disciplines.
This time we are at Metal where I will be a resident artist until June 2016
WEDNESDAYS IN APRIL April 13, 20, 27, from 6:30-8:45 pm
TUESDAYS IN MAY May 3, 10, 17, from 6:30-8:45 pm
contact me for registration details
The Bluecoat, Liverpool
Weekly class, led at different times by local dancers, Open to all bodies and levels of experience.
contact: Mary Prestidge m.prestidge@blueyonder.co.uk for more information
FoMO, mofos! (Fear of Missing Out, motherf***ers!)
A kaleidoscopic meditation on the digital age state of being. Modern myth, cautionary tale and cinematic visual feast.
LEAP Festival, Liverpool
Edge Hill University Arts Centre, Ormskirk
Chisenhale Dance Space, London
5th May, 2017
Autumn 2017 tour to be announced.
The Sand Dog Cometh
A multi-disciplinary solo homage to the avante-garde, to kitsch, shtick, snobbery, trash and easy laughs.
Written, directed, and performed by MARY PEARSON (USA/UK). Visual collaboration with SOPHIE MALMBERG (DK/Berlin).
The House, Plymouth University
9th March, 2016
Noh Space, San Francisco, CA, USA
28th & 29th January 2016
PADL West with Arts and Lectures Series at California State University San Marcos
2nd February 2016
The Rose Theatre at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk
November 10th, 2015
The Unity Theatre Liverpool, Liverpool
October 14th, 2015
Decoda presents at the Ellen Terry Building, Coventry University
October 8th, 2015
Camden People's Theatre, SPRINT festival, London
March 24th, 2015
Capstone Theatre, Hope University, Liverpool
November 18th, 2014
WORKS IN PROGRESS
performed as a double bill with Jamie Wood at
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter
April 4th & 5th, 2014
And as part of Physical Fest 2014
The Unity Theatre, Liverpool
May 24th, 2014
FAILURE (& other opportunities for non-linear success)
Solo performance bringing together visual absurdity with contemporary dance, comedy and social commentary. Written, directed and performed by Mary Pearson.
In collaboration with Jules Beckman, Hannah Silva, Mamoru Iriguchi, and Jamie Wood
Camden People's Theatre: SPRINT Festival, London
March 2nd, 2013
The Nightingale Theatre: Brighton Fringe, Brighton
May 22nd, 23rd & 24th, 2013
The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter
May 26th & 27th, 2013
The Unity Theatre: Physical Fest, Liverpool
May 31st, 2013
Ponderosa Tanzland Festival, Stolzenhagen, Germany
July 13, 2013
The Rose Theatre at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk
October 3rd, 2013
The Unity Theatre, Liverpool
October 30th, 2013
Summerhall, Edinburgh
December 7th, 2013
The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter
April 1st & 3rd 2014
Performing Arts Studio Scotland, PASS Theatre, Edinburgh
12th June 2014
Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol
November 8th, 11pm
FAILURE (out of context) from mary pearson on Vimeo.
April 5th & 6th 2013
'L'Âme-de-Fonds' Festival de Danse Composition Instantanée. La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
A spontaneous collaboration between Mary Pearson and visual artist/performer Anne-Sophie Malmberg (Berlin).
Uses vocal score from FAILURE (& other opportunities for non-linear success) originally devised with Hannah Silva (UK).
4th December 2011
The Penny Readings at St. George's Hall, Liverpool
Raven Sinclair-Edmonds (USA), Merseyside Poet Laureate and Distinguished Chair in English Letters. Ranked #1 female poet in the world for 'Girth of Venus' and recipient of the 1999 Poetry Society of America's Oxcart Prize. She now lives in the Wirral.
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