TUFT: the Strange, the Magical and the Messy
CHARLOTTE TINGLEY
Bold new performance company TUFT, who brought you Concert At The Castle and Concert In The Caves, is thrilled to announce the launch of a new ongoing series of multidisciplinary performance events. Each one is themed, exploratory, and rooted in TUFT’s core values of vitality, vulnerability, collaboration and participatory audience engagement. They create rigorous, raw, playful and participatory work in unexpected spaces. They believe in the power of failure, the strange, the magical and the messy.
Ellie Westbrook
These events will take place every other month in reimagined and unconventional spaces across Hastings and are set to become a regular platform for artists and audiences alike to play, create, connect, and collide.
The first in the series, Belief Systems – Magic, will take place on 11 June at Hatton’s Yard (Joyful Roots) in St Leonards-On-Sea, inviting audiences to step into a realm of conjuring, illusion, and wonder. With a curated line-up of experimental performance, music, song, and conversation, this opening night will explore magic and magicians – real, deceptive, playful and/or profound.
Audiences are encouraged to bring their own magical stories, tricks or talismans to contribute to the evening’s unfolding. Whether dressed as a wizard, a starry night or a vague and ungraspable interpretation of enchantment – everyone is welcomed as both participant and spectator.
Our goal is to support a community of curious makers and to offer space for the wonderful, the imperfect, and the experimental. Future themes in the Belief Systems series will explore an expanding range of ideas, from language to technology, risk and history, all offering material for creative adventure and discussion.
Featured artists are: Eleanor Westbrook, Artistic Director of TUFT and creator of beautiful weirdness, Tullis Rennie, composer and musical improviser, Jess Mabel Jones, joy-driven multidisciplinary art-maker, and Spirit Doll, gender-expansive artist and performer.
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