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Dateline: 1st December, 2009
Eno Is Guest Artistic Director at Brighton Brian Eno is to be guest artistic director for the 2010 Brighton Festival. His influence will also be felt right across the Festival programme as his key interests and ideas, ranging from social creativity to climate change and the environment to a focus on generative art are taken up by the Festival's programmers. These topics will weave a thread through the genres of theatre, dance, books and debate, music and outdoor events. Three of Eno's own works will feature in the programme: 77 Million Paintings, a sound and image-scape which premiered in Tokyo in 2006; Icebreaker will perform a music arrangement of the 1983 album Apollo (Atmospheres & Soundtracks) by Eno live to the film of the original NASA footage of the Apollo moon landing; and a specially commisioned sound installation that will be mounted in various public locations across the city. Also in the programme is the world premiere of Hofesh Shechter’s first full-length work Political Mother, performed by ten dancers of the Hofesh Shechter Company and accompanied by Shechter’s cinematic score played by a live band of drummers and guitarists. Rimini Protokoll will present the UK premiere of Best Before. Created by Helgard Haug and Stefan Kaegi, It pulls the multi-player video game out of the virtual realm and plugs it into an intimate theatre setting . A simulated city evolves as each of 200 spectators adds their personal touch, game controller in hand. At first you are an anonymous avatar but then you take on human dimensions as audience members clash, collaborate and negotiate the forces that shape reality here in the third millennium. dreamthinkspeak, Associate Artists of Brighton Dome and Festival, will present the World Premiere of their new project commissioned by Brighton Festival; a site-responsive, promenade installation inspired by The Cherry Orchard, marking the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov’s birth. The 44th Brighton Festival runs from Saturday 1st to Sunday 23rd May, 2010.
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