[spectre] Cosmonaut joins artists for zero gravity season

[Inke Arns]

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From:           	"The Arts Catalyst" <info@artscatalyst.org>
Subject:        	Cosmonaut joins artists for zero gravity season
Date sent:      	Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:49:40 -0000


Dreams of Flying turn into Reality


ARTISTS & COSMONAUTS: The New Futurists at Sadlers Wells

1 March, 2 March, 15 March, 19 April 2002

In the last two years, an extraordinary mix of artists, dancers, scientist=
s and
musicians have joined forces with Russia's space programme to create work =
in a
zero gravity world where there is no up or down: a modernist laboratory fo=
r
making art for the cosmos.

>From afro-futurism to oriental fantasies of flying carpets, datasuits to
dance movement analysis, the Arts Catalyst, the science-art agency, rounde=
d up
the best projects for floating in air and transported them to the Yuri Gag=
arin
Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia, in collaboration with Proj=
ekt
Atol, Slovenia, to turn dreams of flying into reality

Now London audiences have a chance to sample the art of weightlessness as
practised in space conditions - not computer simulations, but in a large j=
et
aircraft converted into an artists' studio - diving at 25,000 feet.

With cosmonaut hero Sergei Krikalev - one of the longest term inhabitants =
of MIR
- he was the 'last Soviet citizen' stranded aloft during the coup against
Gorbachev - and now building the International Space Station, a performanc=
e by
Kitsou Dubois, the first ever zero-G dancer, and an Anglo-Russian mix of
performance, video and lectures, this season gives London audiences a tast=
e of
the art of tomorrow.

Artists & Cosmonauts has been enabled with the generous support of London
Arts Board and Visiting Arts.  The Arts Catalyst's space programme is
supported by London Arts Board, the Arts Council of England, the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation, SciArt Awards, Imperial College Visual Arts
Programme, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine.

Friday 1 March, Saturday 2 March, Friday 19 April 2002

Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadlers Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1

Nearest tube: Angel



Friday 15th March only: Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1

Nearest tubes: Regents Park, Oxford Circus



All events begin at 8PM.



March 1    BODIES IN SPACE

Ansuman Biswas and Jem Finder, Anna Alchuk, Masha Chuikova, Anthony Bull,
Kevin Fong, Morag Wightman and Craos Mor

March 2    ARTISTS & COSMONAUTS

Alexei Blinov, Andrew Kotting, Marko Peljhan, philosopher Mikhail Ryklin,
Andrey & Julia Velikanov, the Zero Genies, music by Hallucinator

March 15  SERGEI KRIKALEV at Institute of Physics

Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev in conversation with artists (at Institute of
Physics),

April 19    A DANCER IN WEIGHTLESSNESS

Kitsou Dubois, Nick Davey and colleagues, Biodynamics Group, Imperial
College



ZERO GRAVITY WORKSHOP - 2 March, 11 am - 3 pm

Take part in zero gravity workshops to gain a better understanding of how
gravity forms and influences our bodies and the world and cosmos around us=
.
Experience moments of "zero gravity", challenge your balance and orientati=
on,
try the freedom of aerial suspension and explore the history of gravity, w=
ith
zero gravity dancer Morag Wightman and performance artist Tim Millar.


Join the new futurists, book all three Lilian Baylis events for UK =A3 15 =
(UK =A3 12
concessions) or UK =A36 (UK =A35 concessions) each night.

Krikalev talk UK =A3 5 (UK =A3 3 concessions)

Zero gravity workshops UK =A3 8 (UK =A3 6 concessions)



Box office (all events) tel: 020 7863 8000

Book on-line: www.sadlerswells.com


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