Sooo... I went to NIAMOS for my techinical visit on Saturday. NIAMOS is a creative co-operative run exhibition, arts, and performance space with a micro bakery, music studios, a kitchen and a holistic well-being space in what is basically the largely derelict Hulme Playhouse, which shares the building with the rather more intact but also derelict Hulme Hippodrome, both built in 1902 and sharing an interesting and illustrious history, as such venues do.
Having previously performed for previous Emergency's exclusively in Z-Arts - a building I am thus quite familiar with - this was a new and unexpected series of spaces - and a fascinating place to visit. I have been moved from a place of familiarity to a place of strangeness. Although Emergency are staging a lot of work in the NIAMOS-based daytime part of Emergency - the evening events will take place at Z-Arts and Stun Studio as normal - but the building has the space to swallow a lot of performance.
I will be performing in the rear stalls and sharing the space - the stalls and stage - with only three other performances.
Somehow, the scale and character of the building and the space I have been allocated is unnervingly more than I expected and has made me rethink my performance and how it will be staged considerably. My low-key pop-up performance needs more theatre and more thought. And there is less than two weeks to go.
Having previously performed for previous Emergency's exclusively in Z-Arts - a building I am thus quite familiar with - this was a new and unexpected series of spaces - and a fascinating place to visit. I have been moved from a place of familiarity to a place of strangeness. Although Emergency are staging a lot of work in the NIAMOS-based daytime part of Emergency - the evening events will take place at Z-Arts and Stun Studio as normal - but the building has the space to swallow a lot of performance.
I will be performing in the rear stalls and sharing the space - the stalls and stage - with only three other performances.
Somehow, the scale and character of the building and the space I have been allocated is unnervingly more than I expected and has made me rethink my performance and how it will be staged considerably. My low-key pop-up performance needs more theatre and more thought. And there is less than two weeks to go.