Miss High Leg Kick’s ‘Audition Project’ brings together 75 UK-based artists onto the Birmingham Hippodrome stage in a snapshot of the performing arts in 2016.
Over the course of a single day they will learn and re-create the opening audition scene from the 1985 film ‘A Chorus Line’. The process will be filmed shot by shot by Richard DeDomenici to match the original film scene – for a Redux film.
‘Audition Project’ explores themes of ambition, creativity and dance, and the challenges faced by artists in a difficult funding environment.
Starring Christopher Brett Bailey, Katy Baird, Lewis Barfoot, Claire Benjamin, Sarah Blanc, Duo Bogof (Sue Hart and Matthew Bowyer), Blanche Du Bois, Ira Brand, Barbara Brownskirt (Karen Mcleod), Marisa Carnesky, Fancy Chance, Le Gateau Chocolat, Adam Clifford, Chris Dobrowolski, Cheryl Dole, Abi Cunliffe, Dicky Eton, Andy Field, Sam Fox (Kiln Ensemble), Anna Frisch, Sue Frumin, Becca Fuller, Chris Gayford, Ruby Glaskin, Susannah Hewlett, Catherine Hoffman, Kazuko Hohki, Hunt & Darton (Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton), Lucy Hutson, Danielle Imara, Mamoru Iriguchi, Tim Jeeves, Bob Karper, Miss High Leg Kick, Paul Kieve, Amy Kingsmill, Gillie Kleiman, Noemi Lakmaier, Jessica Latowicki (Made In China), Lisa Lee, Jordan Lennie, Brian Lobel, Stacy Makishi, Tom Marshman, Ursula Martinez, Lucy McCormick, Joseph Mercier, Charlie Murphy, Nao Nagai, Steve Nice, Yoko Nishimura, Project O (Alexandrina Hemsley and Jamila Johnson-Small), Harold Offeh, Lucille Power, Tim Redfern, Marcus Reeves, Bernadette Russell, Annie Siddons, Joshua Sofaer, Boogaloo Stu, Rhyannon Styles, Figs in Wigs (Rachel Gammon, Rachel Porter, Sarah Moore and Suzanna Hurst), Olivia Winteringham, Caroline Wright and Joyce Kay Jay Yung.
Also starring Simon Casson as “Zach”, Anthony Roberts as “Larry” and Christopher Green as “Sheila”.
BIOGRAPHIES
Miss High Leg Kick is an artist whose work has taken her from intimate cabaret performance to the creation of large-scale outdoor events. She specialises in highly accessible work defined by creative approaches to audience engagement, humour and a love of spectacle.
Richard DeDomenici
Richard DeDomenici makes work that’s social, joyful, topical and political - although rarely simultaneously. Last year DeDomenici adapted his inexplicably popular Redux Project for television as part of the BBC4 event Live From Television Centre.
About LADA Screens
LADA Screens is a series of free, online screenings of seminal performance documentation, works to camera, short films/video and archival footage. It is part of Live Online, LADA’s dedicated space where you can watch short videos and films drawn from LADA’s Study Room or generated through our programmes and initiatives.
Each screening will be available to view for a limited time only, and will be launched with a live event at the White Building in Hackney Wick, London. Online art magazine, thisistomorrow will also feature the films on their website for the duration of the screenings.
LADA Screens is curated by the Live Art Development Agency (LADA). LADA is a ‘Centre for Live Art’: a knowledge centre, a production centre for programmes and publications, a research centre setting artists and ideas in motion, and an online centre for digital experimentation, representation and dissemination.
For more information about LADA Screens please contact Alex Eisenberg.
