CLoSer presents Spirit of the Voice
Wednesday 29/2 @ Village Underground
CLoSer is a series of concerts by the City of London Sinfonia, which aims to eschew the traditional seating and venues of classical music, dragging it into 21st-century Shoreditch life (and the more-intimate confines usuallly reserved for flailing clubbers). Village Underground is the location of this second installment of the series, which focuses on orchestral pieces for voice, including performances of European classics old and new such as Poulenc's "Suite Francaise", JS Bach's "French Suite" and Nystedt's "Immortal Bach."...
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Today @ Donmar Warehouse
Rebellion and murder take the stage in one of Shakespeare’s lesser known histories, Richard II. Typically seen as a tragedy, the play follows the decline of a young king (played by Olivier Award-winning Eddie Redmayne) as he loses grip on power. As the final production of the Donmar’s acclaimed artistic director, Michael Grandage, choosing his swansong to be a play about a Machiavellian pretender to the throne threatening execution may seem peculiar. Yet perhaps in this light the production of an epic story about power will be even more intriguing....
Lis Rhodes: Dissonance and Disturbance
Today @ Institute of Contemporary Arts
This retrospective of works by Lis Rhodes includes four decades of her often radical and always experimental video treatments, which rarely get exhibited in a gallery setting. Her classic work Dresden Dynamo (1971), created without the use of a video camera, was the result of a chance discovery by Rhodes that the application of Letraset to a 35mm negative created specific musical tones when played back. Recent works such as In the Kettle (2010) explore more explicitly political territory.
Today @ GV Art
This exhibition at GV Art London sees 14 artists explore the concept of trauma. This being GV Art, the focus is very much on the scientific, with Luke Jerram producing ethereal glass sculptures of bacteria magnified many times. Rachel Gadsden's drawings externalise the physical sensations of her own disability while Anais Tondeur draws on the botanical mutations of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Today @ The Old Vic Tunnels
The Old Vic Tunnels beneath Waterloo station play host to a performance of The Sea Plays by Eugene O'Neill. The playwright spent several years working aboard ships , crafting seven sea plays in total although only three are featured here - The Long Voyage Home, Bound East For Cardiff and In The Zone. Some of his earliest works and rarely seen on stage, the plays were later adapted into a film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne.
