Dr Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk was recently invited to deliver a paper at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance ‘Igniting Creativity: Art, Education, Transformation and Change’ conference in January 2025. Rachel was peaking about the notion of correspondence in relation to their…
Our recent collaboration with Big Telly Theatre in Northern Ireland and colleagues at the School of Digital Art has been recognised by The Stage. Granny Jackson’s Dead, an immersive performance that intertwines traditional Irish wake customs with advanced technology, has…
Intercultural Roots and Puma Camillê Producoes (Brazil) are delighted to receive £75,000 funding from the International Collaboration Grants, run by the British Council to support the creation of new cultural collaborations between UK artists, arts professionals and organisations and their peers…
A new project has been awarded Heritage Lottery Funding to collect, preserve and celebrate Queer Up North Aiming to develop, build and curate one of the UK’s most significant archives of historical LGBTQIA+ materials focussing on the QUN Festivals between1992-2002…
Future Flares Festival returns once again, with a curated programme of innovative politically engaged performances, plus related talks and workshops. This year’s line-up will feature work from radical performance makers including ‘Get Off’, an ‘in yer face’ look at desire by Katy…
Members of the Performance Research Group are involved in editing an issue of Performance Research ‘On Scores’ following our conference on the same theme at HOME, Scoring Performance, Performing Scores, in July 2023. This issue will be co-edited by Kevin Egan, Michael Pinchbeck,…
Direct from a sold-out run in London, Andrew Scott (Ripley, All of Us Strangers) brings to life multiple characters in Tony Award® winner (and Performance Research Group member) Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version…
The Manchester Game Centre is proud to support an exhibition of two VR artworks by Performance Research Group member, Adinda van’t Klooster: the AudioVirtualizer (2019) and VRoar (2023). You can experience these artworks and take part in a playtest and…
The Dance, Drama and Performing Arts Pathway of the Northwest Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP) is pleased to invite applications from prospective PhD candidates for AHRC-funded studentships for September 2025 entry. More information here. NWCDTP PARTNERS Lancaster UniversityManchester Metropolitan UniversityUniversity…
In January 2024, Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk performed A String Section with Reckless Sleepers in the Future Flares Festival at Manchester Metropolitan University. The performance was accompanied by a practical workshop, which she delivered on behalf of the company; the workshop explored themes within…
