Ref NoLIFT/1993
TitleLIFT '93 Festival records
DescriptionDocuments relating to the organising and running of LIFT '93.
AdminHistory LIFT '93 was held between 13 June '13 July and the programme consisted of:
Anne Bean & Paul Burwell (UK) 'LIFT Launch 1993' Bankside Power Station 13 June
Beijing Jing Ju Opera Troupe (China) 'The Little Phoenix' Queen Elizabeth Hall 15 '18 June
Bobby Baker (UK) 'How to shop: The Lecture' Tuke Hall, Regent's College 29 '30 June, 2 '4 July and 7 '11 July
Chengdu Theatre Company (China) 'Ripples Across Stagnant Water' Riverside Studios 23 '29 July
Druid Theatre Company (Ireland) 'At the Black Pig's Dyke' Tricycle Theatre 7 '10 July and 12 July
Emergency Exit Arts, the Vietnam Refugee Project, Greenwich primary schools (UK) 'Sang Song - River Crossing' National Maritime Museum 26 '27 June
En Garde Arts (USA) 'Bad Penny' Regent's Park, Boating Lake 30 June '4 July
Gabriel Villela and Company (Brazil) 'A Guerra Santa' Riverside Studios 16 '21 June
Ghana Dance Ensemble (Ghana) 'The Durbar Procession featuring The King's Dilemma' Old Spitalfields Market 23 '27 June
Goran Stefanovski and Slobodan Unkovski in collaboration with artists from Yugoslavia and Europe (Europe) 'Sarajevo - Tales of a City' Riverside Studios 8 '11 July
Graeme Miller (UK) 'The Desire Paths' Royal Court Theatre 14 '19 June
Hanoi Water Puppets (Vietnam) 'Hanoi Water Puppets' National Maritime Museum 23 '27 June, Highbury Fields 30 June '4 July
Mac Wellman (USA) 'Terminal Hip' Institute of Contemporary Arts, Serpentine Gallery 5 '6 July
Platform (various nationalities) 'Homeland/Minha Terra/Szulofold/Fy Ngwlad I' various venues including Jermyn Street (near the HQ of Rio Tinto Zinc), Shortlands (UK HQ of General Electric), St Dunstan's Road (Hungarian Reform Church), Wren Street (opposite the London Welsh Centre) 23 '26 June, 28 June '3 July and 5 '11 June
Red Noise (China, Australia) 'Red Noise' Institute of Contemporary Arts 30 June '3 July
Ron Vawter (USA) 'Roy Cohn/Jack Smith' Institute of Contemporary Arts 9 '12 July
The Company (India) 'Yerma' Tricycle Theatre 21 '26 June and 28 June '3 July
The Costume Designers Club (UK, Europe, Caribbean) 'Journeys from Jourouvert' Old Spitalfields Market 1 '4 July

The Moti Roti Company (UK) 'Moti Roti Putti Chunni' Theatre Royal Stratford East 19 June, 21 '26 June, 29 June '4 July, 6 '11 July
The Puppet Centre (UK) 'Fantastic and True' Roundwood Park, Brent 10 July
The Wooster Group (USA) 'Brace Up!' Riverside Studios 2 '6 July

¡Gran Gran Fiesta! Season:
Mario Bauza and his Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra featuring Graciela and Rudy Calzado (Latin America) Queen Elizabeth Hall 19 June
NG La Banda and Sierra Maestra (Latin America) Le Palais 20 June
Caetano Veloso and his Musicians (Latin America) Royal Festival Hall 27 June
Joe Arroyo y La Verdad The Forum 26 June

Daily Dialogues were held at the Review Restaurant, Royal Festival Hall 14 June '9 July
Bobby Baker, Marina Warner, 'The Spirit of Shopping'
Costume Designers Club, 'Mas Camp'
Francis Nii Yartey, Peter Badejo, 'Ghanaian Dance'
Gabriel Villela, Nhla Nhla Maake, 'The Violence of Belief'
Georgina Boyes, Roy Judge, 'Folklore/Fakelore'
Geremie Barmé, Liang Bolong, 'Chinas'
Graeae Theatre, Beijing Opera, Artsreach, 'Training and Disability'
Graeme Miller, Sadie Plant, 'Walking: Pedestrian Politics'
Helena Reckitt, Lynne Cooke, 'Talking: Art-iculation'
Mac Wellman, Ron Vawter, 'American Independents'
Maeliosa Stafford, Vincent Woods, 'Border Fictions'
Mark Borkowski, Rosalind Fry, 'Hyperbole: Performance PR'
Michel Reilhac, Mik Flood, 'Decentred Arts Centres'
Norman Frisch, Anne Hamburger, 'Politics of Location'
Oliver Bennett, Andrea Phillips, 'Site Specifics'
Platform / Guillermo Gómez -Pena, 'Homeland'
Rose English, Richard Wilson, 'Beginning Work'
Rustom Bharucha, Neelam Chowdry, 'Inter/Intra Culture'
Stephen Mellor, Mary Scott, 'Bad Language'
Steven Connor, Joanna Scanlan, 'Inter-disciplinary'

LIFT Conversations: Peter Adegboyega Badejo and Phyllida Lloyd, (UK, Nigeria) 'What is African performance and what makes an African performer in Britain today?' The National Theatre; The Wooster Group and Alan Read, The National Theatre

LIFT Lectures at The National Theatre: Gayatri Spivak; Guillermo Gómez-Pena 'The New World Border'; Rustom Bharucha.
Date1993
Extent13 boxes
LevelSubFONDS
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