| AdminHistory | LIFT '97 took place from 3 - 29 June and the programme consisted of:
Alicia Rios (Spain) 'La feria de los cinco sentidos (the fair of the five senses)' Battersea Arts Centre 11 '14 June
Al-Kasaba Theatre (Palestine) 'Ramzy Abul Majd' Royal Court Theatre Upstairs 23 '25 June
Cirque Ici (France) 'Cirque Ici' Clapham Common 16 '17 June
De La Guarda (Argentina) 'Periodo Villa Villa' Three Mills Island Studios 18 '22 June and 26 '29 June
Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (Germany) 'Stunde Null' Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre 12 '15 June
Edward Lam, Edward Yang, Li Liuyi, Stanley Kwan, Danny Yung, Hugh Lee, Lin Zhaohua (Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei) 'Journey To The East' Institute of Contemporary Arts 3 '8 June
El-Warsha (Egypt) 'Tides of Night' Royal Court Theatre at Ambassadors 26 '28 June
Gesher Theatre (Israel) 'K'Far (The Village)' Lyric Theatre Hammersmith 3 '7 June
Groupe F (France) 'Un peu plus de lumière (A little more light)' Battersea Park 7 June
Juliana Francis (USA) 'Go Go Go' Institute of Contemporary Arts 19 '22 June
Maya Krishna Rao (India) 'Khol Do (The Return)' Battersea Arts Centre 10 '15 June
Project Phakama (South Africa, UK) 'Ka Mor Walo Ka Searleng (With a Suitcase in My Hand)' Seshego, South Africa
Project Phakama, Lewisham Youth Theatre, Sibikwa Community Theatre Project (South Africa, UK) 'Izimbadada (If I Were in Your Shoes)' The Albany Theatre
Saburo Teshigawara / Karas (Japan) 'I Was Real 'Documents' Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre 19 '20 June
Step (Japan, UK) 'Invisible Room' Institute of Contemporary Arts 27 '29 June
Taller de Investigación del Imagen Teatral (Colombia) 'Oráculos' Former Coach Station, Kings Cross 3 '8 June and 10 '15 June
TEA - Those Environmental Artists (UK) 'Now & Again' Meard Street, W1 26 '28 June
Utshob Company (India, Bangladesh, UK) 'Utshob' Trinity Buoy Wharf,21 '22 June
West Yorkshire Playhouse (Nigeria, UK) 'Things Fall Apart' Royal Court Theatre Upstairs 12 '14 June and 16 '21 June
Australia Season:
Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts (Australia) 'The 7 Stages of Grieving' Battersea Arts Centre 5 '8 June and 10 '15 June
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (Australia) 'The Geography of Haunted Places' Royal Court Theatre Upstairs 3 '7 June
William Yang, (Australia) 'The North' Battersea Arts Centre 17 '22 June
Realtime, Australia, UK, Realtime: Four Special Issues in Response to LIFT '97
Daily Dialogues were held at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs and consisted of:
Hal Foster with LIFT artists 'Real: Critical First Principles'
Chinese artists from Journey to the East, 'Handover: Returning to China'
Joshua Sobol, 'Grace: Against Cynicism'
Australian artists with Robyn Archer, 'Distant: Discovering the Other'
Enrique Vargas, 'Trust: The Intelligence of Feeling'
Utshob artists and Maya Krishna Rao, 'Cosmo: Celebration in the Secular'
Deborah Mailman and Wesley Enoch, 'Belief: The Power of Ritual'
Alicia Rios and Theodore Zeldin, 'Relish: Sense and Sensibility'
Christoph Marthaler and Tony Banks, 'Makeover: The Politics of Speech'
Biyi Bandele, 'Adaptation: The Art of Transformation'
Johann Le Guillerm and Charles Handy, 'Alone: The Magic of Intimacy'
De La Guarda, 'Euphoria: The Happiness of Vertigo'
Juliana Francis, 'Abuse: Resistance by Generosity'
Saburo Teshigawara, 'Exotic: Close to Home'
Project Phakama participants, 'Reconciled: To Difficulty'
Artists from Al-Kasaba Theatre and Gabriel Gbadamosi, 'Preoccupied: Territories'
Realtime, 'Critical: Reflections'
Hassan el-Geretly, 'Last: Words'
LIFT Performance Lecture: Ewan Forster and Christopher Heighes, 'Preliminary Hearing - an inquiry into the loss of the Mary Ward House Story', The Mary Ward House 20 June
LIFT Seminars: Artists from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia, 'The Role of the Artist in the Arab World' Royal Court Upstairs 28 June; British based Chinese artists and artists involved in Journey to the East, 'The Search for a New Chinese Theatre' ICA 7 June
The third LIFT Business Arts Forum also took place |