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LIFT 2012 (12 June - 15 July)
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12 June - 15 July
Balassi InstituteBarbican
Croydon Council Flanders House
Goethe-Institut LondonLondon 2012 Festival
Romanian Cultural Institute
Atelier OneBreckman & Company
CBS OutdoorDivine Chocolate
Grange HotelsHarbottle & LewisThe Hospital Club
Index on Censorshipmuf architecture/art
Peyton and ByrneTime Out LondonSaatchi & Saatchi
Vintage ClassicsVodafone: World of Di! erence
City Bridge TrustContemporary Myths
Coutts Charitable TrustThe Derek Hill Foundation
The Funding NetworkThe Keir Foundation
The Leche TrustThe Gar" eld Weston Foundation
The Noël Coward FoundationThe Rayne Foundation
The Sackler TrustVital Regeneration
WWF-UKVisiting Arts
Kate & Paul BrundageMyriam Blundell
Lily & Julian HarrissLydia Lee
Gerard Lemos & Paul CraneTheresa Sackler
Jay Verjee
LIFT Board:Bernard Donoghue (Chair)
Pat BrownJo Burns
Manisha FerdinandCraig Hassall
Phillip KeirGeorge Kessler CBE
Karen NapierJohn Newton
David Philip
LIFT 2012 would not have been possible without
LIFT 2012 was a festival of partnerships as well as productions. LIFT worked with hundreds of artists, venues, funders and programmers to deliver a diverse, collaborative and cross-disciplinary festival. Partnerships also increased e$ ciencies, shared resources and broadened audience reach.
Gatz Noël Coward Theatre (Westminster)Elevator Repair Service
The Rest Is Silence Riverside Studios (Hammersmith)dreamthinkspeak
Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker Young Vic (Southwark)Belarus Free Theatre
You Once Said Yes Roundhouse (Camden)Look Left Look Right
White Rabbit, Red Rabbit Gate Theatre (Kensington & Chelsea)Nassim Soleimanpour
66 Minutes in Damascus Shoreditch Town Hall (Hackney)Lucien Bourjeily
The Coming Storm Battersea Arts Centre (Wandsworth)Forced Entertainment
There We Will Be Buried Institute of Contemporary Arts (Westminster)Yair Oelbaum
Un" nished Dream Fair" eld Halls/Q Park, Surrey Street (Croydon)Hamid Pourazari
Motor Show Greenwich Peninsula (Greenwich)Requardt & Rosenberg
The Dark Side of Love RoundhouseRenato Rocha
Romeo & Juliet in Baghdad Riverside StudiosIraqi Theatre Company
Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Stratford Circus (Newham)Back to Back Theatre
Before Your Very Eyes Unicorn Theatre (Southwark)Gob Squad/CAMPO
100% London Hackney Empire (Hackney)Rimini Protokoll
Macbeth: Leila and Ben - Riverside StudiosA Bloody HistoryArtistes/Producteurs/Associés
Where The Heart Is The Women’s Library (Tower Hamlets)Magic Me
20/20 Platform Theatre (Camden)Gianina Carbunariu
One Extraordinary Day London Landmarks STREB: Extreme Action (City of London, Westminster, Lambeth, Southwark)
Rio Artists Occupation Battersea Arts Centre
Talks:Changing the Face of Freedom (Free Word Centre); The Great Gatsby at London Literature Festival (Southbank Centre); Crossing Borders (Platform Theatre); Burning Down the House, Not Waving But Drowning (both ICA)
LIFT are:Artistic Director, Mark BallExecutive Director, Beki BatesonHead of Development, Hannah Cli! ordParticipation Producer, Erica CampayneAssociate Producer, Nick SweetingGeneral Manager, Kate WardDevelopment & Marketing Co-ordinator, Jonathan MayAssistant Producer, Jon DavisMarketing Consultant, Kevin IsaacsProduction Manager, Simon MacCollSTREB Production Team: Sally Cowling, Tom Bailey, Lucy Ryan, Katie MountainFestival PR, Kean LanyonAnd all our placements & volunteers
LIFT | Institute of Contemporary Arts | The Mall | London SW1Y 5AHliftfestival.com | twitter.com/LIFTfestival | [email protected]
Registered Charity No. 286169
At the centre of LIFT are the people who imagine, create and support the festival. We rely on the contributions of our friends and funders to do our work and all donations are very gratefully received.
You can donate online at justgiving.com/LIFT2012, give through your mobile by texting LIFT 81 £your donation to 70070 or send a cheque to our o$ ces at the address below.Thank you to everyone who made our festival happen.
A Celebration
MotorshowPhoto: Warren King
“A LOT OF WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD I KNOW THROUGH THEATRE, AND THROUGH THE STORIES THAT ARE TOLD IN THEATRE, AT A FESTIVAL LIKE LIFT”Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
With London as its stage LIFT has presented the stories of the world to every corner and community of the capital for over 30 years, pioneering new forms of theatre and setting a benchmark for internationalism in the arts. LIFT relaunched its biennial festival in 2010, and this year built on its success to present LIFT 2012, the largest and most ambitious festival in our history.
LIFT 2012 was a ! ve week festival of vital, daring, witty and dizzying theatre that took place right across London: from the heart of the West End, to a car park in Croydon, to the spokes of the London Eye.
Artists from across the globe came together to present work telling the stories of the world today. With 20 international productions from 15 countries LIFT 2012 revealed the mix of cultures within our city, stimulating the minds of London’s culturally curious.
Impact and Pro! leAttracting over 43,000 attendees and selling 25,319 tickets, LIFT cut through the noise of 2012 to become one of the capital’s stand out events of the summer.
LIFT 2012 received exceptional audience feedback and achieved national and international media coverage including front pages for STREB: One Extraordinary Day in The Guardian, The Times and the Financial Times.
Working with Saatchi and Saatchi LIFT is developing its digital capacity and is focusing its branding and communications to reach younger audiences; the early results of our evaluation suggest that 63% of our audience are under 45 years old.
Investment in New WorkSupporting international and UK-based artists to create original and compelling new work that speaks to London’s audiences and communities has enabled LIFT 2012 to present a distinctive, edgy and topical festival. Incorporating a focus on the world’s most fragile geopolitical region – the Middle East – LIFT supported 8 new commissions including:
• 66 Minutes in Damascus: a terrifying journey into the dark heart of the Syrian regime by director and writer Lucien Bourjeily.
• Motor Show: created by David Rosenberg and Frauke Requardt, an outdoor dance theatre spectacular where cars and dancers raced around a deserted wasteland on the Greenwich Peninsula.
• Macbeth: Leila and Ben – A Bloody History: a powerful exploration of the Arab dictator told through the prism of one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains, created by Tunisia’s leading theatre company.
• The Coming Storm: by Britain’s legendary experimental theatre ensemble Forced Entertainment.• The Rest is Silence: a beautifully conceived investigation of Hamlet created by one of the UK’s
leading immersive theatre companies, dreamthinkspeak.
Olympic AmbitionLIFT 2012 presented six productions in partnership with London 2012 Festival and four as part of the World Shakespeare Festival. Contributing to the success of LIFT 2012 were landmark productions that, through their sheer ambition and bravado, had the ability to attract thousands of attendees and generate pages of editorial, reviews and on-line commentary - at a time when the eyes of the world fell on London.
GatzElevator Repair Service’s eight-hour theatrical marathon was LIFT’s ! rst ever presentation in the West End and became the ‘must see’ theatre event of the summer, grossing more than any other West End play in the season in its ! nal two weeks. Receiving critical acclaim Gatz attracted 9,500 people to 23 performances and has helped re-establish LIFT’s pro! le amongst audiences and the media.
Surprises-STREB: One Extraordinary DayCommissioned by the Mayor of London and London 2012 Festival and staged by LIFT, One Extraordinary Day saw seven spectacular dance actions on iconic London landmarks - from Millennium Bridge to the London Eye - created by the legendary New York choreographer Elizabeth Streb. One Extraordinary Day enthralled and dazzled thousands and captured the excitement of London 2012.
The Festival in Numbers:34 days20 productions8 new commissions10 di" erent languages 12 premieres277 volunteers75% sales capacity43,000+ audience members352 participants612 performances14 London boroughs 15,308 youtube viewsPerformers aged 3 - 82 years1,083,162 performed words of Gatz169 international artists24 venues7,050 Twitter followers1,724 hotel rooms50% carbon reduction on ground transport226 press mentions
Certainly the capital is unlikely to ever see anything like Streb again.The Guardian, on One Extraordinary Day
It’s a festival one can only see growing and taking over the city
of London.Younger Theatre
One of the most eagerly anticipated theatre events of the year.The Independent, on The Rest Is Silence (4*)
WHAT THE PRESS HAD TO SAY...
Engagement and ReachLIFT 2012 presented a hugely diverse range of international theatre across London, including the ground-breaking production of Ganesh Versus the Third Reich by Australian disability theatre company Back to Back Theatre. It also enabled Londoners across the capital, including individuals from areas with historically low arts provision, to work alongside inspirational international artists to create new work. Placing the stories and experiences of Londoners at the heart of productions, LIFT’s participatory projects included:
• Unfi nished Dream: LIFT commissioned the Iranian director Hamid Pourazari to work for three months in Croydon, engaging 220 local people in workshops - including refugees, school children, the unemployed, people with a range of disabilities and the retired - to create an ethereal performance aross three # oors of car park in the centre of town.
• 100% London: under the direction of Germany’s Rimini Protokoll, 100 Londoners - recruited over three months to exactly re# ect the demography of the capital - took to the stage of the Hackney Empire to create a living, breathing portrait of London.
• The Dark Side of Love: directed by Brazilian director Renato Rocha with Keziah Serreau and co-produced with the Roundhouse and the RSC, 16 young performers from London and Rio de Janeiro worked for nine months with a professional team, creating an exceptional piece of theatre about young love, inspired by Shakespeare.
We also reached a whole new audience through our invigorated digital strategy. Twitter alone achieved a reach of 154,000 people, our Facebook followers increased by 100% over the festival, and our new website attracted 31,838 unique visits - driven by regularly updated show information and production images, artistic updates, links to articles, reviews and audience comment.
LIFT 2012 provided an international platform for creative discussion and inquiry. Exploring climate change, international collaboration and how artists are responding to the economic crisis, LIFT presented a number of talks and seminars provoking debate and interaction amongst artists and audiences that addressed some of the most urgent issues of our times.
As a festival set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most diverse cities, LIFT 2012 engaged with people from all communities and of all ages and backgrounds, encouraging them to share in our work. Every EHRC recognised ethnicity was represented in our 2012 festival audience; 25% of attendees were under 20; 18% had an income below the national average and 53% attended the festival for the ! rst time.
Future PlansLIFT will present Hofesh Shechter Company’s Political Mother: Derry~Londonderry Uncut as part of the City of Culture 2013. Drawing upon the city’s rich musical culture, the show will feature a 30-strong live band, including emerging musicians from Derry~Londonderry performing alongside 16 dancers of the Hofesh Shechter Company at the Ebrington Parade Ground.
Our London-wide festival will return in 2014 and building upon the achievements of LIFT 2012 will continue to see LIFT at the heart of independent, challenging and inspiring international theatre.
Achieving levels of feeling most West End shows don’t get
close to.The Sunday Times, on Gatz (4*)
This is theatre with true passion and purpose: wild, intense and
thrillingly urgent and alive.The Times, on Minsk 2011 (4*)
There is a lot to thank LIFT for. The Observer
IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY, ORIGINAL EXPERIENCE… IT TOOK ME BACK TO A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEATRE I HAVEN’T HAD IN MANY, MANY YEARS. LIFT IS A
FANTASTIC FESTIVAL, IT ALWAYS IS. IT’S JUST SO RICH, SUCH A TONIC AND SO HUMBLING TO SEE WORK COMING FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.
Juliet Stevenson CBE, performer in White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
LIFT SEEMS TO HAVE A TALENT FOR PICKING GENUINELY INNOVATIVE AND EXCITING THEATRE FROM AROUND THE WORLD -
THE PROGRAMME IS ALWAYS QUITE INCREDIBLE. Audience Member
IT HAS BEEN A JOY FOR ALL OF US AT LONDON 2012 FESTIVAL TO WORK WITH LIFT ON AN AMAZING SERIES OF CO-COMMISSIONS.
THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH BRAVE PARTNERS AND KEEPING YOUR EYE ON THE PRIORITY TO LOVE AND SUPPORT YOUR ARTISTS.Ruth Mackenzie OBE, Director
Macbeth: Leila & Ben - A Bloody History
Photo: Tim Mitchell
Before Your Very Eyes
Photo: Phile Deprez
The Rest Is Silence
Photo: Jim Stephenson
Romeo & Juliet in Baghdad
Photo: Ellie Kurttz
Gatz
Photo: Mark Barton
Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker
Photo: Nikolai Khalezin
The Dark Side of Love
Photo: Tim Mitchell
One Extraordinary Day
Photo: Tim Mitchell
The Times Front Cover, Mon 5 July 2012 The Guardian Front Cover, Mon 5 July 2012
LIFT 2012 BROUGHT TOGETHER HUNDREDS OF INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AND THOUSANDS OF AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO SHARE AND DELIGHT IN STUNNING THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE. THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL HAS BEEN A FANTASTIC SUCCESS AND HAS SEEN LIFT RE-ESTABLISH ITSELF AS A VITAL PART OF LONDON’S ARTISTIC LIFE.Mark Ball, Artistic Director
IT’S GREAT TO BE IN THE MIDST OF A MAJOR EUROPEAN FESTIVAL, IN A CONTEXT WITH SO MANY OTHER ARTISTS
Tim Etchells, Director, Forced Entertainment