visions festival of visual performance


	visions 2004 – dates announced
	The next visions festival of visual performance will take place in Brighton from Thursday 21 – Saturday 30 October 2004. Promoted by the University of Brighton, visions will present ten days of visually amazing performances on stages, in studios, streets and other unusual spaces around Brighton. "At present we are looking at companies from Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, Denmark and Belgium as well as Britain" said Linda Lewis, Director of visions. "We are especially interested in presenting shows which make innovative use of sound and music as an intergral element of the performance, although I am open to seeing a wide range of new work." visions is also seeking work by British companies working creatively with contemporary visual performance for the Launch-Pad event. visions Launch-Pad provides a platform for companies to show new work in a festival fringe venue in central Brighton. Companies / artists interested in showing work at visions Launch-Pad should send visuals, details and any forthcoming performance dates to: Linda Lewis, Director: visions Theatre & Gallery Office, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY, UK visions.fest@brighton.ac.uk tel: 01273 643194 visions 2004 is promoted by the University of Brighton and funded by Arts Council England, South East.
	A new life for visions
	2002 marked a change for visions as we started to make the journey from a puppetry festival to a festival of visual performance. We commissioned four new pieces of work, which reflected our transition, combining as they did, elements of puppetry, dance, and installation. visions, which is promoted by the University of Brighton, also visited new places such as the Royal Pavilion, Fabrica (a gallery in a disused church) and the city streets as well as the Gardner Arts Centre, Komedia and The Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome. Evaluation of visions 2002 shows that we welcomed to Brighton over 300 promoters and artists from the UK and abroad. Box office targets were exceeded and over nine thousand people attended visions events. We are pleased to hear that UK premieres we presented have since received further bookings. "Since its inception in 1994, visions has championed contemporary puppetry and animated theatre which was then seen by some as a "poor relation". Now mainstream festivals and theatres feature exciting puppetry in their programmes, we feel it is time for visions to move on" explains Linda Lewis, Artistic and Executive Director "With our key supporters, the University of Brighton and Arts Council England, South East and other partners, visions is able to re-focus the festival as a flagship for a fresh approach to visual performance. Our mission for the next few years is to be recognised by arts practitioners as the UK organisation with the expertise, imagination and capacity to unveil astonishing and inspirational new ideas and high standards of presentation in the field of visual theatre." visions is currently seeking creative artists and directors from around the world who can join us in discovering new dimensions in visual performance. We are also interested in hearing about new and exciting work happening in your area. If you would like to know more about becoming one of our ‘scouts’ please contact us on visions.fest@bton.ac.uk visions is a biennial festival and the provisional dates for the next visions are 21 – 31 October 2004.


	View visions Archive Diary of Events 2002
	View visions Sallis Benney Theatre Archive of Events 2002
	View visions Archived Exhibitions 2002

	Press Releases:

	Press Release, 9 December 2003, Launch of Performance/Technologies - a User’s Guide

	re:visions Thurday 24th October 2002 a seminar on the creative application of new media in live performance

	Press Release, Brighton Graphic Design Students win pitch to re-brand visions visions, the Brighton based festival of visual performance has commissioned two final year graphic design students from the University of Brighton to re-brand its corporate ID.

	Press Release, visions: Launchpad Saturday 26 October 2002 visions is seeking companies to join the festival’s first Launchpad event. visions Launchpad will provide a platform for companies to show exciting new work in a festival fringe venue in central Brighton.

	Press Release, 'Elevation' by Wireframe (Installation commission)

	Press Release, general visions festival

	Press Release, Puppetry into Dance (Dance and Puppetry commissions)

	Visions poster, 2002 (pdf)
	Visions, the biennial festival of visual performance was Thursday 24 October – Saturday 2 November 2002.
	visions archive, 2001, 2002

	Contact Details for visions: Telephone: 01273 643194 Fax: 01273 643038 email: visions.fest@bton.ac.uk Linda Lewis, Director Colin Matthews, Producer Sarah Heyworth, Marketing Director Elaine Clarke, visions Administrator Clari Little, Administrative Assistant (Finance) Gez Wilson, University of Brighton Administrator Graham Rees, Technician visions, Gallery and Theatre Office, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY

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