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18 July 2017
10,000 Gestures by Boris Charmatz review
10,000 Gestures takes something that seems utterly random and turns it into a truly beautiful dance piece.
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18 July 2017
Ceremony by Phil Collins review
On a sunny Manchester evening, over 200 people gathered into the Bridgewater Hall car park to celebrate the ending of 18 amazing days of the Manchester International Festival 2017.
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17 July 2017
Lost Memories Dot Net review
Lost Memories Dot Net takes us back to the early 2000s to show us how far the internet has come.
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17 July 2017
Interdependence: We Need to Talk About Change "The Chemistry of Creativity"
Hans Ulrich Obrist talks to True Faith curator Matthew Higgs, contributing artist Liam Gillick and Peter Saville, Artistic Director for Joy Division and New Order.
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17 July 2017
Creating Manchester Street Poem with Karl Hyde, Joanne Wilson and Jez Green
Karl Hyde, from Underworld, is the man behind the innovative Manchester Street Poem, and he talks to Joanne Wilson, a volunteer and participant in the project and Jez Green, from homeless charity Mustard Tree.
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17 July 2017
Interdependence: We Need to Talk About Change with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas is the architect behind Manchester's new cultural space, The Factory, set to open in 2020, it will be the permanent home of Manchester International Festival. Koolhaas speaks to MIF's Artistic Advisor, Hans Ulrich Obrist about this exciting new development for the city.
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15 July 2017
True Faith review
Manchester Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition celebrating the arts and culture of Manchester bands Joy Division and New Order.
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12 July 2017
Manchester Street Poem review
Manchester Street Poem is an art installation at UNFEAR on Oldham Street in the Northern Quarter, telling the stories of Manchester's homeless people.
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10 July 2017
Fatherland by Scott Graham, Karl Hyde and Simon Stephens review
The opening scene sets the premise for the entire work. Three middle age Londoners collating stories regarding fatherhood by returning to their hometowns to collect text and use it verbatim: "we are devising a show."
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10 July 2017
Interdependence: We Need to Talk About Technology on Artificial Intelligence
Will Artificial Intelligence take over? Will we have human robots? A panel of experts answers all of our questions.
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10 July 2017
Interdependence: We Need to Talk About Technology with Nina Freeman
Nina Freeman has designed a game all about relationships and the internet; her she talks to Laura Kate Dale about 'Lost Memories Dot Net'.
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10 July 2017
Last and First Men by Jóhann Jóhannsson review
One of the higher profiles on the MIF17 bill, expectations were suitably high for Oscar nominee, Jóhann Jóhannsson's score by the BBC Philharmonic.
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8 July 2017
Available Light review
I was excited to see Available Light at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, as part of the Manchester International Festival (MIF) 2017. On paper this should be great. But was it?
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8 July 2017
What if Women Ruled the World? review
A film experiment? A performative debate? A play? What if Women Ruled the World? is all of these.
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8 July 2017
Returning to Reims dir. Thomas Ostermeier review
A play that attests "maybe Rupert Murdoch isn't evil" wouldn't usually be my cup of tea. But how wrong I was.
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7 July 2017
Sampha supported by PAULi review
Electronic R'n'B dark horse, Sampha, was preceded by his own drummer, PAULi in a packed Albert Hall in the middle of Manchester and the middle of the festival.
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5 July 2017
Hookworms supported by Carla dal Forno review
Carla dal Forno opened for Hookworms in the Pavilion Theatre with her own hypnotic minimalist take on personal songwriting. Only Hookworms themselves kicked things off properly.
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5 July 2017
Talk: Music for a Busy City with Philip Venables, Anna Meredith, Matthew Herbert and Huang Ruo
How privileged we are to have these composers give us their music and enrich our everyday life. This was the opening sentiment of this talk with four of the six composers of site-specific music for the project Music for a Busy City set across the city centre.