This week sees a choice bunch of presentations and performances.
This week sees a choice bunch of presentations and performances. London’s favourite quirky boutique Machine-A presents its pick of A/W10’s best young designer talent, Miuccia Prada puts on her set and costume design hat to lend a hand to the Met Opera’s latest performance of Verdi’s Attila in New York and Shakespeare is revolutionised as the Southwark Playhouse puts on a performance of Henry V as a life size board game.
LFW A/W10 Presentation at Machine-A, London – Monday, February 22
Soho boutique Machine-A opens its doors to present the Autumn/Winter collections of three of their favourite young designers. Fast rising creatives Asgar Juel Larsson, Gabriella Maria Gonzalez and Gemma Slack present their new works and Machine-A has commissioned a fashion film to go with the designers’ collections, which will be screened on the night.
Miuccia Prada and Herzog & de Meuron for Verdi’s Attila at the Met, New York – From Tuesday, February 23
Miuccia Prada & Herzog de Meuron have their Metropolitan Opera debut from this Tuesday. In a staging of Verdi’s Attila, Prada and De Meuron are acting as set and costume designers with Maestro Riccardo as conductor and Pierre Audi as Director. Prada’s involvement in the arts is well documented with Fondazione Prada and her involvement in this opera is sure to prove a great success.
Henry V at Southwark Playhouse, London – From Friday, February 26
Shakespeare’s play Henry V is given a shake-up at the innovative Southwark Playhouse. The treatise on war and leadership is transferred to an oversized board game in which the audience are called to decide the fate of Henry in battle. Shakespearean plays are often epic in both subject matter and performance time, yet this interpretation scales down the production to a more palletable 90 minutes, under the direction of the award winning Emily Lim.
Live Performance of Beautiful Freaks at RCA, London – From Wednesday, February 24
RCA’s Student Union is hosting an exhibition, symposium and series of performances around the constructions of gender, sex, embodiment and the real. The events are a part of the RCA’s programme DiverseRCA which looks at human rights in relation to art, examining how art can further our understanding of these issues. Taking in photography, video work, sculpture and performance it is a varied and full bill lasting a week at the RCA.
Brucennial 2010, New York – Thursday February 25
Five men make up the Bruce High Quality Foundation and have rapidly become known in the art world as renegades, staging interventions and shaking up the scene. They are now hosting their parody version of the Whitney Biennial in SoHo, New York. The Brucennial is labelled Miseducation bringing together myriad artists from across the world with performances on Thursday and a literary supplement launching online.
Sophie Jackson is on the editorial team for AnOther, AnOther Man and works in Marketing & Events for Dazed Group
