Live Art UK partners
The Arches
Housed within seven Grade A-listed Victorian railway arches in Glasgow city centre, the Arches is both an arts receiving and production house with an international reputation as an exciting hub of ground-breaking creativity.
www.thearches.co.uk
Arnolfini
Based in Bristol, Arnolfini is one of the UK's major contemporary arts spaces combining galleries, live, dance, film, literature and education programmes, and presenting the bi-annual festival Inbetween Time.
www.arnolfini.org.uk
Artsadmin
Based in London, Artsadmin’s Advisory Service provides a unique national resource, supporting artists across the spectrum of contemporary performance practice.
www.artsadmin.co.uk
BAC
Occupying an old town hall in the heart of Battersea, BAC is renowned for making some of the most cutting-edge new theatre in the UK. It’s mission is to invent the future of theatre, integrating artist development with a programme of theatre, participation and events, in a place that enables complicity, brokers new connections between communities, and where risk and adventure are celebrated.
www.bac.org.uk
The Basement
Located in the heart of Brighton, The Basement is the South East's leading purveyor of innovative and experimental performance. Presenting a programme of leading national and international artists alongside the Brighton's most exciting experimental performers, The Basement is a vibrant hub for all things subversive and idiosyncratic. The Basement has a structured programme of support for a community of Supported and Associated Artists who develop and present new work in the venue.
www.thebasement.uk.com
Bluecoat
Based in Liverpool, Bluecoat presents a year round programme focusing on visual and performing arts and artists working in interdisciplinary terrain, and organises the Liverpool Live programme for the Liverpool Biennial.
www.thebluecoat.org.uk
Chapter Arts Centre
Based in Cardiff, Chapter is Wales’ flagship centre for the contemporary arts with an all year round programme of performance, cinema and visual arts from Wales and internationally.
www.chapter.org
Chelsea Theatre
Chelsea Theatre, London's theatre for Live Art, is dedicated to commissioning, producing and presenting the freshest and most innovative artists, both nationally and internationally. We are dedicated to fostering new voices, with specific attention to Live Art and with a dedicated community programme of complementary workshops, activities and events.
www.chelseatheatre.org.uk
Colchester Arts Centre
Based in Essex, Colchester Arts Centre is housed in a converted church and presents a year round programme of performing arts, specialising in Live Art.
www.colchesterartscentre.com
Fierce! Festival
Based in Birmingham, Fierce! produces an annual international festival of Live Art in venues across the West Midlands and year round education and professional development programmes.
www.fiercetv.co.uk
Forest Fringe
Based in London, Forest Fringe is a growing community of artists working together to explore new ways of supporting and presenting unconventional performance work at the Edinburgh Festival and beyond.
www.forestfringe.co.uk
greenroom
Based in Manchester, greenroom is one of the UK's leading centres for contemporary performance, nurturing and presenting emerging creative talent in visual performance, Live Art, contemporary dance, urban verse and children's theatre.
www.greenroomarts.org
Home live art
Home live art, based in London, is a leading creative production company in the UK: specializing in innovative live events with contemporary artists and performers, which explore diverse contexts and spaces, create new forms of cultural experience and emphasize interactivity, entertainment and participation.
www.homeliveart.com
Inbetween Time Productions
The Inbetween Time festival brings together interdisciplinary performance from the sometimes polar perspectives of contemporary theatre and the visual arts, to explore the fertile territory between forms and audiences. IBT explodes out of the art institution to revel in new curatorial models, technologies and critical discourse around an impressive programme of live, digital, architectural and sculptural works.
www.inbetweentime.co.uk
LIFT, London International Festival of Theatre
Established in 1981, LIFT, London International Festival of Theatre, has risen to become one of the most important events in the British arts scene, with an influence that reaches far beyond London. Working with artists from across the world to find new ways of seeing the city, LIFT's rich and varied programming has presented extraordinary events in both conventional theatres and in more unusual spaces such as disused power stations, churches and canal basins.
www.liftfest.org.uk
Live Art Development Agency
Based in London, the Live Art Development Agency offers resources, schemes and initiatives for the support of the Live Art sector.
www.thisisLiveArt.co.uk
New Work Network
Based in London, New Work Network is a national, artist-led support organisation bringing together people working in Live Art, contemporary performance and interdisciplinary practice.
www.newworknetwork.org.uk
Nuffield Theatre
Based in Lancaster, the Nuffield Theatre is a key UK venue for the research, development and presentation of contemporary theatre, performance, live art and dance.
www.nuffieldtheatre.com
Theatre Bristol
Theatre Bristol's ambition is to make Bristol the nexus for theatre makers and audiences of new work. We do this by working in partnership locally, nationally and internationally to make theatre in Bristol better, fitter, and healthier.
www.theatrebristol.net
Wunderbar
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Wunderbar is a new festival of contemporary performances, visual art, and extraordinary happenings for the North East that places the audience at the heart of the experience. The first Wunderbar Festival took place in November 2009 and the festival plans to be biennial.
www.wunderbarfestival.co.uk
Live Art UK members, 2003-2010: Arnolfini, Artsadmin, the Bluecoat, Chapter Arts Centre, Colchester Arts Centre, Fierce, greenroom, Live Art Development Agency and New Work Network.