Invisible Cities Manchester International Festival

Performed in a cavernous former railway depot Invisible Cities. Iron rusting water seeping through fissures.

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Invisible Cities A phantasmagorical production of Italo Calvinos fantastical travelogue is an inspired international festival project.

Invisible cities manchester international festival. Invisible Cities is a mesh of contemporary dance projections spectacular staging and a thumping score set within the imposing Mayfield building. Leo Warner Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Lolita Chakrabarti 59 Productions and Rambert bring to life. Aniqah Choudhri reviews a multimedia dance-theatre extravaganza based on.

Premiering to a sell-out audience in July 2019 at the Manchester International Festival the duo was commissioned by Warners 59 Productions to score the music for the 90-minute multimedia theatrical stage show adapted from Italo Calvinos 1972 novel Invisible Cities. Created for Mayfield Manchesters iconic former railway depot Invisible Cities distils both the essence of MIF and the ambition that will define The Factory the Festivals future home. Once abandoned for over fifty years Mayfield depot represents the lingering vestiges of Manchesters renowned industrial past now crumbling.

By Louis Manchester Mayfield Railway Depot was a fitting space for this hugely ambitious project which took two and a half years to go from inception to realisation. I only went to this event to get inside Mayfield Station the disused goods depot just across Fairfield Street from Piccadilly Station. See the latest behind the scenes video from Invisible Cities.

At the Manchester International Festival Bigger Isnt Better Tree and Invisible Cities two blockbuster works lack the impact of the festivals more intimate experiences. The site has been valued by the Urbex community for years considered ideal for novice urban explorers but Im such a coward Id much rather pay to go in legally. Billed as one to watch I headed down to the brand-new Mayfield to check out this creative adaptation of Italo Calvinos Invisible Cities.

Invisible Cities outdazzles The Fountainhead Tree and The Nico Project. Invisible Cities Manchester International Festival review. Invisible Cities at Manchester International Festival 2019.

As cities go Manchester is of course a feast for the eyes and as visually stimulating as they come so say. The spectacular Invisible Cities transforms Mayfield a vast derelict railway depot. Invisible Cities unpicks ideas of identity imagination and empire and is at Manchester international festival this month Invisible Cities runs until 14 July at Mayfield Manchester Photos by.

World Premiere A Pre-Factory Event Leo Warner Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Lolita Chakrabarti 59 Productions and Rambert bring to life as series. Invisible Cities Utopolis Tuesday and Atmospheric Memory reviewed It s been just over a week since Manchester International Festival launched in. This Manchester International Festival world premiere is a mesmerising production an intercontinental adventure for the Game of Thrones generation.

Brunel meets Dante in this spellbinding spectacle. Invisible Cities at Mayfield at Mayfield Manchester 414 July 2019 from 10 - Book now Inspired by Italo Calvinos 1972 novel of the same name Invisible Cities is a world premiere performance created for Manchesters vast and historic Mayfield site. Invisible Cities at Manchester International Festival 2-14 July Invisible cities right before your eyes.

And yet it was the word that rattled persistently round my head as I watched. T he dance strand of the Manchester international festival kicked off with a blockbuster. Leo Warner Director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Co-Director Choreographer Lolita Chakrabarti Adaptor.

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