Warm thanks from the AltPitch Festival to all artists who submitted their work and to all the audience who rated these works between 1-31 March.
Three winning shows will receive £2500 each for their next production from the AltPitch Festival. The Curator’s Choice will receive £1300 for their next production.
These commissions will be displayed on our website and promoted by the festival between July and December 2022.
Please see the commissioned artists below.
By Natalia PEGARKOVA-BARENBOIM
Complete Show
On an ordinary Sunday morning, Phillip and Sophie discover an extraordinary place: the Pierre Boulez Saal (In Berlin). Accompanied by their loving grandparents, they embark on an exciting journey of great music, a funny tiger staircase and an impressive concert hall panorama!
By CLIFF CRAWFORD
Complete Show
We take up digital cameras, collect our objects and ephemera around us, aim their barrels and shoot ourselves. We curate this munition, and project it into the world using social media. “To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.” Susan Sontag, On Photography. Penguin Books 1979
By THE FETCH THEATRE
Complete Show
Recently unemployed Punch & Judy performer, Punched, descends into a life of drugs, alcohol and abuse, seeking redemption, he finds instead that he is forced into a life of repetitive destructive actions.
By ESME FISHER
Complete Show
Cranks, Cogs and Cams: an exploration of Edward Lear’s The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World was created for #ATownExploresABook2021 in collaboration with composer Frank Moon.
By NIKKI HAFTER
Complete Show
Location Unknown is a digital, interactive installation that was conceived in April 2020, when billions of people were (re)negotiating ways to experience collectively, whilst spatially and even temporally distanced by the first lockdowns of the coronavirus pandemic.
By CLAIR/OBSCUR
R&D
The WW2 Special Operations Executive is tasked with espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance. As a wireless operator, life expectancy is just 6 weeks. “Madeleine” is the codename for one such agent – Noor Inayat Khan.
By FIERI CONSORT
R&D
Together with award-winning artist Eleanor Meredith, Fieri present this animated film following the courtship between two lovers, Amarilli and Mirtillo. This epic tale of lovers tossed by fate and fortune was once famous throughout Europe, inspiring hundreds of composers like Luca Marenzio.
By LUCY BRENNAN SHIEL
Complete Show
Densely woven visuals with words from Ulysses – a short film by Lucy Brennan Shiel to celebrate the centenary of Ulysses by James Joyce in 2022. It was inspired by the generosity of Harriet Shaw Weaver who was convinced of the genius of James Joyce and was instrumental in funding his writing and early publications to support him and his family.
By MUSICA SECRETA
R&D
Mother, Sister, Daughter celebrates women’s spiritual relationships and the stories they tell, with music honouring the Blessed Virgin Mary and communities of sisters in early modern Europe, and a new work by Joanna Marsh on a poem by Norfolk poet, Esther Morgan.
By CHRIS DALY
R&D
The Banality of the Image; – what you see is what you see. It’s a Möbius World is an ongoing project involving photography and dance. Currently large scale printed or web formatted photographs are available. Future plans aim towards transferring the concepts and themes to a dance performance and short film.
