LIFT 1999

LIFT 1999 presented 40+ companies from Syria, the UK, Germany, Israel, India, South Africa, Australia, Venezuela, Italy, France, South Africa, Ireland, Australia.

People

Deborah Warner

The Tower Project(co-commissioned with the Perth Festival, Australia) at Euston Tower

UK

Forced Entertainment

Bloody Mess Instruction for Forgetting Marathon Lexicon The Voices at Riverside Studios

UK

Allegra McEvedy

The Good Cook Café Chef (The Festival Club) at HMS President

UK

Maurice O’Connell

The Stowaway (The Festival Club) at HMS President

Ireland

Laia Gasch (curator), Amel Tafsout, Amy Lamé, DJ Ritu and the Asian Equation, Duckie, Frank Chickens, Marisa Carnesky, Max Reinhart, People Show, Rita Ray, Stayfree, Ursula Martinez, Wendy Houston, Zenzile, and others

Club programme (The Festival Club) at HMS President

Professor Lisa Jardine, Wesley Enoch (Chairs)

Daily Dialogues at HMS President

UK, Australia

William Kentridge and Handspring Puppet Company

Ubu & the Truth Commission at Tricycle Theatre

South Africa

Theatre Nanterre-Amandiers

Le Jeu de I'Amour et du Hasard at Barbican Centre

France

Opera Transatlantica

Variations on a Concierto Barroco at Three Mills Island Studios

Venezuela

al-Rasif Theatre

Ismaël Hamlet Memory of Ashes at ICA

Syria

Ensemble Modern

Schwarz auf Weiss (Black on White) at Barbican Centre

Germany

Itim Theatre Ensemble

Va Yomer. Va Yelech (And He Spoke. And He Walked) at Three Mills Island Studios

Israel

Maya Krishna Rao, Gavin O’Shea, Abhilash Pillai, Bea Haut 

Departures at Union Chapel

India, UK

Mehlo Players with the Khulumani Support Group 

The Story I'm About to Tell at Tricycle Theatre

South Africa

Neil Thomas, Andrew Morrish, David Wells, Nick Papas and Richard Jeziorny

Urban Dream Capsule at Arding & Hobbs, Clapham Junction

Australia

In 1999 LIFT presented a trilogy of productions, which in their very different ways dealt with the ‘toxins of apartheid’. And the Teachers Forum began in 1999.

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