What’s ACCA-ning?
All you need to know about autumn at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts If you have not seen the ACCA’s new autumn programme, you may be overwhelmed by…
Review: Suzanne Ciani & Martin Messier at the ACCA
At the outset, Mr Messier’s FIELD at once invoked The Matrix and Daedalus’ Boiler Room set. The basic concept of this mixed media performance relies on transducer microphones picking up…
An evening with Candoco Dance Company – review
Last week at the Attenborough Centre, the phenomenally unique and refreshing dance company Candoco brought to the stage a double bill of performances exploring identity, community and communication. What strikes…
Talking disability, identity and inclusion through dance – Candoco preview
Candoco are a company of disabled and non-disabled dancers who, for the past 25 years, have challenged ideas about what dance can be and who gets to be a part…
Interview with Chris Watson: Take a trip to No Man’s Land this spring
Sound recordist, Chris Watson, spoke to The Badger about his new installation piece featured in the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts until 13 April 2018. From an electronic music…
SMuTS presents ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ review
Excitement and anticipation were running high Wednesday evening at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) for the opening night of Sussex Musical Theatre Society’s (SMuTS’s) Spring production: Jekyll…
Unexploded Ordnances – Curing historical amnesia and saving the world
In her 1980 paper ‘Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference’, feminist writer Audre Lorde calls the myth of the “generation gap” one of the primary tools of repressive…
SMuTS presents Jekyll & Hyde
Sussex Musical Theatre Society (SMuTS) are presenting their Spring show this week premiering on Wednesday 21 March. The production is a musical theatre adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 gothic…
Representing the People: Review
Recognising the centenary of the Representation of the People’s Act and International Women’s Day, The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts invited four alumnae of Sussex University to discuss the…
The Amazing Adventures of Pinocchio Review
This Christmas season, the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts offers a fun-filled pantomime in the form of unusual fairy-tale choice, Pinocchio. Director James Weisz marries classic panto singing, dancing…
The Amazing Adventures of Pinocchio Preview
This holiday season, the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts is presenting a pantomime adaption of beloved fairy tale Pinocchio. Pinocchio is the story of a puppet carved by the…
Notorious Review
Note: explicit performance discussed “Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another…. Every one of her actions – whatever…
Notorious Preview
‘Challenging’ is certainly one way to describe Lauren Barri Holstein’s work. As a lecturer and PhD student at Queen Mary University London in 2015, she screened a clip from her…
Punk, poetry and performance: Thinking Queer Review
How do you imagine the contemplations of the Bloomsbury Group in a modern cultural climate? The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) achieved exactly that, showcasing four outstanding and…
Thinking Queer: Bloomsbury Group Preview
The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) will be hosting a discussion centring around the influential intellectuals of the Bloomsbury Group on Friday 10 November. In partnership with the…
Digital Tattoo Review
Katie Dale-Everett’s Digital Tattoo came to the Attenborough Centre last Tuesday, blending dance, projection and interactive theatre to critique our increasingly dependent relationship with social media. The first, and stronger,…
“Intimate and superbly important” – Digital Tattoo Preview
This week the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) hosts Digital Tattoo, a multi-media dance piece created by KDE Dance. Handily located beside the library on Sussex campus, the…