Spill Festival Explained

SPILL Festival of Performance is an artist-led biennale of experimental theatre and live art in the UK which began in 2007 and takes place in a variety of venues in London and Ipswich, England. The festival is produced by Pacitti Company and the Artistic Director is Robert Pacitti.^[1]

Launched in 2007, the SPILL Festival presents new and experimental theatre and performance work from new and established work from UK and international artists.^[2]

In addition to the biennale Festival SPILL National Platform and Showcase takes place every two years in Ipswich and presents artists in the early stages of their career working in the fields of live art, performance and experimental theatre, selected through an open submission process. ^[3]

The festival has been held in various venues and spaces in London and Ipswich, including, The Barbican, Southbank Centre, The National Theatre Studio, Soho Theatre, Shunt Vaults, Shoreditch Town Hall, Greenwich Dance, Laban, Soho Square, and Toynbee Studios.

Artists

Spill Festival 2007

Productions have included:^[4]

• Covet Me, Care for Me, Sheila Ghelani
• Trans: Acts, Julia Bardsley
• Collected Works, Eve Dent
• Ringside, Mem Morrison
• Sacred, The Rite of Spring, Raimund Hoghe
• Three Duets, Pacitti Company

At SPILL Festival 2009 there were approximately 100 live performances by artists from Australia, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the U.S. and from across the UK.

Spill Festival 2009

• Paradiso by Romeo Castellucci, Italy
• Inferno by Romeo Castellucci, Italy
• Dinner With America, Rajni Shah, UK
• That Night follows Day, Victoria & Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment), Belgium/UK
• A Forest, Pacitti Company, UK
• Purgatorio, By Romeo Castellucci, Italy
• Saving the World, Gob Squad, Germany/UK
• Visions of Excess, Ron Athey & Lee Adams, USA/UK
• A True Story About Two People, Julie Tolentino, USA
• Listen, My Secret Fetish, Richard Haynes, Australia
• Aftermaths: A Tear in the Meat of Vision, Julia Bardsley, UK
• The Modes of Al-Ikseer, Harminder Singh Judge, UK
• Tears of Eros, Carla Esperanza Tommasini, Italy/UK
• The Porcelain Project, Grace Ellen Barkey and Needcompany, Belgium
• Look mummy, I’m dancing, Vanessa, Belgium
• Kim Noble Will Die, Kim Noble, UK
• Orgy of Tolerance, Jan Fabre, Belgium
• Prototypes, Robin Deacon, UK
• Void Story, Forced Entertainment, UK
• Intermission, Pacitti Company, UK
• I Feel Love!, George Chakravarthi, UK

Spill Festival 2011^[5]

• Glorious, Rajni Shah
• Do What Thou Wilt, Harminder Judge
• I Guess If The Stage Exploded, Sylvia Rimat
• In Eldersfield Chapter 1, Kings of England
• Body House Version 1, Shabnam Shabazi (UK)
• Unto Us A Child is Born, Rachel Mars
• Foley, Jo Bannon
• A Sense of the World, Darren White

SPILL Salons

Spill Salons are a public space which bring groups of people together along with a ‘Thinker-in-Residence’ to look at some of the over-riding themes within the Festival. The public salons are where experts from a range of different territories discuss relevant issues affecting performance.

External links

• SPILL Festival 2007
• SPILL Festival 2009
• SPILL Overspill
• Guardian - Article by Lyn Gardner on SPILL 2009

Notes and References

1. Web site: British Council.
2. Web site: Spill festival brings experimental theatre into the mainstream. Lyn. Gardner. March 31, 2009. www.theguardian.com.
3. Web site: SPILL National Platform. SPILL Festival.
4. Web site: SPILL Archive. SPILL Festival. en-US. 2020-03-26.
5. Web site: SPILL Archive. SPILL Festival. en-US. 2020-03-26.