25 November 2011 - 26 November 2011

Compass Late

Regional Artists' Platform

Friday 25 November 9pm - 12am Leeds Gallery (Munro House) York Street, LS9 8AGCompass Late was a work in progress platform, on which artists and companies in Yorkshire and the Humber making live art and contemporary performance, showed their work informally for a regional and national audience of artists and other arts professionals.Six artists and companies presented an array…

14 May 2011 - 14 May 2011

Live Art Practice Workshop 3

Workshop 3 Saturday 14 May 2011 in associate with Point Blank Theatre and the Riverside, SheffieldThe third and final event in Compass' 6 month programme of 3 practical live art workshops taking place across the region. Led by experienced solo cross-disciplinary artist Sarah Spanton.Interested in developing your own personal performance practice? Want to explore a range of performance approaches and techniques? Keen to…

14 May 2011 - 14 May 2011

Live Art Practice Workshop 3

Workshop 3 Saturday 14 May 2011 in associate with Point Blank Theatre and the Riverside, SheffieldThe third and final event in Compass' 6 month programme of 3 practical live art workshops taking place across the region. Led by experienced solo cross-disciplinary artist Sarah Spanton.Interested in developing your own personal performance practice? Want to explore a range of performance approaches and techniques? Keen to…

6 May 2011 - 6 May 2011

Event 5: Ecstatic

An evening celebration of all things human through the medium of the body, identity and play

In association with Compass Live Art, Bloc Projects presented Ecstatic, an evening's exploration of all things human through the medium of the body, identity and play. The event featured live artists David Birchall, Robin Close, Alice Malseed, David McNab, Rebekka Platt and Nicola Singh.Robin Close lives and works in Sheffield, and performed a new work that combines his…

23 April 2011 - 23 April 2011

Event 4: Ad:Lib 7

A live art event combining dance, movement, speech, noise and moving pictures.

Saturday 23 April 3.30-6.30pm RED Gallery of Contemporary Art, 19 Osborne Street, Hull HU1 2NLIn association with Compass, RED Gallery of Contemporary Art presented Ad:Lib 7, RED's 7th live art event combining dance, movement, speech, noise and moving pictures. Ad:Lib 7 featured artists Jo Ashbridge, Jill Dowse, Graeme Rose, Tom Watkins and Yol.Jo Ashbridge is a dance…

12 March 2011 - 12 March 2011

Event 3: O U I #3

Saturday 12 March 2011 Space 109 Walmgate, York 19:30 - 22:00 (Performances start at 20:00)In March 2011, Compass and O U I Performance presented O U I #3, an evening of contemporary performance. Founded by Victoria Gray and Nathan Walker in February 2010, O U I Performance curate an ongoing series of performance events in the city of York, presenting new work by emerging and established artists in…

27 February 2011 - 27 February 2011

Live Art Workshop 2

Workshop 2 Sunday 27 February 10 – 5pm in association with York St John University, Faculty of Arts The second event in Compass' 6 month programme of 3 practical live art workshops taking place across the region. Led by experienced solo cross-disciplinary artist Sarah Spanton.Interested in developing your own personal performance practice? Want to explore a range of performance approaches and techniques? Keen…

15 January 2011 - 16 January 2011

Event 2: Art’s Birthday

In January, Art will be 1,000,048 years old. Compass will be joining a range of worldwide celebrations with a weekend of spontaneous playSaturday 15 & Sunday 16 JanuaryParticipating artists include Ganghut (Dundee, Scotland) and Our Ideas Are Everywhere (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Roddy Hunter (York); Sarah Spanton (Leeds); Benedict Phillips (Leeds) and Contents May Vary (Manchester).The second…

25 November 2010 - 27 November 2010

Compass Symposium

A weekend series of engaging discursive workshops on live art in the public realm and live art as socially engaged practice.

A weekend series of engaging discursive workshops on live art in the public realm and live art as socially engaged practice. This event is aimed at practitioners, programmers, curators, producers, academics and post graduate students. The Symposium will bring together national and international artists and programmers to actively participate in a series of facilitated provocations. The Symposium coincides with and…

25 November 2010 - 25 November 2010

Event 1

The first in our series of six events taking place across the region, which launched the Compass project

Helen Pritchard: Spirit Rally 3: The event is youSPIRIT RALLY 3 was a distributed performance event, a cheerleading rehearsal, a celebration of conversation and a temporary community of practice. Based upon emerging models of crowd-sourcing, the event aimed to explore how we might share a sonic language in order to facilitate individual thinking to a collective level.Helen invited those attending…