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| Breaking new ground Annual Review 2001 – text-only version |
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The Royal National Theatre The Royal National Theatre's 'Blue/Orange', by Joe Penhall, astonished audiences and critics with its intense, evershifting power struggle over issues of race and madness between a patient and two doctors who battle over him. It won three major awards for best new play.
With funding from the National Touring Programme, the Crafts Council toured the Making Buildings exhibition, which featured artworks such as 'nest=0' by Tono Mirai. The exhibition focused on the collaboration between the architect and the maker.
The Battle of Orgreave re-enacts a confrontation during the 1984 miners' strike. Jeremy Deller worked with Artangel, historical re-enactment societies and local people for this event, which was supported by lottery funding.
The Arts Council and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) come together annually to present Architecture Week. The week includes the announcement of the RIBA Regional Awards for Excellence 2001, for which this East Midlands building, 'Conkers', was shortlisted.
VOCALEYES specialises in describing touring theatre for visually impaired audiences, and is currently funded through the National Promoter Development Fund. They are shown here working with a child during a workshop for the English Touring Opera.
The ArtsOnline.com website is being developed by the Arts Council to promote the whole spectrum of the arts, encouraging discussion and enjoyment. Ansuman Biswas produced this image for one of six audio commissions, under the title 'Take 6'.
Chun-Chao Chui creates 'Heart Sutra' at the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester. £2.1 million has been reserved from the first round of the Arts Capital Programme for the centre to develop a new building to meet its local and national needs.
Ocean, a vibrant new music venue in the heart of East London, was built with the help of over £13 million of arts lottery funds. Its multi-cultural programme includes performance, residencies and rehearsals as well as education and training.
Exmouth Beach was a Year of the Artist (YOTA) sand sculpture project by Chris Eckersley, Andrew Baynes and Andy Boal with the local people. Managed by the Regional Arts Boards, and part of the Arts Council's 2000 series, YOTA brought artists into unexpected places.
The Contemporary Music Network (CMN) celebrates its 30th anniversary of touring the latest developments in music by world-class artists around England. Yat-Kha came from Southern Siberia, performing music and throat singing from the Altai-Sayani Mountains of Tuva.
Artificial Rockpools' won a 2001 Sciart research award for its fusion of artistic insight with scientific exploration. Artist Nicola Holmes worked with b consultants and Plymouth and Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratories to research synthetic inter-tidal installations near the River Tees.
Following the Arts Council's Orchestra Review of 1999, the Hallé was the first orchestra admitted to the Stabilisation programme. From the £3.8 million awarded, they have formed the Hallé Youth Orchestra and have also been able to invest in their artistic development and marketing strategy.
Doris Lessing, winner of the 2001 David Cohen British Literature Prize for lifetime achievement. The Arts Council adds £10,000 to the prize to enable the winner to support a young writer or literature organisation. Doris Lessing nominated a National Theatre project working with young people in South London.
The Royal Shakespeare Company worked with the Denver Center Theatre Company to put on the epic, 10-hour Tantalus, written by John Barton and directed by Edward and Peter Hall. This was toured through one of the National Touring Programme's largest grants ever, £460,000.
Catalytic Conversions 2: Future Alert was the online follow-up to an innovative series of seminars on dance and creativity. This online forum was the first hosted on the Arts Council's website and included celebrity guests giving live responses.
Opera North puts on 'Genoveva', by Robert Schumann. Opera North is the resident opera company for the North of England, putting on 50 performances in Leeds annually and touring other cities through the National Touring Programme.
Detritus, choreographed by Wayne McGregor, for Rambert Dance Company's 75th anniversary season. The movements of the dancers are sometimes paralleled and sometimes challenged by the movements of the suspended kinetic limb. Rambert is one of Britain's flagship contemporary dance companies.
The Lawrence Batley Theatre, Yorkshire, worked with Tamasha Theatre Company to bring in new audiences – literally. Audiences travelled to the Balti Kings performance on the Balti Bus. This and other marketing techniques funded through the New Audiences Programme encouraged local Asian communities to participate. |
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