Overworlds and Underworlds
This weekend saw a large arts event take place in Leeds as part of the Cultural Olympiad in the run up to the London Olympics - various performances and installations took place around the County Arcade, Briggate, and in the Dark Arches tunnels below the train station.
For me, the best part was The Dark Arches - I walk through them daily on the way to/from work, so i've been watching with interest while over the course of a week an unfeasily large amount of high-end lighting and sound equipment was installed, transforming the tunnels and lockups into a dark and mysterious underworld.
The event as a whole was dreamt up by animators the Quay Brothers, with involvement from the various leeds theatre, opera and dance organisations.
This weekend saw a large arts event take place in Leeds as part of the Cultural Olympiad in the run up to the London Olympics - various performances and installations took place around the County Arcade, Briggate, and in the Dark Arches tunnels below the train station.
For me, the best part was The Dark Arches - I walk through them daily on the way to/from work, so i've been watching with interest while over the course of a week an unfeasily large amount of high-end lighting and sound equipment was installed, transforming the tunnels and lockups into a dark and mysterious underworld.
The event as a whole was dreamt up by animators the Quay Brothers, with involvement from the various leeds theatre, opera and dance organisations.
A piece by Phoenix Dance company, not entirely sure what the story was behind it, they looked a bit like zombie survivors, and a very long piece saw them re-arrange huge numbers of chairs. The lighting in here was absolutely *stunning* (as was the music) (consequently unless you got there first thing there was no-way you were getting anywhere near the front of the audience - luckily i'm very tall so eventually got near enough i could pap over peoples heads! Check out my girlfriends shots - she was lucky enough to get right to the front and has some amazing shots! www.flickr.com/photos/wsogmm/sets/72157629820222776/with/...
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This weekend saw a large arts event take place in Leeds as part of the Cultural Olympiad in the run up to the London Olympics - various performances and installations took place around the County Arcade, Briggate, and in the Dark Arches tunnels below the train station.
For me, the best part was The Dark Arches - I walk through them daily on the way to/from work, so i've been watching with interest while over the course of a week an unfeasily large amount of high-end lighting and sound equipment was installed, transforming the tunnels and lockups into a dark and mysterious underworld.
The event as a whole was dreamt up by animators the Quay Brothers, with involvement from the various leeds theatre, opera and dance organisations.
Overworlds and Underworlds
This weekend saw a large arts event take place in Leeds as part of the Cultural Olympiad in the run up to the London Olympics - various performances and installations took place around the County Arcade, Briggate, and in the Dark Arches tunnels below the train station.
For me, the best part was The Dark Arches - I walk through them daily on the way to/from work, so i've been watching with interest while over the course of a week an unfeasily large amount of high-end lighting and sound equipment was installed, transforming the tunnels and lockups into a dark and mysterious underworld.
The event as a whole was dreamt up by animators the Quay Brothers, with involvement from the various leeds theatre, opera and dance organisations.
This weekend saw a large arts event take place in Leeds as part of the Cultural Olympiad in the run up to the London Olympics - various performances and installations took place around the County Arcade, Briggate, and in the Dark Arches tunnels below the train station.
For me, the best part was The Dark Arches - I walk through them daily on the way to/from work, so i've been watching with interest while over the course of a week an unfeasily large amount of high-end lighting and sound equipment was installed, transforming the tunnels and lockups into a dark and mysterious underworld.
The event as a whole was dreamt up by animators the Quay Brothers, with involvement from the various leeds theatre, opera and dance organisations.
A piece by Phoenix Dance company, not entirely sure what the story was behind it, they looked a bit like zombie survivors, and a very long piece saw them re-arrange huge numbers of chairs. The lighting in here was absolutely *stunning* (as was the music) (consequently unless you got there first thing there was no-way you were getting anywhere near the front of the audience - luckily i'm very tall so eventually got near enough i could pap over peoples heads! Check out my girlfriends shots - she was lucky enough to get right to the front and has some amazing shots! www.flickr.com/photos/wsogmm/sets/72157629820222776/with/...
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This weekend saw a large arts event take place in Leeds as part of the Cultural Olympiad in the run up to the London Olympics - various performances and installations took place around the County Arcade, Briggate, and in the Dark Arches tunnels below the train station.
For me, the best part was The Dark Arches - I walk through them daily on the way to/from work, so i've been watching with interest while over the course of a week an unfeasily large amount of high-end lighting and sound equipment was installed, transforming the tunnels and lockups into a dark and mysterious underworld.
The event as a whole was dreamt up by animators the Quay Brothers, with involvement from the various leeds theatre, opera and dance organisations.