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 particular room seemed very david lynch inspired, with a group of women doing impressions of various shell-fish (their lobsters were a triumph!) on a stage in a room lit with a giant glitter ball and a bubble machine :-)
(the performers were the Gary Clarke company)
(this room was usually packed out - this was their first performance - couldnt get in the room again later!)
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 particular room seemed very david lynch inspired, with a group of women doing impressions of various shell-fish (their lobsters were a triumph!) on a stage in a room lit with a giant glitter ball and a bubble machine :-)
(the performers were the Gary Clarke company)
(this room was usually packed out - this was their first performance - couldnt get in the room again later!)
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.