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Feedback and Press Quotes From 2008
“The National Review of Live Art is one of the world’s artistic wonders. Each year in Glasgow an international community of artist-innovators of all ages, disciplines, and inclinations congregates to remind one another of the things they believe in. Be prepared to have your life changed”. Michael Mayhew (2008)
Press quotes for NRLA 2007
"Isn't is great to get your head really stuck into something decent without knocking over your favourite lampshade? At New Territories festival in Glasgow, you can do just that. This year, New Moves International once again produces one of the most widely respected festivals on the calendar, profiling fresh, experimental and interdisciplinary performance. This is Scotland's International Festival of Live Arts, and it is not your average art programme. New Territories is an extraordinarily immersive, creative village experience. You become part of it just by being present. From established arrtists to emerging new talent, the radically different direction mapped out in the New Territoires programme ensures the festival's place as one of the most outstanding displays of contemporary live art in the world." www.artshub.co.uk
For five days, every nook and cranny of Tramway will buzz with a programme of live performance, video, art installation and music that is still the envied leader in the international field of what is newest, bravest and best in hybrid art forms. And it’s all right here on our doorstep.
The Herald Arts, Books and Cinema Magazine, 3 February 2007.
The mix defies definition, but if you’re a stranger to these arts let Black Market International intrigue you with its ten rules of practice: nos 1-9 are “don’t be boring” and the tenth is “don’t give up control”. It could become your mantra for life.
The Herald Arts, Books and Cinema, 3 February 2007.
New Territories is a platform to show the world how valuable art’s role can be in society.
Scotland on Sunday, 4 February 2007
For those with an open mind, the packed programme offers plenty to get excited by.
The NRLA is not just a collection of works that transgress genre boundaries; it creates a collective environment where genre does not exist. It seems increasingly to resemble an artistic representation of cyberspace.
The List, 1-15 February 2007
Without question, the hottest ticket is the Scottish premiere of Michael Clark’s Mmm… Originally created in 1992, and inspired by Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, expect a defiantly modern, intelligently humorous and quirkily sexual production.
Sunday Herald, Seven Days, 4 February 2007-02-15
We may think of live art as a weird and sometimes wonderful art form not really suited to straight-laced British tastes. In fact, New Territories is one of the world’s leading platforms for live art. Give it a go; you have nothing to lose but your inhibitions.
Sunday Herald, Seven Days, 4 February 2007-02-15
Press quotes 2006
“EARLIER THIS YEAR I PRESENTED A SOLO AT NRLA 06. I PERFORMED BEHIND A SEATING BANK WITH A COUPLE OF HUNDRED PEOPLE CROWDED AROUND ME—HUDDLED IN A SEMI-CIRCLE. IT WAS THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE FESTIVAL AND I WAS THE FIRST LIVE EVENT. I REMEMBER FEELING LIKE I WAS GOING TO VOMIT RIGHT UP UNTIL THE AUDIENCE WALKED THROUGH THE DOOR. AT THE END OF 20 MINUTES MY SHIRT WAS WET WITH PERSPIRATION. OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS I MET ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, TALKED TO PRESENTERS ABOUT FUTURE POSSIBILITIES AND WATCHED LIVE ART FOR 10 HOURS A DAY. AS AN ARTIST IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST EXHILARATING EXPERIENCES I HAVE HAD TO DATE.”
Rosie Dennis
Among the absolute blessings? Your programme actually, these days the NRLA is the closest I come to acts of faith. It is a huge spiritual excursion for me, a marvellous church of inspired witness to humanity under pressures, yet determinedly breathing deep and passionately in a shared celebration of what can be felt, achieved, revealed, by artists and onlookers alike. I feel warmer through and through just remembering it all. Mary Brennan
Glasgow is the place to be over the next few weeks.New Territories offers the opportunity to see an amazing range of new and established artists of international repute whose work crosses the boundaries between theatre and visual arts, performance and installation, live art and video. The Guardian Guide
The NRLA fields one of the most open-minded, far-reaching and rewardingly varied programme of radical new work in the world The Herald
NRLA has forged a wealth of worthwhile connections between artists, audiences and Tramway the building has simply buzzed with the kind of energy it should be able to be home to all year round. The Herald
Historically, the role of the artist in society has been to produce and criticise culture. In an unstable climate of religious censorship and governmental control over the arts, never has it been more pertinent to restate the value of art and its role in society.
If the Scottish Executive ever needed reassurance of that value then the Minister for tourism, culture and sport, could hardly have done better that to visit Tramway in Glasgow at the weekend for this years National Review of Live Art.
With such consist quality and engagement, Scotland should be proud that Nikki Milican has again succeeded in producing a festival that holds a pride of place in the international cultural calendar. The Scotsman
Not even in the glory days of 1990 and Glasgow City of Culture, have I seen Tramway so buzzing with life. Scotland on Sunday on the NRLA
A festival that will be occasionally absurd, often unequivocally vulgar but irresistibly compulsive, The National Review of Live Art will be a cavalcade of freaks, exhibitionists and unhinged social-commentary which will prove to utterly compelling. The Skinny
A flavour of press & public reaction to previous festivals :
Glasgows festival of the imagination The List
Pick of the week the NRLA If youre only going to see one thing this week The Guardian
Pick of the week the NRLA international work that defies definition by artists who know no rules Scotland on Sunday
a strange subterranean world of performance where anything can happen and frequently does Metro
it is the very ability to destroy her own creations and then raise new ones from the ashes that makes Milican such a brilliant, defiantly risky programmer Metro
The thrill of the new everything from three-hour epics to five-minute snatches of some of the most exciting, innovative and sometimes downright weird bits of dance, art installation performance art and otherwise unspecified creative happenings currently reverberating around the globe. Metro
Pick of the day the NRLA Glaswegian live art lovers must be about the happiest people on planet earth right now The Scotsman
Things you simply have to do low tech, silly, inventive, surreal, demanding, improvised yep its Glasgows annual dip into the avant-garde. The List
Last year it won international recognition (the International Theatre Institute Award), this year it has secured increased SAC funding a faith in work thats never plain, rarely simple and always challenging and at the cutting edge. The Herald
non-stop adventures and experiments The List
As you would expect, the NRLA reflects fresh attitudes in a traumatised society five days of experiences that roller-coastered from the touchingly elegiac to the gloriously vulgar. The Herald