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Some face for the algorithm. Us, in the flesh, telling you about the show we are doing NEXT WEEK, in Bristol and (as we utterly fail to mention in the video itself) Exeter. 🕳️WAYS OF KNOWING🕳️ 20th April at Exeter Phoenix 21st-23rd April at Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol Links for both in our bio #bristol #theatre #dance #performance #hermits

🕳️ WAYS OF KNOWING 🕳️ Uncovering a mysterious series of visions and omens, Ways of Knowing is a dance-theatre work which investigates the tools we use to predict and prophesy the future, from early meteorological devices to corporate trend forecasting and divination. Amidst an intricate system of set and improvised choreography, found text and visceral sound design, award-winning artists Emergency Chorus wield both science and magic to reckon with our precarious present and enter into the unknown. 📆 20th April ⏰ 7:30pm 📍Exeter Phoenix @exeterphoenix 📆 21st-23rd April ⏰ 7:30pm 📍Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol @thewardrobetheatre Tickets in bio!

We had a blast at @cambridgejunction with Ways of Knowing. Big thanks to Matt, Hendrix and Sophie from CJ, and to Maddy Costa for hosting a Theatre Club after the show. Wizard @hsfp on tech and @natnorland from afar with the sick sound rework. Next stops: EXETER: 20 April @exeterphoenix BRISTOL: 21-23 April @thewardrobetheatre See you there?

It is just two weeks until Ways of Knowing touches down at @cambridgejunction ! Come and join us for this strange, mysterious deep dive into methods for predicting the future - a world of Victorian inventors, economics conferences, hermits, smoke and darkness. 18-19 March @cambridgejunction Tickets at link in bio #cambridge #theatre #experimental #dance #liveart

🪨🔮 WAYS OF KNOWING on tour 🔮🪨 17-18 MARCH / CAMBRIDGE @cambridgejunction 20 APRIL / EXETER @exeterphoenix 21-23 APRIL / BRISTOL @thewardrobetheatre Behold! A council of leeches, a mystic hermit, a Victorian inventor, an economics conference, a dark and dripping cave. Uncovering a mysterious series of visions and omens, Ways of Knowing is a dance theatre work which delves into the ways we predict and prophesy the future, from early meteorological devices to corporate trend forecasting and divination. Amidst an intricate system of set and improvised choreography, found text and visceral sound design, award-winning artists Emergency Chorus wield both science and magic to reckon with our precarious present and enter into the unknown. Winner of the Untapped Award 2025, and following their previous acclaimed shows Landscape (1989) and CELEBRATION, Ways of Knowing sees Emergency Chorus return to the stage with a strange and cloudy choreography, a descent into darkness, a startling revelation.

WAYS OF KNOWING, on tour! 🪨🔮🪨🔮🪨🔮 We’re over the moon and down a dark cave to be presenting Ways of Knowing in Cambridge, Exeter and our home city Bristol this Spring (we are pushing ahead despite not getting our arts council bid - if this show has taught us anything, it is how to live with uncertainty!). Come and read the runes with us in one of these places. Thank you @cambridgejunction @exeterphoenix @thewardrobetheatre for having us. Tickets are on sale - the link in bio has everything you need. Created and performed by: @apollohelo and @bkulvichit Sound design & dramaturgy: @natnorland Set and costume design: @blythejessie Lighting design: @bkulvichit Choreographic support: @charlie.ashwell Outside eye: @karenchristopher63 Technical stage manager: @hsfp Skirt co-design and fabrication: @frxst_____ 📷 1) Michael Aiden, 2) @jemimayong

📐⭕🟩💎 SHAPENOTE SINGING @cafekino Thurs 15th Jan 7:30pm w/ Bristol Sacred Harp come hear/try shapenote folk singing! Bristol Sacred Harp invites you to shout away the winter gloom with an evening of old tunes, rafter-shaking sound, dizzying fugues, wild harmony, songs for survival. this evening is a rare chance to watch (and maybe even join in...) this 200+ year old practice of four-part harmony singing. open to all experiences, all backgrounds, all comers, people of all faiths and none. it's loud, communal, fun - and strange/wonderful sing words and melodies that people wrote hundreds of years ago about feeling lost, or held, or scared, or grateful. REGULAR EVENTS: we sing every week on Tuesday evenings at St Matthew's, Cotham Side (~10 mins walk from Kino) and host yearly all-weekend singings in May and July. see for more info or get in touch at [email protected] ! COST: Sacred Harp singing is always free, but for this evening, we're taking donations towards Bristol Refugee Rights. we suggest £1-5 per person if you can afford it. NOTAFLOF. space hire kindly provided for free by Cafe Kino! free tix via Headfirst, donations can be given via Headfirst or on the door. limited capacity! TIMINGS: 7pm - doors 7:30pm - singing + beginner's intro 8:30pm - break 8:50pm - singing 9:30pm - hang + chat LOCATION: Cafe Kino, 108 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3RU ACCESS: - this event is taking place in the Cafe Kino Basement, which unfortunately means it is not wheelchair accessible! there is a flight of stairs down to the space. our regular singing space (St Matthew's Church Hall, Cotham Side) is wheelchair accessible with a ramp, lift and a wide accessible bathroom. - shapenote singing is very informal - you are welcome to come and go as you please, take a break, ask questions, sit out for a moment, join in. Main photo: Mandy Rose B/W photos: Joyce Smith @actual_air

the wheel has tuuuuuuuurned one full ciiiiiiiircle: - container with the team of dreams xx - singing with 300+ people in massachusetts - winning untapped award with ben for ways of knowing (hard work, but grateful that nearly 1000 people saw the show! i believe in its strangeness) - started writing sacred harp tunes - nearly every day - magic hermit trip to the highlands - something in your voice R&D with hannah, lorea, yas + flo - time spent in graveyards - an understudy turn in the thicket - a favourite work/sound-logic-world of mine - teaching experimental theatre to undergrads on the wardrobe ensemble course, a thrill and a reward some things i learnt: - i like and am good at live-processing performance/vocal scores. let me know if you need this (fairly niche) skill for anything. - i think i should work with more musicians/songwriters in 2026? let me know if this is you. i am slowly developing knowledge of an (incredibly niche) style of four-part folk hymn-writing. - dramaturgy/pattern-brain go brrrr. also for this should you hire me.

THE FUTURE SHOW Or: how many live artists can you sit at a desk? We’ve been working with a fab group of students and recent grads from Bristol School of Acting to write and stage a new version of @nameddeborah ’s The Future Show. A patchwork of predictions, a mirror-image autobiography. Come and see them do their thing at Past Works Recycling Plant on Wednesday this week! Past Works Recycling Plant: Time Pieces by Deborah Pearson 5th November, @cubemicroplex 7:30pm doors, 8pm start £12 standard/£10 concession Tickets on Headfirst

WE ONLY HAVE TWO SHOWS LEFT It’s the home stretch. We feel like dried out leeches. We love this show. Today and tomorrow and then some sleep. Still tickets available. 3:30pm at Underbelly Cowgate 📸 Michael Aiden

NEW WAYS OF KNOWING PRODUCTION PHOTOS (thank you @michaelaidenphotography ) Only 5 more performances of Ways of Knowing left at the Edinburgh Fringe! Maybe one of these performances is in your future. Come by for leeches, rain, clouds, darkness, reverb, and corporate techno babble. By the way, we are so happy to be doing the show in this space - we didn’t make it with the dank, drippy cave that is Big Belly in mind, but we might as well have done. The show will be about again, but probably never again in as perfect a theatre as this? Even more reason to catch the end of our Fringe run…

Sharing Ways of Knowing at the Fringe is proving to be a wild ride - the show is a lot more divisive than we thought it would be! There have been tears of joy in the audience, and there have been walkouts (on one occasion within the first 10 minutes! You gotta respect it). The intensely negative reactions are certainly weird to deal with, because we set out not at all to provoke, but simply to make something that we ourselves would enjoy watching. Everyone is welcome. Here are two recent audience reviews… ‘a piece made with incredible thoughtfulness and intention… like nothing I’ve ever seen’ or ‘repetitive mulch’? Come and decide for yourself, I suppose? Ways of Knowing Underbelly Cowgate, 3:30pm Until 24th August (not 11th, 18th) Ticket link in bio