That Dark Horse is a newly established theatre and performance collective based in Leeds and Birmingham under the direction of Antonia Beck and Andrew Roberts. We have a shared desire to work as an evolving, interdisciplinary arts collective and create new work in all sorts of different forms and contexts. Everything we make is devised collaboratively and is led by ideas and research.

Friday 25 November 2011

'Where Have You Been?' soundtrack

Our good friends Tom Bush and Mike Waters from Perfect Writing have kindly created the soundtrack for our brand new work 'Where Have You Been?', which will be premiering at A Working Title Festival in Lincoln this week.

Thanks to Tim Hay for layering the vocals and putting it all together for us.

Fancy a listen? Check it out here by following this link



Thursday 24 November 2011

Horses need companionship!

Today has been a bit lonely day for That Dark Horse as I (Antonia) was left on my own in Lincoln whilst Andy returned home for the day.

I spent the morning working with a contemporary fine art student called Kim, and we started creating an interaction which will be shown as part of our headphone journey this weekend. I then confined myself to the Tower Bar on Brayford Poole to catch up on admin.

Looking forward to Andy returning tomorrow and the fun and games continuing in Lincoln!




Wednesday 23 November 2011

Messing about on the river



So That Dark Horse have had a very productive day in Lincoln working on our brand new piece 'Where Have You Been?'.

We have even managed to learn a new skill. Check out these lovely paper boats, crafted by our very own fair hands

That Dark Horse Rides into Lincoln for A Working Title Festival

Neigh.

And Welcome.

That Dark Horse has galloped in to Lincoln to put the finishing touches on their brand new piece premiering this weekend: Where Have You Been?

Where Have You Been is a headphone guided tour of Lincoln which explores the city's history and how it has evolved over time. That Dark Horse have taken the canal as the main focus for this work and have drawn upon people's memories and stories to create a journey that includes live performance, story telling and soundscaping.

Performances on Sat 26th and Sun 27th November.
No need to book, free performances taking place between the following times:

12-1pm
2-3pm
4-5pm

Please bring your own MP3 player and cable.
The walk starts from the upstairs bar at the Tower Bar on Brayford Pool, Lincoln.

That Dark Horse looks forward to seeing you.

This is part of A Working Title festival

Thursday 25 August 2011

That Dark Horse Cabaret

We are also working towards hosting a monthly cabaret night in Leeds, that will showcase national, and local artists working in cabaret, live art, circus and freak show and burlesque, followed by bands and DJs.

We are currently hunting down venues, artists, comperes and performers to make this happen.

Could that be you? If so please email andrewwilliamroberts@gmail.com with the subject CABARET.

That Dark Horse

We have been working pretty hard at setting up That Dark Horse over the last two months. We've been putting in submissions for work in all sorts of contexts.

In september we will set to work on our new performance piece (working title)Missing, a performance that fuses verbatim stories, fictional stories, movement, story telling and puppeteering to tell the many stories of people that have gone missing, people that miss other people and stories from people who have been reunited. We aim to create a poignant performance that is surprisingly humorous and raises awareness of the often underrepresented issue of missing people today.