Yorkshire – what does it mean to you?
The story of our region is one of movement, the movement of people who have come from all over the world to live here.
New Worlds is discovering what makes Yorkshire the rich and varied region it is today, searching for clues in everything from pottery, ceramics and archaeology, to dance and music, film and animation, and in the games we played as children.
New Worlds is a partnership between imove, the National Centre of Early Music, the National Media Museum, Bradford Council Museums & Galleries, the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Alchemy Anew.
John Siddique
John Siddique has been working to capture the spirit of New Worlds in new words. John is the best-selling author of Full Blood, Recital – An Almanac, Poems From A Northern Soul and The Prize and has contributed poems, stories, essays and articles to publications including The Guardian, Poetry Review, Granta and The Rialto. He...
‘Vertical Road’ by Akram Khan
Verve, the postgraduate performance company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, premieres its 2012 repertory which includes a restaging of Vertical Road by Akram Khan. Vertical Road examines themes of movement and migration, with music from Nithin Sawhney. Full tour dates and details to be announced....
In the Blink of an Eye: Movement and Media
Our world is constantly in motion and this exhibition reveals our fascination with movement and our desire to capture it through photography, film, television and new media. Alongside material from the National Media Museum’s archives, two new imaginative and interactive commissions by artists Bob Levene & Anne-Marie Culhane and Davide Quayola & Memo Akten will explore...
Private: Willi Dorner
International artist and choreographer Willi Dorner leads a series of site-specific performances through historic and contemporary Leeds, interpreting the city’s landscape for unsuspecting audiences. Full dates and locations to be confirmed...
Private: Yorkshire Inspired
A series of performances beginning in Leeds in March, inspired by the movement of people into our region and how this has shaped Yorkshire’s sense of identity. Full tour dates and locations to be confirmed...
Games in the Park
Lister Park and Cartwright Hall, Bradford, with region-wide venues to be announced A series of indoor and outdoor events and exhibitions celebrating games and how they’ve developed as people have moved around the world. Mass participation and online master-classes will revive the games that our grandparents used to play and teach us brand new interactive...
Luis Lara Malvacías
New York based choreographer Luis Lara Malvacías visits Yorkshire to work with New Worlds to create a series of performances in unusual and unexpected locations. Full dates and locations to be announced...
Fragile Stories: Bradford Animation Festival
Each and every person who has moved to Yorkshire to make it their home has a tale to tell and New Worlds is building an archive of hidden stories about moving to our region. World-class animators will capture some of these fragile stories in a series of short films, to be premiered in June 2012...
Bolivian Baroque
UK based instrumentalists Florilegium join forces with the Arakaendar Bolivia Choir to perform music created when 17th century Jesuit missionaries to Bolivia encouraged the resident people to celebrate the Catholic liturgy through their own music, instruments and culture – blending and twisting European and South American musical styles into a distinctive and unique sound....
Alessandro Striggio: Mass in 40 Parts
I Fagiolini stormed the classical charts in March 2011 with the first ever recording of Striggio’s long-lost Mass in a quite amazing 40 Parts. Described by their conductor and founder Robert Hollingworth as “a thumping good piece of music”, this dramatic work is staged within the immense acoustics of York Minster and the audience invited...
