Live Performers

The current opportunity is available for current Manchester Met students, to apply you must be based in the UK for the duration of the role. Performers for Live Performance at FUTURE FLARES Festival in January 2025/ We are looking for three performers for a voice performance as part of the Contemporary Performance Festival FUTURE FLARES., Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to supporting the rights, responsibilities, dignity, health and wellbeing of staff and students through our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.

As part of FUTURE FLARES Festival at Grosvenor East in January 2025, we are combining spoken word performance with experimental video footage of drones. The spoken (and read out) text in German and English switches from current affairs (war in Ukraine) to Cold War politics and layered histories of Europe through the lense of landscapes and personal memory of growing up in divided Germany. The public performance will be 60 min long, and taking place on 24 January 2025 between 1:00pm-2:00pm. You must be available for the performance date and the rehearsal date., This role is only open to current Manchester Met Students.

• Applicants should have a background in contemporary performance, drama or theatre or have a keen interest and some experience in spoken word performances (including poetry) or radio/TV broadcasting.
• Applicants must be keen on performing in public, since the performance will be open to the University and general public.
• We are looking for one candidate who is able to read and speak German (any accent). The mostly English texts will be read (no need to memorise) and stationary microphones will be used. The emphasis is on voicing the texts, individually, but occasionally as part of the performance also in 'polyphony', that is layered.
• Prospective candidates MUST be available for the rehearsal on 21 Jan 2025 (exact time TBC) and for the actual performance on 24 Jan 2025 (12.30pm-2:00pm).