MIF LIVE, Manchester International Festival’s free online programme for audiences at home, continues this week with FKA twigs: Soundtrack 7, an abstract autobiographical film, created during the artist’s MIF15 residency. It will be streamed via MIF’s YouTube channel on Friday 24 April, 7.30pm, continuing the weekly release of archive shows, talks, and behind-the-scenes insights. The streaming will be followed by an exclusive live in-conversation with FKA twigs and other speakers to be announced.
In July 2015, the charismatic, uncategorisable FKA twigs journeyed to Manchester for a ten-day residency at Old Granada Studios for MIF15. On each of the first seven days, FKA twigs and her team of collaborators created and filmed a new dance-based performance piece in which the artist explored a narrative from her own life. Audiences were admitted in groups of 20 to watch the creative process in action. Then, on the final Friday and Saturday nights of the Festival, the artist performed five very special shows in an intimate space at Old Granada Studios – one of the Festival’s hottest tickets.
Shot on location at MIF15, this film shows the work FKA twigs created and filmed during her residency. Conceptualized as an abstract autobiographical piece, Soundtrack 7 includes performances set to How's That, Ultraviolet, and Good to Love among others, and is bound together by a striking, repeated recitation of Thomas Wyatt's poem I Find No Peace (an excerpt from which opened twigs's critically acclaimed LP1). Emphasising the grit and physicality of dance, twigs describes the project as 'flesh, sweat, feeling, muscle, and a live movement, no air brushing, no frills’. FKA twigs: Soundtrack 7 was commissioned by Manchester International Festival and The Space, and produced by Manchester International Festival.
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