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Making a song and dance: MIF Creative at MIF15
For each Festival, MIF invites leading artists from home and abroad to create ambitious new work in partnership with local people under the banner of MIF Creative. Over the past four festivals, MIF...
View ArticleFestival Square Photography Competition
Come Sunday night, Festival Square will be closing its doors for the last time until 2017. The Mancorialist has been photographing the action on the Square throughout MIF15 - but we'd also love to see...
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Welcome to the morning after!
At 6pm last night, the gates closed at Festival Square for the final time, signalling the end of MIF15. After 18 extraordinary days of world premieres and special events, Manchester International...
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A quick thank-you
With MIF15 now confined to memory, we’ve a lot of people to thank for helping stage the last 18 extraordinary days of world premieres and special events. The artists, of course, for their diligence and...
View ArticleThank you to all our volunteers!
From the Festival Square bar staff to our corporate sponsors to the artists themselves, thousands of people helped make MIF what it is. However, we’d like to take a quick moment to single out one...
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Ed Atkins in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Held at Manchester Art Gallery and one of the highlights of MIF15, Ed Atkins' remarkable Performance Capture was a unique musing on digital culture and identity, for which the artist captured the words...
View ArticleMIF15 Highlights
Once again, we'd like to thank everyone who supported MIF15, which in our humble opinion was the best Festival yet. MIF15 ended just under two weeks ago, but you can relive some of the best moments...
View ArticleMIF15 by numbers
Since the final curtain fell on MIF15 on 19 July, we’ve had a chance to reflect on the biggest Festival so far. We know it was the biggest because we’ve been doing our sums, crunching the Festival...
View ArticleWatch MIF15 Highlights Film
One Festival. 18 days. 22 commissions and special events. 230 performances. 259,648 attendees. Since the end of MIF15, we’ve been crunching the numbers on what we modestly think was the best MIF so far...
View ArticleNew ED for MIF
Fiona Gasper announced as new Executive Director at Manchester International FestivalManchester International Festival today announces the appointment of Fiona Gasper as its new Executive Director....
View ArticleMerry Christmas from MIF
As 2015 draws to a close, we’d like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year with a short reminder of this summer’s Festival.Manchester Chamber Choir was one of ten local singing...
View ArticleMIF15 publications
As 2015 draws to a close, MIF has just released two new publications as a reminder of this summer’s Festival.The Little Black Book is a comprehensive look back at MIF15, with features on all our shows...
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Akram Khan's Until the Lions
Akram Khan’s newest work Until the Lions has received fantastic reviews at the Roundhouse where it is currently playing before embarking on an international tour. See below for review highlights and a...
View ArticleHello from John McGrath
I’m writing this at the airport on the way to Mumbai. It’s five weeks now since since I started full time as the new Artistic Director for Manchester International Festival, and there’s certainly been...
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Björk : Digital
We've been working with incomparable Icelandic singer Björk to produce a new exhibition on the other side of the world. Björk : Digital opened in Australia as part of Vivid Sydney, an annual...
View Articlewonder.land in Paris
After wowing audiences at MIF15 and recently completing a successful run at the National Theatre in London, wonder.land opened in Paris on 7 June to fantastic reviews. Created by Damon Albarn, Moira...
View ArticleJohn McGrath - look ahead to MIF17
It’s almost midnight on June 28 2016, and I’ve just arrived back from a sublime Kamasi Washington gig at the Manchester Academy. Tomorrow it will be just one year to go before the 2017 Manchester...
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FKA twigs in Brooklyn
The incredible FKA twigs came to MIF15 to createSoundtrack 7, a semi-autobiographical dance-based performance piece.Last week, the completed work received its world premiere at BAM in Brooklyn, with...
View ArticleBjörk : Digital at Somerset House
We’ve recently been working with Björk on Björk Digital, an immersive virtual reality exhibition created by the incomparable Icelandic singer and two-time MIF artist. After its premiere in Sydney two...
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Tayah’s story
Tayah’s storyAs part of MIF’s Giselle Creative Fellows scheme, nine young creatives from Greater Manchester are gaining valuable experience of putting together a major world-premiere production. One of...
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Design for dance - blog by Lauren Karpowicz
Designs for dance Ahead of Akram Khan’s new production of Giselle, which premieres in Manchester this month, Oscar-winning designer Tim Yip invited fashion students from across the North West to create...
View ArticleAkram Khan’s Giselle Takeover
There’s just over 2 weeks to go until MIF, English National Ballet (ENB) and Sadler’s Wells Theatre present the world premiere of Akram Khan’s Giselle, a new version of one of the world’s great...
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Acclaim for Giselle
Giselle is touring in Bristol (18-22 Oct), Southampton (26-29 Oct) and London (sold out). Tickets are still available – click here to buy yours.Tuesday 27th September saw the world premiere of Akram...
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Drawing on Giselle
As part of our Dialogues with Giselle engagement programme, we were delighted to host an age-friendly Giselle live drawing session, inviting older participants from across Manchester to watch and...
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Curing Albrecht
Another strand of our extensive engagement programme has seen ENB and MIF team up to create Curing Albrecht, a special short film inspired by our new version of the classic ballet. Shot on location at...
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