Past Works Recycling Plantmixed-bill night / 2022
available for booking
Out with the new, and in with the old!
Past Works Recycling Plant is a mixed bill night of contemporary performance which we curate and host.
It's a night for 'recycled' performance: for reworked and remixed material, whirlwind retrospectives, rehearsal room B-sides, or the very first work an artist made 10, 20, 30 years ago.
Past Works Recycling Plant is a celebration of the ways that artists change and remain constant; how artists’ work is always already composted and fed back to itself. We reject the pressure to constantly innovate, and instead extend an invitation to time-travel; to make room for the unseen, the almost-forgotten, the stolen, the scribblings-in-the-margins, the what-was-was-there-all-along.
Publicity photo: Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben Kulvichit
UPCOMING DATES
> 4 December 2026 (special EC 10th birthday edition) / The Cube, Bristol
PREVIOUS DATES
> 23 January 2026 / Chisenhale Dance Space
> 5 November 2025 / The Cube, Bristol
> 30 May 2025 / Chisenhale Dance Space, London
> 18 September 2024 / The Cube, Bristol
> 13 June 2024 / Chisenhale Dance Space, London
> 13 November 2022 / Camden People's Theatre, London
PAST WORKS RECYCLING PLANT #6The sixth edition was held at and supported by Chisenhale Dance Sapce, London, as part of their Scratch Renaissance series. With performances by Munesu Mukombe, Susan Kempster & Donald Hutera, Georgina Voss, and Keir Cooper, Lola Rueda, Juan Carlos Otera & Emma Frankland. Photos by Ross Kernahan.
PAST WORKS RECYCLING PLANT #5The fifth edition was a special edition held at The Cube, Bristol. It featured two works by Deborah Pearson: Like You Were Before and The Future Show. The Future Show was presented in a version for 10 young performers. It was written and performed by students and recent graduates of the Bristol School of Acting from a score by Deborah and directed by us.
PAST WORKS RECYCLING PLANT #4The fourth edition was held at and supported by Chisenhale Dance Space, London, as part of their Scratch Renaissance series. With performances by m.o.a.n, Jane Frances Dunlop, Renée Bellamy, and Eliza Jean Scott. Photos by Ross Kernahan.
PAST WORKS RECYCLING PLANT #3The third edition was held at The Cube, Bristol, with performances by Action Hero, Andrew Neil Hayes, Ania Varez, Buoys Buoys Buoys, and us.
PAST WORKS RECYCLING PLANT #2The second edition was held at and supported by Chisenhale Dance Space as part of their WTF Thursdays events. It featured performances by Niamh Keady, sarah koekkoek (w/ Fairy J), Becky Horne, Nat Norland, Robyn Gamston & Isis Clunie, & us. Photos by Reece McMahon & us
PAST WORKS RECYCLING PLANT #1The first edition was held at and supported by Camden People's Theatre, and featured performances by CHA x5, Théïa Maldoom, Sue MacLaine, Jian Yi and Unbaptised Infants. Photos by Jemima Yong.