more arts additions for Latitude

More new arts additions have been announced for the bill a this summer's Latitude Festivalwhich takes place at Henham Park Estate, Suffolk.

Composer and classical arranger Joby Talbot has been added to the Film & Music Arena bill performing his score to the 1917 silent film 'The Dying Swan', with Icelandic string group Amiina performing their accompaniment to three 1930's fairytale animations by Lotte Reiniger, and Noise Of Art are bringing UFOs with their live extraterrestrial disco music, surround visuals, costumed aliens, space freaks, rare Cosmonaut and space film, mobile projectionists, interactive performance, an alien artefact hunt (offering festival goers the chance to take a work of art home with them) and space disco dancing, while 360 degree surround visual pieces by Your Mum and Overlap will change the look and feel of Film and Music Arena. The music will feature a one-off cosmic disco super group and two of London's leading DJs. British film Soulboy will also get a screening in the Film & Music Arena.

Confirmed for the The Waterfront Stage are Sadler's Wells who present a programme of modern ballet under the direction of Michael Nunn & William Trevitt, including a re-working of 'Torsion' choreographed by Russell Maliphant, and the directing duo's 'Balletboyz. UK dance company ZooNation will be bringing their 'ZooYouth' troupe of Hip Hoppers to the stage. ZooYouth is comprised of some of the best young hip hop dancers in the UK with ages ranging from 7 years old through to 16. Adding to this showcase of dance Sadler's Wells will also present Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and his production 'Faun'. Commissioned as part of a tribute to Sergei Diaghilev and Les Ballet Russes, with additional music by Nitin Sawhney and costumes by leading fashion designer Hussein Chalayan.

The comedy line-up has expanded with the inclusion of Rufus Hound, Northern Irish comic and actor Jimeoin, and Irish hip-hop duo Abandoman fronted by Robert Broderick and ably backed by multi-instrumentalist James Hancox.

Also just announced across the weekend are more writers for the Literary Arena including Latitude foraging workshops regular Miles Irving, author of 'The Forager's Handbook', author and TV presenter Reverend Peter Owen-Jones, Australian singer songwriter Robert Forster, showbiz lawyer Steven Machat, and journalists Mike Gayle & Jojo Moyes, and Katharine Hibbert.

Whilst newly announced for the Cabaret Arena are The La De Dahs, experimental stand-up comic Lee Kern, and Ward & White's Karaoke Circus featuring a live band including comedians Danielle Ward and Martin White alongside various comedians performing karaoke.

The Poetry Arena will host an hour long extravaganza, 'It's a Poetry Knockout!' with Daljit Nagra, as well as Simon Barraclough's poetic homage to Hitchcock's iconic film called 'Psycho Poetica' with Annie Freud, Matthew Welton, Emily Berry, Isobel Dixon, Dzifa Benson, Chris McCabe, Luke Heeley, Heather Phillipson, Joe Dunthorne, Jane Draycott, and Richard Price. The performance will also feature string quartet Bleeding Heart Narrative.

The Theatre Arena will see Duke Special performing music from his three albums: 'The Stage, A Book & The Silver Screen'. HighTide will present 'The Theatre EP', three short boutique musicals with an extra special bonus track, 'Into The Woods', a 'Musical for One', and in 'Karaoke Musical' offers festival goers a chance play both Ian McEllan and Whitney Houston. Also coming to Latitude are the National Student Drama Festival with their version of the classic tale 'The Wind In The Willows'.

In Latitude's 'fairytale' Faraway Forest a large ensemble with flutes, big brass and a full string section, including a harp will play a mix of over-orchestrated comedy songs, eccentric instrumentals and lovely ballads as the orchestral cabaret-pop of London's The Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra comes unamplified to the festival.

The music stages which will play host to more than 100 acts include Obelisk, The Word Arena, Sunrise Arena and The Lake Stage have line-up that includes Florence and The Machine, Belle and Sebastian, and Vampire Weekend headlining, as well as performances by Empire Of The Sun, The National, The xx, Grizzly Bear, The Maccabees, Rodrigo y Gabriela, James, Richard Hawley, The Horrors, Jonsi, Laura Marling, Hockey, Mumford & Sons, Corinne Bailey Rae, with many more acts still to be announced. For fuller music (and more) line-up details click here.

Across seven separate arenas, as well as making use of the woods and lake, the festival will showcase comics, filmmakers, visual artists, poets, authors, actors, directors and dancers in the Arts Arenas - The Comedy, Poetry, Literacy, Theatre, Music & Film, Dance and Cabaret Arena.

Tickets for Latitude have sold out. Latitude is confirmed as taking place from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th July 2010, with the festival opening it's gates on Thursday 15th July for some limited non-musical entertainment.

Coach travel can be purchased online, with or without combined festival tickets. To buy coach tickets, click here.

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