new arts additions for Latitude

Latitude Festival which takes place over the weekend of Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th July 2011 at Henham Park Estate, Suffolk has announced a host of new arts additions.

The Waterfront Stage arts programme will include the Fuel performing dance piece 'Electric Hotel', and Sadler's Wells presenting an extract from ZooNation's brand new work 'Some Like It Hip Hop', and Tommi Kitti's 'A Trip' performed to the music of John Lee Hooker.

In the Film & Music Arena E4 hit series, 'Misfits' comes to Latitude, and Birds Eye View returns with five new specially commissioned scores to silent films by female musicians, including Imogen Heap & Holst Choir with 'The Seashell and the Clergyman’' (Germaine Dulac, 1927' Micachu and an old cassette player to Lotte Reiniger's 'Hansel and Gretel' (1955); Seaming accompanying Maya Derren's 'Meshes of the Afternoon'’ (1943) and Tara Busch performing alongside Lois Weber's 'Suspense' (1913). In addition Blue Roses is re-scoring classic 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' (1920) and fashion photographer and filmmaker Wendy Bevan is bringing a dark 1930's cabaret inspired performance with her new band Temper Temper. BEV is also programming three short films from their most recent festival including Best Animation award winner ‘Tord and Tord’ (Niki Lindroth von Bahr) and innovative live action and stop-frame ‘Stanley Pickle’ (Vicky Mather), and Ryoji Ikeda brings the datamatics [ver.2.0] project to Latitude’.

Noise Of Art presents 'Attack The Block - Party' inspired by Joe Cornish's newly released film, and cnnecting the Seventies, an era of classic sci-fi imagery and seminal New York disco nights known as Block Parties – with today's club scene. Visual contributions come from the UK's hottest club and up-and-coming street and gallery artists, while a troupe of contemporary dancers and performances artists complete the sensory immersion. Acts include Si Begg, AutoKratz, X-Press 2, Lighthouses, and Dec Shoes, alongside collaborators Mark Scott Wood and Friends, Prick Image, Overlap and The People Pile who will immerse the audience in specially created sci-fi imagery, including solar landscapes, lunar missions, UFO landings and extraordinary creatures. All held together by Noise of Art founder, Ben Osborne.

The award-winning singer Camille O'Sullivan is also confirmed. As is London Contemporary Orchestra who will showcase works by Steve Reich, John Cage, and Frank Zappa. Cellist Peter Gregson will perform 'Vocal' by Max Richter, 'Tu Non Mi Perderai Mai' by Jóhann Jóhannsson and 'Suite for cello and loudspeakers' by Gabriel Prokofiev with the LCO. With The Garden of Living Cinema, and a performance from Rocco Deluca also confirmed.

There's also more authors confirmed for the Literary Arena with 'Instigate Debate' returning this year with the subject title is 'The State Of The Nation: Cuts, Wars and Weddings' with a panel including Rt Hon David Davis MP (Conservative Party), Danni (UK Uncut spokesperson), Liz Jones (The Daily Mail), Jon Cruddas MP (Labour Party, and anti-BNP campaigner), Peter Tatchell (Human Rights campaigner), Gail Porter (The Wright Stuff, broadcaster and former model) and Don Foster MP (Liberal Democrats spokesman for Culture, Media and Sport). Authors also confirmed are Mark Steel, Louise Rennison, Leo Benedictus, Gavin Knight, Darryl Cunningham, and Yarn present ‘Ten Stories about Smoking’ by Stuart Evers.

New Comedy Arena additions announced today are Shappi Khorsandi, Holly Walsh, and Abandoman, As the sun goes down the Comedy Arena transforms into a club featuring DJs Horse Meat Disco vs Pump Up The Volume, Guilty Pleasures, and the Blow Up DJs.

The Poetry Arena will be home to Gavin Osborn, Rob Auton, Trio Thaddeus, Jack Dean, and Mark Niel.

Latitude's Faraway Forest's Winter's Ball extravaganza includes a performance of Dusty Limits' adult pantomime 'Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling' with a cast including Sarah-Louise Young as Cinders, Fancy Chance as Prince Char-Ming Jong Il and Dusty Limits himself as the Wicked Stepmother. This will be followed by a 'Narnian Interlude' hosted by A J James and featuring guest appearances by The White Witch, Pantomime Aslan, and Dirty Santa and his Ho Ho Hos. With presents distributed and plenty of well-hung mistletoe.

Also in The Faraway Forest 'Les Enfants' present a world full of Grimm tales, poisoned apples, snow capped branches and Turkish delight. Throughout the forest there will be grottos and gingerbread houses with interactive features from Grimm’s fairy tales and with twisted versions of Snow White, Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs, and strange white rabbits.

Fashion blogger and Times columnist, Badaude, will also be at Latitude with a brief history of festival dressing and the opportunity for festival goers to reinvent themselves for Latitude's Winter's Ball assisted by top stylists.

For Latitude 2011 Imogen Eveson and Samara Tompsett will collaborate on The Paper House. Imogen will edit The Chronicles of Latitude: an oversized, interactive newspaper to be added to daily by festival-goers and Samara will design its home, an office space-cum-Narnia-esque fantasy land. The space will be used to host artists’ discussions, a fashion shoot and other impromptu happenings.

Latitude's Cabaret Arena also announced new additions with 'A Night in Berlin' - an intimate celebration of the legendary home of cabaret. Featuring controversial crooner Frank Sanazi; burlesque dancer Vicky Butterfly, performance artist Dickie Beau, saucy East End Cabaret, burlesque bad-girls Kitty Bang Bang, Ruby Blue and more. With a live band, cross-dressing dancers and a chance to break down the Berlin Wall a second time, curated and hosted by Dusty Limits.

Pandora’s Playground will be home to The Royal Society for the Pursuit of Lovebirds (RSPLB) mixes amateur bird watching with a dating agency. Quintessentially British, equipped with binoculars, tea and eccentricity The RSPLB offer advice & dating techniques to those they meet. Also in the playground will be The Cave home to Hiru Dance, trained at London Contemporary Dance School, they'll invite only one audience member at a time into The Cave. Videopia will give festival goers the chance to be in the movies with interactive movie making activity that casts, shoots, and screens miniature tributes of Hollywood classics. The Racing Machines & The Interplanetary Post Box is a gaming arcade with a difference created by Ordinary Adventures from cardboard, ribbons and elastic-bands to make low-fi consoles. Created by Angie Bual and Fergus Dunnet of Ordinary Adventures & presented by Trigger.

Elsewhere the Theatre Ashes arrive at Latitude. Three Australian and three UK playwrights put their talents on the line against each other with six mini-plays. Linda Hinchcliffe will bring West Yorkshire's premier styling Salon to Latitude with CC41 Theatre Company when one audience member will receive a haircut live as part of the performance.

The National, Suede, and Paolo Nutini who will headline Latitude. Other acts confirmed are (in alphabetical order) Adam Ant, Anna Calvi, Avi Buffalo, The Bees, Bellowhead, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Caitlin Rose, Caribou, Carl Barat, Chapel Club, Crocodiles, Crystal Fighters, CW Stoneking, Deerhunter, The Duke & The King, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Edwyn Collins, Eels, Esben and the Witch, Everything Everything, Fight Like Apes, Foals, Foster the People, Glasser, Gold Panda, Glasvegas, Graffiti6, Hurts, I Am Kloot, KT Tunstall, Jenny and Johnny, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Kele Okereke, The Leisure Society, Lloyd Cole, Lykke Li, Marques Toliver, My Morning Jacket, The Naked & Famous, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Paloma Faith, Phidel, Rumer, Seasick Steve, Thea Gilmore, Tripwires, Trophy Wife, The Vaccines, Villagers, Violens, Wanda Jackson, The Waterboys, Yann Tiersen. For the line-up details as available please click here.

More acts are still to be announced for six stages dedicated to showcasing an eclectic line-up of established bands and budding new acts, with a stage nestled in a clearing in the woods, and another beside a lake.

Weekend tickets are priced at £170 and £5 for children aged 5 - 12 years, day tickets are priced at £70 for adults, and £5 years for children (5-12), and a campervan Pass is priced at £30. Children aged under 5 are eligible for free tickets for Latitude Festival 2011 when accompanied by a ticket holding adult.

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