Archive

2022

LIFT 2022 took 'unexpected perspectives' as its theme, exploring how global tensions including international conflict, ecological disaster and political turmoil impact us all on a personal level.

LIFT 2022 invited the audience to physically shift how they take in the world and experience performance – whether from a birds’ eye view (in Sun & Sea), around a campfire (for գիշեր | gisher), or (with Radio Ghost), a game played in a shopping centre.

Artists and companies

Alex Mein

Kitchen Conversations

London

Ali (Nomadic Libaax)

Uplifted

London

Titilola Dawudu

Dreamers

London

Khadija Choudhury

Uplifted

London

Nyasha Duri

Uplifted

London

Qing Li

Uplifted

London

Reuben Johnson

Uplifted

London

Jhonathan Goncalves

Uplifted

London

Anna Ostrovskaia

Uplifted

London

Amy Tong

Uplifted

London

Lucia Pietroiusti

Sun & Sea

London

Maryan Abdulkarim

We Should All Be Dreaming

Helsinki

Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė

Sun & Sea

Vilnius

Vaiva Grainytė

Sun & Sea

Lithuania and Canada

Lina Lapelyte

Sun & Sea

London

Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill

The Making of Pinocchio

Glasgow

Timi Akindele-Ajani

Feminine and the Foreign

London

Tim Spooner

The Making of Pinocchio

London

The Nest Collective

The Feminine and the Foreign

Nairobi

Sonya Lindfors

We Should All Be Dreaming

Helsinki

Jorge Lopes Ramos

Radio Ghost

London

Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin

գիշեր | gisher

Milan
“An intensely beautiful experience.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Financial Times
“Shaping what performance can be.”
— Time Out
“Pushing traditional boundaries at exactly the time when they need to be challenged.”
— What’s On Stage

2022 trailers

2022 reflections

Article

LIFT 2022, the highlights

For LIFT's 2022 edition we welcomed audiences from across London to 11 venues in 8 boroughs, bringing 28 theatre-makers, performers,…
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Article

Kitchen Conversations reflections

Artist and academic Alex Mein was asked to record Kitchen Conversations, a series of curated conversations that took place at…
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Article

Uplifted: Reuben’s reflections

Reuben is one of LIFT's young producers in 2022.
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Article

Dreamers, the Conference: Reflection

Storyteller and theatre producer Titlola Dawadu reflects on Dreamers, the Conference, a participatory event that happened during LIFT's 2022 festival.
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Article

Rythym and Rhyme, a reflection

Ali, also known as Nomadic Libaax (libaax means lion in Somali) designed and led a workshop at Uplifted, the event…
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