Dr Sketchy’s Anti Art School
It’s art – but not as we know it!
Dr Sketchy’s Anti Art School
The Lowry, Sun 2 November 2008
The Lowry hosts “life drawing” with a difference this Sunday with Dr Sketchy’s Anti Art School. Think “life drawing,” and you may think of sterile rooms, bad lighting, and bored, silent, models with barly a hint of personality. But Dr. Sketchy’s changes all that.
Dr Sketchy’s scours the country to find the most diverse, beautiful, powerful and interesting models to put even more life into life drawing. Heavily combined with Burlesque and driven by a fun, creative atmosphere, Dr Sketchy’s, the alternative life drawing class.
Started in Brooklyn by artist and burlesque girl Molly Crabapple, Dr. Sketchy’s now has 62 branches around the globe, including Hollywood, London, Berlin, Edinburgh, Toronto, Auckland and Melbourne and now Manchester. It’s also spawned a companion book, Dr. Sketchy’s Official Rainy Day Colouring Book, by Crabapple and John Leavitt, published by Sepulculture Books.
The afternoon is full of games and challenges to create constant stimulation for the novice and the expert, All skills levels are encouraged in this great give-it-a-go opportunities for life drawing with no pressure.
Dr Sketchy’s is part of the Nu-Burlesque weekend from Fri 31 October – Sun 2 November in which four exceptional theatre companies have come together in a show of unique daring and style.
Ad Infinitum’s production of Behind the Mirror tells the tale of a bizarre love tryst between a man, his fiancée and his mutinous reflection. Pathway to the Red Sun, a futuristic love story about the search for innocence, unfolds via circus spectacle, poetry, live music, dance and acrobatics. 1927’s multi-award-winning show, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, is a dark and strangely beautiful blend of fractured fairytales and silent film. Limelight and Lunacy from Marie-Louise Flexen uses a vaudevillian style to spin Victorian values on their heads and poke fun at their hypocritical middle class values.
Posted on Tuesday, 28 October 2008 under Press Community & Education Press