Performance History
Performance Works (with Zoo Indigo)
2023
Wilding
Wilding is a politically charged performance exploring radical protest and feminism, featuring Emily Davison’s great-great cousin Emma Bourke, Euro-Punk and a pantomime horse.
Collaborator: Emma Bourke
Commissioned: Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
Premiere: November 2023, FEAST Theatre Festival, Malvern
Funded by: Arts Council England
2019/2021
Don't Leave Me This Way
A politically charged performance exploring European identity. Collating sounds, songs and videos from their countries of origin, Zoo Indigo embarked on a performance odyssey, looking for Europe. The Zoo Indigo duo perform a series of citizenship catwalks to a live sound score, as they audition for their motherland. In a playful and provocative exploration of cultural belonging, they grieve the loss of identity, home, and the Eurovision song contest.
Commissioned: Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester and In Good Company, Derby Theatre.
Collaboration with musician Rob Rosa and media artist Barret Hogdson
Online Premiere: November 2020, Voila! Europe Festival
Live Premiere: July 2021, Departure Lounge Festival, Derby Theatre
Funded by the Arts Council England, European Regional Development Fund and the Attenborough Arts Centre.
2017
Celluloid Souls
Interactive multimedia Collaboration with media artist Barret Hodgson and musician Matt Marks
Commissioned: Derby Theatre, In Good Company
Premiere: 7 October 2017, Nottingham Playhouse
Funded by Arts Council England
2016
No Woman’s Land (Performance)
Multimedia Collaboration with media artist Barret Hodgson and musician Matt Marks
Work in Progress presented at Camden People’s Theatre, London
Commissioned: Derby Theatre, In Good Company; Premiere: November 2016
Funded by Arts Council England
Touring in the UK in 2017/2018
No Woman’s Land (Film)
By Tom Walsh in collaboration with
Premiered: Nottingham European Theatre Festival, June 2016
Touring to festivals in the UK 2016/2017
2015
No Woman’s Land (Research)
Autobiographical Performance Walk
Commissioned: Derby Theatre, In Good Company
Funded by Arts Council England
2012-2014
Blueprint
Multimedia theatre/science collaboration
Commissioned: Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham; premiere: 28 April 2012
Funded: Arts Council England
Touring in the UK in 2012/2013
Flat Out
Street Performance
Commissioned: hatch, Nottingham. Presented at Hazard, Manchester
2011
Circle Symphony
Site-specific durational project at Nottingham Playhouse; part of NEAT11 festival
Commissioned: Nottingham Playhouse
Funded: Arts Council England
2009-2012
Under the Covers
Multimedia performance
Collaboration with Vent Media
Commissioned: HATCH, Arts Council England
Premiered at Forest Fringe (Edinburgh);
Funded: Arts Council England
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Publications and Conferences
Forthcoming
Rippel, Ildikó (2025) Performance and Real Relationships: Family, Intimacy and Domesticity in Contemporary European Theatre. London: Bloomsbury, Drama Engage.
Publications
Rippel, Ildikó and Rosie Garton (2021) ‘Loss and being lost: performing precarity through multilingual text, song and music in Zoo Indigo’s Don’t Leave Me This Way' (working title), in Critical Stages, online: (December 2021).
Rippel, Ildikó and Rosie Garton (2019) 'No Woman’s Land: Walking as a Dramaturgical Device in Performance of Maternal Migration', in Critical Stages, available at: .
Rippel, Ildikó and Garton, Rosie (2017) ‘Maternal Raptures/Ruptures’, Performance Research Journal, 22:4, 36-43
Rippel, Ildikó and Garton, Rosie (2016) ‘Constructing Performance’, The Drawing Board.
Rippel, Ildikó and Garton, Rosie (2016) ‘Fantasizing Motherhood’ Live Art and the Maternal (Study Room), LADA, online
Rippel, Ildikó and Garton, Rosie (2011) ‘This is now, this is Live’ Body, Space and Technology Journal, online
Conference Presentations
Wilding (Performance Lecture)
International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), Accra, University of Ghana, July 2023.
Wilding (Performance Lecture and video installation)
Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), Colchester, University of Essex, September 2022.
Don’t Leave Me This Way (Performance Lecture)
International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), Reykjavik, University of Iceland, June 2022.
BRITizenship (Performance Lecture)
International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), Shanghai Theatre Academy, China, July 2019.
No Woman’s Land (Practice as Research Presentation)
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR THEATRE RESEARCH (IFTR) conference Belgrade University of Arts, Serbia, July 2018
No Woman’s Land (Performance Lecture)
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR THEATRE RESEARCH (IFTR) conference Universidade de São Paulo (USP), July 2017
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CULTURE, COMMUNICATION AND TRANSNATIONAL SOCIETIES Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, February 2016
Blueprint/Fragments (Performance Lecture)
THE BODY IN 20TH CENTURY THEATRE Conference De Montfort University, June 2013
A PLACE, A SPACE Conference 蜜桃直播, June 2012
This is Now, this is Live (Performance lecture)
PLAY-PERFORM-PARTICIPATE.
Bi-annual Conference of the International Society for Intermedial Studies
Utrecht University, April 2015
CINEMA IN THEATRE
International Conference, University of Lyon 2, December 2014
JOURNEYS ACROSS MEDIA (JAM)
University of Reading, March 2010
(RE)PERFORMING THE POSTHUMAN
University of Sussex, Brighton, May 2010
DRHA CONFERENCE
Brunel University, September 2010
PERFORMING PRESENCE – FROM THE REAL TO THE VIRTUAL
University of Exeter, March 2009