Performance Live: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Produced in partnership with Battersea Arts Centre and Arts Council England, Performance Live will showcase on BBC Two a spectrum of some of the most exciting artists working in performance today. This two-year series of programmes features the works of over a dozen artists, producers and arts organisations from across England, who have embraced the challenge of producing innovative pieces of live performance for television.

Programmes commissioned will embrace a range of contemporary art forms: theatre, dance, comedy, spoken-word, live-art and everything in between, as the result of a unique process to embed digital and television production skills at a grassroots level. Artists, producers and art organisations will be tooled up to make art in a new medium for new and larger audiences. Through exploring the middle ground between live performance and television, this series will challenge audience perceptions around what live performance can be.

Series details

• Title: Performance Live
• Format: Variety
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2016-10-01
• Status in TVmaze: To Be Determined
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: BBC iPlayer
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 42 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 21160
• TVDB ID: 317883

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2016-10-01; final listed air date 2018-12-09.
• Season 2: premiered 2020-04-09; final listed air date 2020-04-09.

Source and licence

Adapted from Performance Live on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.