A ground-breaking performance combining circus theatre and visual installation by artist, theatre maker and Shunt director Layla Rosa.
On the ground and in the air this is a compelling mixture of aerial movement, video image and live and pre-recorded sound.
What if… is born out of a personal cultural journey into Layla's lost Saudi Arabian heritage and explores the image of the veil within contemporary society.
The first stage of the process was developed over a year-long period through collaboration with the Muslim women's groups, Muslim employees and artists based at Oxford House in East London, initiated by its artistic director Pippa Bailey.
From this research has evolved an emotive, semi-autobiographical performance that reaches out to anyone that has questioned their cultural expectations.
Strings On Strings
Strings On Strings is a short work-in-progress performance that explores the structural dynamic between music (performed by a live string quartet) and bodies suspended on ropes.
The performance has been created in collaboration with composer Max Ringham. The score is written in whole-tone scales for strings, and sits within a digital audio environment of sampled, textural and recorded sounds.
Strings On Strings was shortlisted for Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe 2010.
Presented by Crying Out Loud in association with La Brèche, Lower Normandy’s Centre for Circus Arts. Developed in association with Jacksons Lane, Farnham Maltings and Shunt.
