Giving Voice: Lior, Lou Bennett & Nigel Westlake Ngapa William Cooper came out of a rich collaboration between composer Nigel Westlake, singer-songwriter Lior, and performer and academic Dr Lou Bennett, exploring the story of Yorta Yorta activist William Cooper. In 1938 William Cooper led the Australian Aborigines’ League through the streets of Melbourne in the only…
Giving Voice: Sunny Kim Sunny Kim invited a group of musicians from different musical and cultural backgrounds to share stories of migration, dislocation and motherhood. Here, Sunny, Aviva Endean, Gelarah Pour & Mindy Meng Wang talk about mothers and motherlands, memory, longing and the act of making this piece together.
Choreographing Thought One of a series of short films made during a workshop at the National Theatre Studio. Led by Neil Bartlett and Handspring Puppet Company’s Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones, this session explored choreographing the puppets’ train of thought. A + B (working title) was a fictionalised portrait of Adrian + Basil, written and…
Performance poet Siphiwe Ngwenya filmed on a Soweto street for We Jive Like This, a documentary made in the 90’s in the interegnum between Apartheid and democracy. An extraordinary time which saw an explosion of creativity in the black townships: with every back yard, empty shop, after-hours schoolroom, abandoned warehouse or dusty street corner occupied by culture…
Phia Menard was interviewed in Paris by Rachel Clare Still photographs: Jean-Luc Beaujault Camera: David Scott Sound: John Avery Editor: Deborah May
Piccadilly Circus Circus Appearing unannounced in the centre of London, Piccadilly Circus Circus was a one-day event that saw more than two hundred circus artists perform among the pendant flags and grand, stone buildings of Piccadilly. Showing a little of the plain clothes rehearsals before heading into Sunday, the day of the performance, this film…