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Sorry for not delivering etudes over the past few weeks. It’s a mixture of feeling a bit over worked and a bit deflated about etude. It’ll probably be something I talk about in the future but not this week.
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Below are this weeks selections!
Hope you find somehting you love
Josh
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available until Tuesday 7th September
A mother hurls her newborn baby into the outstretched arms of a stranger.
A grandmother remembers the ocean of her homeland.
A woman runs towards the approaching boats shouting “this way!”
Inspired by ancient keening rituals, MOVE is about migration, loss and communal healing. Weaving storytelling, choral soundscape and Gaelic song, five women portray the ebb and flow of people across the globe throughout the ages.
The inaugural show from Disaster Plan; a new company led by Julia Taudevin & Kieran Hurley, the award-winning team behind Blow Off, Beats, Heads Up and Chalk Farm. Presented in partnership with epic theatre-makers Slung Low and the Traverse Theatre, MOVE is staged in a unique open-air performance at Edinburgh’s Silverknowes Beach.
Funeral Doom Spiritual by M. Lamar and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix
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Funeral Doom Spiritual is a song of mourning for what Anthony Paul Farley calls “the motionless movement of death through slavery, segregation, and neo-segregation.” This new monodrama composed by M. Lamar and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix draws on themes of apocalypse, end times, and rapture found in Negro Spirituals, what Lamar calls “Doom Spirituals.” It explores radical historical expressions and futuristic longings for destruction of the white supremacist world order. Taking place a century into the future, the piece features the male soprano Lamar on piano, accompanied by two basses, two contrabasses, and electronics, enveloped in immersive light and video.
Content Warning - Songs about death
Dark Room Revisited by Jchj V. Dussel
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Friday 3rd September
SEXUALITIES, THE GHOST CHOIR
It is high time that the sexual ones lay bare their points of view, their aims, their tendencies for the whole world to see and counter the horror story of the ghost of sexuality with a manifesto of the body, the space itself.
A chorus of ghosts opens this theatre-film with their request to conceptualise body and mind as inseparably intertwined, to refrain from hiding sexual desire and to aggressively destabilize the familiar, traditional, toxic paths of thought and feeling: to queer the future. Along the way, these undead invite a living person into their utopia of a darkroom that is open to all gender identities, in which truths can only be sensed – into which reality shimmers again and again: light breaks through bliss and lust and reverberating memories and threatening forebodings destroy the idea of a gentle whole. In a highly personal, docu-fictional flashback, the audience witnesses how the invited one made it to the entrance of the queer future in the first place and the path they travelled before.
YONY
Quotations are worse than sperm.
Affirming rough edges, Jchj V. Dussel in the text foundation circles around the present through a labyrinth of past and future, placing the decisive parentheses in safe(r) spaces.
Paul Spittler is an independent director and continues his collaboration with Raphaël Amahl Khouri in this project, which already made a glittering splash in the theatre landscape with the world premiere of She He Me at the Kosmos Theater in Vienna. Khouri is playwright and (documentary) theatre artist and contributes a text to DARK ROOM revisited which he performs himself in a cameo appearance.
Content warning - Nudity, sexuality, linguistic expressions of sexualised violence
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Docudrama in cooperation with director Mijke de Jong.
In this film the Wunderbaum actors stop acting and start really taking action. We follow the actors’ desperate attempts to change the world radically.What is actually the real extent of our personal engagement for the common cause…
Maartje Remmers starts a group called ‘The Basic Optimists’ and visits deprived neighbourhoods. Marleen Scholten opens, after the Japanese example, a Crying Cafe and fights against our stressful positivity culture. Matijs Jansen develops an urban gardener app and goes looking for major investors, while Walter sees more benefit in radical actions that should undermine the banking sector and the multinationals. Wine Dierickx gives birth to a child and thinks that this is her best investment in the future. The differences in approach and vision are exerting increasing pressure on the group.
The Birth of Urana Remix by Jota Mombaça
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In her video work, Jota Mombaça envisions a body that transcends colonial binaries and expedient figurations of gender, sexuality and humanness which keep us separated from the natural world.
Rise of The Refrain by Liv Wynter
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Following on from a sold out run of their debut theatre production, Liv Wynter’s new show, Rise of the Refrain, asks what happens when a greek chorus goes on strike.
Written and performed by Liv Wynter, Rise of the Refrain features a live punk band and is performed in spoken word, integrated BSL performed by lead performer Alexandra James, and creative captioning by Rachel Sampley.
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Josh