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Under Glass is a new performance piece by the Clod Ensemble, directed by Suzy Willson, composed by Paul Clark. It is a cabaret of performance pieces, which exist within life-size glass cabinets or jars. Each piece features a different performer (who may be a dancer, a performance artist or an actor), a different original musical score and a distinct visual environment and movement language. The glass containers themselves are specially commissioned pieces, made-to-measure for each performer and each performance space. Examining ideas of claustrophobia and belonging, Under Glass is an exploration of how we can live within our limits.
Commissioned by Sadler's Wells.
Performers
Silvia Mercuriali
Ragnhild Olsen
Sachi Kimura
Director Suzy Willson
Composer Paul Clark
Designer Sarah Blenkinsop
Lighting Designer Hansjorg Schmidt
Photography Manuel Vason
11 April
Sadler's Wells as part of Live Screen
See www.sadlerswells.com for more details.
Further pieces to be developed and presented throughout 2008.
First performed at BAC for The End of The World Cabaret on May 5th, 2007.
Back to Front Gala at Sadler’s Wells 25th September 2007
Performed at the Wellcome Collection as part of Fantastic Voyage in November 2007.
Foyer of Sadler's Wells as part of Sadler's Wells Sampled in January 2008.
National Review of Live Art, Glasgow in February 2008.
SARAH BLENKINSOP Designer
Sarah trained at Wimbledon School of Art and was finalist in The Linbury Prize for Stage Design. She is resident designer for the Clod Ensemble. Other designs for theatre include: Mary Stuart (Derby Playhouse), Titus Andronicus (Riverside Studios and National Tour) Volpone, Thirst, The Importance of Being Earnest and Alice, (Kaos Theatre, National Tour), Midsummer Nights Dream and The Tempest (Salisbury Playhouse), Designs for Opera include: Opera Studio Showcase 2002 (Queen Elizabeth Hall), Linda di Chamonix (English Touring Opera). Costume design for Film includes: Morvern Callar, Dir Lynne Ramsay, (Feature Film), Alpha Male (Feature Film), My Brother Tom (Feature Film), Unconditional Love (TV).
HANSJORG SCHMIDT Lighting designer
Hansjorg is a freelance lighting designer. He lives in London, and lights for theatre, music, fashion and architecture. Hansjorg is a member of the Association of Lighting Designers, ALD. Recent theatre projects include The Next Big Thing at the New Players Theatre; Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens at the Venue; Performances, at Wilton's Music Hall; The Caucasian Chalk Circle, at the Scoop; Red Ladies, for the Clod Ensemble at Bullion Rooms, Hackney Empire; Billy Liar, Liverpool Playhouse; The Dreaming Place, for Fevered Sleep at The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath; Hospitalworks, devised by Theatre-Rites for Theater der Welt, Stuttgart.
SILVIA MERCURIALI Performer
Silvia trained at the Arsenale in Milan. She is a co-founder of Rotozaza with whom she has been creating performances, site specifc events and installations since 1999. Their current works include Doublethink and ooff which toured internationally in 2004/2005 and Five in the morning. She worked with Shunt in Tropicana for the National Theatre, London. She toured Europe/USA with the italian choreographer Roberto Castello’, ALDES, with Il migliore dei mondi possibili. She also worked with: Signal to Noise, Expressive Feat Production and the film-maker Woof-Wan-Bau.
SACHI KIMURA Performer
Sachi Kimura trained with the Shiki theatre company in Japan and Ecole Phillippe Gaulier in UK. She has performed in various theatre and Television projects in the UK, Japan and Switzerland, with companies such as The Conspirators of pleasure, Yellow Earth Theatre, and Oviam-est (Swiss company). Most recently she has been working with Gecko on The Race, she was also in Hiroshima on BBC1 and Boobah on ITV, and regularly teaches as an improvisation tutor at the Actors Centre London and New National theatre Japan.
RAGNHILD OLSEN Performer
Ragnhild Olsen is a freelance dancer based in London. Previous stage experience includes: for The Cholmondeleys: Metalcholica, Birthday, CAR, Kovanschina, Mask of Orpheus, Smithereens; for Aletta Collins Dance Company: This Is The Picture, Che Gelida Manina, Certain Obsessions, Alice Is Back In Wonderland; for Jonathan Burrows Group: The Stop Quartet, All Together, Duet, Quintet, Things I Don’t Know; for Dance Design: Ranverser L’espace; for English National Opera: Ariodante; for Royal Opera House: Macbeth, Aida, Faust.
For Suzy Willson and Paul Clark's biographies click here.
