Opera performed at the Holden Gallery, 2019, 10 minute video digest
Opera (2019)
4-hour performance-installation for nine performers.
Made with composer Jack Sheen.
Opera is a 4-hour non-verbal performance-installation designed for a large open space in which an audience can position themselves anywhere throughout its duration. The piece combines visual motifs and musical gestures derived from the generic narrative tropes of opera. Expressions of high drama are exhausted through repetition; characters dance flamboyantly, lounge, wrestle and gaze at one another; musicians strum their instruments; everyone waits.
Performers: Lucia Abbott, David Bainbridge, Svenja Bühl, Juliet Davis-Dufayard, Lawrence Dunn, Alex de Little, Jack Sheen, Danielle Summers, Anna Tulchinskaya
Interview with Rowland Hill and Jack Sheen
Phone footage by Scout Stuart