GIVE OR TAKE workshop:

The GIVE OR TAKE workshop facilitates participants to explore and express their own experience of giving and receiving with attention to embodied consent. This theme is creatively considered through dance and live sound, with participants developing creative skills to take to their own artistic practice. This workshop strengthens dance improvisation technique, drawing on experience across contemporary dance, physical-theatre, clown and butoh. This workshop welcomes all levels of movement experience.

 

About the GIVE OR TAKE performance: 

Blending clowning, dance-theatre, and live electronic music, GIVE OR TAKE by Bold Mellon Collective offers a queer critique of what it means to give and to receive. 

 

Unpacking celebrations and transactions, Emilia and Annie have been searching for an answer to the question: does anything ever truly come for free?

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About Bold Mellon Collective: 

Bold Mellon is an award-nominated multidisciplinary arts collective. Run by artists, for artists, Bold Mellon Collective creates and sustains uplifting art platforms for underrepresented LGBTQIA+ creatives. We’ve been artists in residence at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre (2021), NDT Broadgate (2021), Above the Stag Theatre (2021-2022), UGLY DUCK (2024) and Stanley Arts (2022 - ongoing).

 

GIVE OR TAKE has been commissioned by Stanley Arts, and is supported by Arts Council England.

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Praise for past work:

 

OFFIES award nominated 

Belinda 2023, **** (4 stars) ‘eccentric and experimental, from Everything Theatre

 

Forgiving (My Mother) 2024 , ***** (5 stars)  ‘Not to be missed’ , from Lost in Theatreland

 

Audience Feedback from the GIVE OR TAKE WIP

 

‘The synergy between Annie and Emilia is like nothing I've ever witnessed.’ 

 

‘the play is current and important’

 

‘Emilia and Annie are a joy to watch’

 

‘extremely beautiful’

 

‘Incredible chemistry between the performers’

 

‘dynamic, captivating and very powerful’

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