Sewing Your Shadow
Performance / Public Art, London, UK, 2010An East London Dance and T-Mobile Big Dance commission produced by Artsadmin and Chisenhale Dance Space. Supported by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and presented as part of CREATE 10.
When does a memory become a story?
When does a story become a museum?
Sewing Your Shadow was a site-specific promenade performance created for Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood. A cabinet’s worth of memories, gestures and movement was collected from a company of professional performers, older dancers from Green Candle Dance Company, children from Chisenhale Primary School and staff at the museum. The memories were re-imagined as fragments of song, gesture, movement and story - all choreographed into a twilight stroll through the museum.
On arrival, audience members discovered that the museum was now being run by school children and they were given a red wax key to carry with them as they explored the museum….
Credits
Performers: Catherine Bennett, Karen Christopher, Christina Ciupke, Jenny Minton
Costume: Lucille Acevedo-Jones
Lighting: Steve Wald
Producer: Cheryl Pierce