A BLIGHTED LIFE

A multicultural cocktail of dance, raw physicality and fleeting commentary exploring contrasts in extreme attitudes towards homosexuality from around the globe. Where queer clashes with culture.

Set to an eclectic soundtrack of Ethiopian Jazz, African beat, world folk and camp classics. A BLIGHTED LIFE is both oppressive and liberating, light and dark, a mixing pot of cultures and queerness.

‘A BLIGHTED LIFE’ featured North East artists Alicia Meehan and Patrick Ziza

A commission piece for Curious LGBTQIA+ Festival toured to Leeds Yorkshire Dance, Liverpool Homotopia Festival, Arc at Stockton, Swallowsfeet Festival Brighton and Baltic Contemporary art gallery Gateshead.

‘The beautiful strange and wonderful world that is created in ‘A BLIGHTED LIFE’ is a visual and emotional treat. Makes you question your identity and points of view in so many ways’

Gary Clarke- Independent dance artist and choreographer

‘The colourful and thought provoking ‘A BLIGHTED LIFE’ left us feeling energised and glad to be alive’

Audience Member, Unity Theatre Liverpool

‘It’s raw emotions, it’s African beat and vivid colours take us on a hedonistic journey with three dancers’

Nicholas Minns

https://www.writingaboutdance.com/festival/swallowsfeet-festival-2017/

‘A BLIGHTED LIFE was a riot of colour, movement and clothes’

http://www.the-avant-garde.co.uk/2017/08/?m=1

Images by Sara Teresa and Claire Nicolas Fioraso