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Include... Solo Performances “Winter Hare’. 1st Performance @ ‘City Lights’ event, City University First performance of piece of violin and piano written by Sarah Collins ‘All in One’. A film/music/theatre performance piece first performed @Thirsty Fish Festival 2009. Film especially co-created in collaboration with documentary maker Georgina Aldana. Solo voice, violin and movement set within “Adventures in a Splintered City” - a Fluxx improvised theatre production run @Tristan Bates Theatre, details HERE Voice and Violin set at the Magic Piano Club. Harrison’s Bar, Kings X, December 08 ‘Strung Together’. Performed at Apocryphal Festival at Camden People’s Theatre, November 08 ‘Bird Woman’. Performed at the Lighthorse open air festival event, Acton Scott Farm Museum, Shropshire using pre-devised sound track of native birdsong, binoculars, bird book and bird watching stool. ‘String Dreams’. Performed at the SHIFTI festival of cross-arts improvisation in Warwick and also at ‘Scratch’ night @BAC ‘Flow Ting’. Performed at Sunday Surprises (improv performance club) at Moving Arts Base, London. Guest Storytelling Musician “Book Ahead” 2008/2009 Music, movement and storytelling events for 3-5 year olds and their carers in every library in the London boroughs of Lewisham, Croydon and Bexley For further info go to RECENT PROJECTS EUNIC European Storytelling Marathon in Amsterdam, 2008 British Council guest artist performing and collaborating (music and storytelling) in multi-lingual event (Central Library, Amsterdam) LINK to further information on the web EUNIC European Storytelling Marathon in Brussels, 2006 and 2007 British Council guest artist performing and collaborating (with music and storytelling) in multi-lingual events and workshops (Pantelone Arthouse, Brussels) A Celebration of Bookstart in Swansea 2008 Guest artist for participatory music, movement and storytelling performances with families and 0-5 yr olds. International Women’s Day Celebrations 2008 Guest musician/ storyteller with mandolin, percussion in libraries in the borough of Lewisham Numerous and regular RIF , Bookstart, Book Ahead, SureStart and festival events (2002 to date) Guest storytelling musician (with violin/mandolin/melodica/harmonium/percussion) for storytelling performances and participatory sessions. Frequent collaborations with fellow musician Malcolm Bruce. For further info visit the Workshops and Alchemy Early Years pages. With Theatre and Dance Puppet (R)Evolution: Devised live music accompaniment (solo violin) for “Hooray for Hollywood” production at Little Angel Theatre. Performed by Tinka Slavicek, Raven Kaliana, Andy Jones, Clara Giraud, and Mel Scott, puppet design by Raven Kaliana, lighting design by Valentina Tamiolaki. The story is set within the exploitative child pornography industry and is revealed in flashes and glimpses from a child’s vantage point, through tabletop puppetry and shadow puppetry. Based on a true story, the child puppets expressively convey both the sense of entrapment and the potential to transcend these circumstances. www.hoorayforhollywood.co.uk Guy Dartnell: Devised and improvised live music and sound for Guy’s solo devised show ‘Unsung’ (using acoustic and electric violins and percussion). Performed at BAC, toured Midlands and North and in the British Council showcase at Edinburgh Fringe. 02, 03 and 04. Improvised voice, violin and movement research project with Guy at BAC as part of his Choreographic Lab participation. Heart n’ Soul: Assistant director and performer in “Going Off” devised and improvised music theatre production with members of Heart n’ Soul, director Guy Dartnell, Pete Flood and Ricky Jodelko at Albany Theatre and BAC. Wonderful Beast Theatre Company: Music Director and Performer for devised music theatre production of ‘Tatterhood’, a Norwegian fairytale. Show runs in London and Highland and Island tours. (Performed with acoustic and electric violins, celtic harp, percussion and voice) 02 and 03. Apocryphal Theatre Company:“Besides, You Lose Your Soul, or a history of Western Civilisation” and “The Jesus Guy”: performer and musician in 2 productions written and directed by Julia Lee Barclay. Interdisciplinary and improvised performances and productions at Camden People’s Theatre, the Tate Modern, recorded for ResonanceFM 06 - ongoing (playing violin, melodica and using voice and movement). ESP (Experiments in Spontaneous Performance): one-off performances (including Spontaneous Festival, Lyon; SHIFTI Festival, Warwick) and runs of shows and research project with interdisciplinary arts improvising ensemble, 02 - ongoing (with violin, melodica, percussion and voice). Director and performer Chris Johnston, other performers: Danielle Allen, Rick Nodine, Gaby Agis and Rex Horan. More info HERE ASITIS: Co-devised, performed and produced music theatre ‘The Secret Life of Hilary Fronde: the Most Astonishing Musician Never’. BAC and Lion and Unicorn Theatre (Click HERE for more info, and HERE to view Quartet for Tuning Forks (Quicktime movie). ASITIS was an inter-disciplinary artists’ cooperative (Hannah Marshall, Alison Blunt, Pete Flood, Lewis Gibson, Tassos Stevens, Julian Richards and many more artists) which devised and put on intriguing experimental events in London (Red Rose Finsbury Park, Southwark Playhouse and other venues) over a period of a few years. Adrenalin Faeries and Goblins: : Performing on violin and interacting with the public as a fairy at Never Never Land (GOH party, Hyde Park) & Party at the Palace (Children’s Party, Buckingham Palace) Awkward Silence Theatre Company: Fiddler in ‘ad hoc’ ensemble playing original Stravinsky score for production of ‘A Soldier’s Tale.’ Theatre Nomad: Solo violinist in” ‘Far Away, Nearby’ devised dance theatre Production, Sioban Davies Studios 06; “Hommage a Yves Klein” in International Workshop Festival 06 and new performance at Colchester Arts Centre, 08. Watch youtube short With Film (live) “All in One” see above solo work for details “ALRAUNE” Performance with and screening of 1928 silent film (108 mins) @BFI, Southbank In the “Vamps, Vixens and Femmes Fatales”, Sound and Silents Festival, ‘09 By invitation from Birds Eye View in collaboration with the British Film Institute, devised skeleton score for improvised performance, performed by Mandrake Trio: Hannah Marshall, Javier Carmona and Alison Blunt Further info: Birds Eye View website and BFI website “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” Latitudes Festival and Little Angel Theatre: Live accompaniment with band Little Sparta for this 1st ever full length animation by Lotte Reiniger (1926) “Theda” Prince Charles Cinema: Live improvised accompaniment with London Improvisers Orchestra for silent film by Georgina Starr “Scratches, Sketches and Salt” ACMI in Melbourne: Improvised live with Joel Stern for short film directed by Sally Goulding (OZ). 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