This short film presents Elastic Theatre’s new project JULIUS: an imaginary coming of age story, depicted through a fusion of physical performance, film and innovative music-theatre. JULIUS explores the issues raised by OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) with a particular focus on the experience of intrusive thoughts. The commissioning of an original text and a new music score will result in a live multimedia production, accompanied by a film installation,…
This short film presents Elastic Theatre’s new project JULIUS: an imaginary coming of age story, depicted through a fusion of physical performance, film and innovative music-theatre. JULIUS explores the issues raised by OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) with a particular focus on the experience of intrusive thoughts. The commissioning of an original text and a new music score will result in a live multimedia production, accompanied by a film installation,…
Following a sell-out success at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival 2011, critically acclaimed Elastic Theatre invites you to peep into the weird and wonderful imagination of a Baroque artist... With an original score performed live by Celloman, a large black box becomes the window into seventeenth century ideas about the human body, through an exhilarating fusion of comedy, dance-theatre and contemporary opera. In collaboration with London…
Dancer: Adam Kirkham
Voices: Gareth Winters, Amy Prosser
Directed, Filmed, Edit and VFX: Savage Mills Ltd
Concept: Jacek Ludwig Scarso
Illustrations: Nadia Malik
Music: Interlude in D minor by Ivan Hussey
This short film was created to accompany Elastic Theatre's production Baroque Box, in which the company revisits the intriguing ideas about the human body, found in Baroque art and Seventeenth Century science. Much more than a simple trailer,…
To document the creative process behind the making of Baroque Box, Elastic Theatre commissioned Savage Mills, an internationally acclaimed digital media production company, to create a short documentary in response to our work. This collaboration has been a great opportunity to record our journey and reflect on our method and ethos.
This film was realised in collaboration with Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, the Old Royal Naval College…
This is a live recording of Elastic Theatre's sell-out production Baroque Box, in collaboration with Greenwich+Docklands International Festival and London Metropolitan University, in a special staging at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich (June 2011). Supported by the Wellcome Trust.
Baroque Box began as a work in progress showcased at the Riverside Studios last summer, in Tete a Tete: The Opera Festival 2010. Our inspiration initially came from…
Critically acclaimed Elastic Theatre embarks on a journey through Baroque ideas about the human body. Inspired by seventeenth century art and science, this dance-opera takes the audience into a weird and wonderful world of body contradictions: from sacred to secular, from anatomical to voyeuristic, from scientific to superstitious.
This trailer features extracts from a live recording of Baroccata as part of the Tete a Tete Opera Festival 2010, at…
TEAM
Medousa: Maya Sapone
Perseus: Fernando Balsera Pita
Cello: Carina Drury
Flute: Eva Caballero
Librettist: Jacek Ludwig Scarso
Score: Devised collaboratively by the Company, based on Maya Sapone’s vocal improvisations
Musical Supervisor: Andrew Morley
Dramaturg: Rishi Trikha
Movement Coach: Chiara D’Anna
Costume Designer: Giovanni Gobbi
Technical Manager: Drew Turner
Concept and Direction: Jacek Ludwig Scarso
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London based Elastic Theatre specialises in stretching the definition of music theatre by fostering collaborative and innovative approaches to composition, choreography, design and dramaturgy, and by producing work that is flexible enough to be presented in virtually any space, both traditional and non - in this sense, elastic.
Elastic Theatre's productions
London based Elastic Theatre specialises in stretching the definition of music theatre by fostering collaborative and innovative approaches to composition, choreography, design and dramaturgy, and by producing work that is flexible enough to be presented in virtually any space, both traditional and non - in this sense, elastic.
Elastic Theatre's productions have been presented internationally since 2001, under the artistic direction of Jacek Ludwig Scarso.
"Impressive... Multi-disciplined, cross-cultural and trans-national company Elastic Theatre marks itself out”
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ TIME OUT on The Magdalene Mysteries
"Fabulously hot-blooded performance"
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ THE TIMES on Medousa
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