My production Hoochie Coochie has been asked to produce one of the flagship events for Bath Fringe Festival’s Spiegeltent venue.
A Spiegeltent is a beautiful pavilion made of mahogany, glass and mirrors which originates from Europe at the turn of the last century, and they are very special things indeed.
The show takes place on Saturday 25th of May and features highly skilled circus acts alongside surreal cabaret.
Tickets can be purchased from Bath Fringe
Following holding a Hoochie Coochie event at The Mauretania, I have been asked by the clubs ownership to produce the venue. I am really excited about the challenge, the venue is currently underused and the client base are not always fitting to the space. I aim to relaunch it as a thriving cultural venue.
Not only is the Mauretania visually stunning, it has a rich history. It’s interiors including wood panelling, ornate plaster work and glass domed ceiling which were originally from the great Mauretania ocean liner. The Muaretania was at the time the biggest ever moving vehicle, the fastest ever moving vehicle and also the most opulent vessel of her time. When she was scrapped in 1935 a Bristol wine merchant bought some of her fittings and installed them in his head quarters, this became The Mauretania Club and fittings have been carefully preserved to this day.
I hope to put Mauretania back on the map as a historical Bristol treasure
I am curating the circus and cabaret big top for Chelmsford Fling council funded festival. The production features highly skilled circus and speciality acts as well as giving a platform to new local performers. As well as the bingo there will be a healthy dose of fun interactive nonsense in the form of games and bingo. The show is hosted by superstar compere Mr Clayton Wright
Fling takes place on July 6th
More curation - The Island NYE - Beyond the Pleaseuredome
NYE at the Island was an and amazing 1800 person event that took over a historical complex in Bristol city centre which included a previous fire station, police station, court rooms and prison sells. Needless to say it was quite a party. Hoochie Coochie curated shows for the main room which included the wonderful dancing sperm, world pole dance champ Bendy Kate and the Bureau of Random Acts R&B booty shaking chimps
So I am massively loving my job today. As art director for Lumiere Digitale I research and create concepts for what we make work about, what the animations and physical performance will be based on, and also how it all looks. I’m also responsible for other areas of styling such as music and costume.
Music is a big part of my life so I’m very excited about creating the sound track for the Lumiere Digitale at the Old Courts show I am interested in exploring a place where old meets new, creating classical images using modern day technology.
I love classical contemporary music as well as experimental electronica, and it’s really exciting finding a soundtrack within these genres to set the show against. Someone who has a very similar taste in music to me, but vastly more knowledgable is Ed Williams
Ed Williams is a consultant and producer working with events, music partnerships and media relations. He has worked at Red Bull Music Academy, Glastonbury Festival and Resident Advisor - the global authority on cutting edge electronic music. With a deep passion for music that reaches from classical to dance and beyond, Ed is working with Lumiere Digitale as a Music Supervisor, making recommendations that reflect visual and dramatic elements with a musical counterpart.
Ed and I are working together to create the soundtrack for the show. It’s great to be working with him, he has a great understanding of what I want to create and getting musical selections coming to my inbox is even better.
I can’t disclose too many of our choices yet, but Max Richter is likely to feature heavily!
Hoochie Coochie Circus Spectacular in 2012
What a year! We were lucky enough to take Hoochie Coochie to some really spectacular venues and work with some amazing artists. Here’s a show reel of our favourite moments. Enjoy
Curation for Just Jack
My friends at Just Jack have just had their event voted best UK club night by DJ magazine. Excellent work team Jack! Wonderful excuse for me to share some images of artists I curated for their Halloween Freak Boutique back in October.
The Just Jack team fell in love with Hoochie Coochie’s bizarre installations and asked me to curate a “pleasure dome” for their Freak Boutique.
On Friday 9th of November myself and Rowan Fae gave a lunchtime talk about our creative process for Lumiere Digitale at The Old Courts at Pervasive Media Studios.
We spoke about our backgrounds, the starting point for the project, concept development and technological challenges. You can now see a write up of the talk on the Pervasive Media Studio’s website
Lunchtime Talks are a series of informal presentations that take place every Friday. They are free to attend and take place at PM studios which is located inside the Watershed in Bristol.
Fellini’s Book of Dreams
Fellini drew his dreams, then used the imagery in his films. Then made them into a book. I want it.
I Made a Thing
I don’t normally get to make physical things as I’m a performer not a visual artist, but in Space Lab lesson at school I got to make a sculpture.
It began with an image of my face, then went into charcoal drawing, then repeated but stylised, then into collage, then the collage got repeated and stylised more in charcoals again. Then finally a sculpture was created from this image. A piece of movement was then to be created from the sculpture.
