A Tramway and The Place Co-Commission:
LOUISE AHL
(Scotland/UK)
SKUNK WITHOUT K IS SUN
FRI 20 & SAT 21 OCTOBER 2023 19:00 - 20:15
£15 - £10 (Concessions)
Tramway (Directions)
Content note: Performance contains scent
ACCESS: TT | AD | BSL (Sat 21st) (Festival Access Page).
Contains integrated Audio Description and the show on 21st October will be British Sign Language Interpreted. A Touch Tour is available at 17:30 on each performance day, email Molly to reserve a place. Sighted guides will be stationed throughout the building on Saturday 21st and can assist with navigating the building and accessing audio description and touch tours.
Skunk without k is Sun is an experimental three act solo opera, working with audio description as operatic sung material. Bespoke environmental scents will transform during the piece and exist as another layer of narration. The piece explores the human tendency to describe and name its presence in order to exist. It is a world where language shapes a reality of constant transformation whilst embracing a non-human expression. It zooms out on the macro-perspective of an earth that transforms beyond human presence and into the micro-perspective of the traces we’re leaving behind.
Act 1 presents the atmosphere, design and the performer of the work. The colours are intoxicating. Green without blue is yellow. A thunder cloud hovers.
Act 2 presents human behaviour in all its forms. It is a tragicomical act.
Act 3. The Earth collapses. Fires rage. Roses burn. A new romance is born.
Louise Ahl is a UK based artist, choreographer and performer originally from Sweden, making experimental and choreographic performance and installation work. She creates both solo and collaborative multi-art-form pieces using movement, vocals, writing and sound. The work is often centralised around the relationship between the physical and metaphysical, exploring how we experience reality and make meaning of this world. Louise’s work has shown across the UK and internationally: Southbank Centre, BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art, Nottdance Festival, Take Me Somewhere Festival, The Yard, Submerge Festival, Tramway, Glasgow International and Experimentica Festival, Live Collision, Tanztage Berlin, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church and Critical Path.
Concept, Choreography & Performance: Louise Ahl
Written by: Louise Ahl, Jo Hellier
Composer: Yas Clarke
Producer: Michael Kitchin
Set & Costume Designer: Anette Gellein
Scent Designer: Clara Weale
Lighting Designer: Joshie Harriette
Production Manager: Nia Wood
Lead Audio Description Consultants: Quiplash
Additional Audio Description Consultant: Juliana Capes
Access Consultants: Maria Oshodi, Victoria Oruwari
Choreographic Support: Eve Stainton
Access Support Worker: Mable Cable
Artist Placement: Noa Ferder
Co-commissioned by Tramway and The Place. Supported by Take Me Somewhere, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Battersea Arts Centre, The Work Room, South East Dance, Dance Base and O. Festival for Opera. Music. Theatre. Funded by Jerwood Live Work Fund, Foundation Scotland from the Cockaigne Fund and the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Photos: Julia Bauer
