The Trembling Forest

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Copeland Gallery - April 2025

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'The Trembling Forest', a live art ballet created by emilyn claid, which will premiere at Future Ritual's festival in Peckham in April 2025.

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The work draws on the spontaneous physicality of live art and the scenic, choreographic structures of balletic traditions. Encounters between a company - Adrienne Ming, Azara, Eve Stainton, Martin O'Brien and Orrow Bell - are staged amidst a forest of queer people, each painted with clay, who crack, shiver, tremble and decay.

 

The Trembling Forest evokes a macabre, surreal, grotesque and beautiful world, where life force and death drive intertwine. 

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Design by Shanti Freed, sound design by Lottie Poulet and technical design by Rachel Shipp.

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