A community performance project in Elephant and Castle for all ages and experience.
POWER was the culmination of 2 weeks of workshops at Siobhan Davies Studios, taking place in late May and early June 2023. Each performer took part in up to 8 workshops and the performance day was the first time we all came together! For many this was their first experience of performing in front of an audience.
POWER was directed by SDS Co-Artistic Director Annie Pui Ling Lok, Juan Ayala, Nathaniel Parchment and Jia-Yu Corti and performed by people with ties to the Elephant and Castle area and members of the SDS team. Together we explored the themes of power in numbers and community through movement influenced by Tai Chi, peking opera, contemporary dance, somatics, improvisation, line-dancing, latin ballroom and jive.
POWER was the second of four annual performance projects – LANGUAGE, POWER, FEAR, EMOTION. Check out what we got up to in 2022’s celebratory project LANGUAGE here.
Credits
Direction
Annie Pui Ling Lok, Juan Ayala, Jia Yu Corti and Nathaniel Parchment
Sound Design
Andreas Levisianos
Production Management
Mohammed Yousef Abuatiya, Kat Bridge and Rosa Manzi Reid
Performers
Adolfo Aguirre, Anna Chamberlain, Anthony Wallace, Ashley Simpson, Bethany Pound, Bruce Currie, Caroline Perret, Chloe-Louise Lewington, Damjana Jokity, Dorcas Wan, Dorcas Megan Yabar, Ekaterina Zharinova, Elisabeth James, Ellen Finlay, Favour Felix, Guneet Bhatia, Hattie Harding, Herbie Panduru, Iris Kilian, Isabel Hamelynck Valles, Isabella Westveer De Mul, Isobel Rogers, Jiajia Zeng, June Park, K, Katherine Waters, Kavina Pound, Kiki A., Laura D’italia, Lucia Fortune-Ely, Luz Aguirre, Maria Murray, Michael Cobb, Nancy Roberts, Natasha Mallett, Natasha Trowbridge, Nathan Hamilton, Noma Roberts, Patricia Escobar, Prince Kwakye, Rohanne Udall, Sabrinna Veronesi, Samantha James, Sebastian Aguirre, Sophie Barshall, Sophie Brassard, Tamara C., Young Choo and Yumeng Wang.
Thank you
A huge thank you to Tabitha Farley at Carers Hub, Gemma Grass-Orkin at Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organization, and Berrin Celik at Art Cafe and to all the participants who have joined us for workshops over the last two weeks: Akiko, Arianni, Cat, Dee, DJ, Frasdilla, Jui (Ray), Jyoti, Kardelen, Koyesha, Louise, Marianthi, Stefania, Sydney, Tae, Valentina, Yesenia and Zayn.