A world premiere, this live performance includes specially devised music, sound and movement by artist Nwando Ebizie.
A world premiere, this live performance includes specially devised music, sound and movement by artist Nwando Ebizie.
In this immersive and interactive show, you will be invited to inhabit the space of the historic Tilbury Cruise Terminal and experience past and future visions crafted by the artist through collective actions. In a dreamlike atmosphere, the story of the river goddess Thamesis will unfold, and you find yourself part of a ritual of collective emotions.
Full of surprises, you may hear unusual public announcements through the station’s Tannoy system, encounter a strange indoor market, join a dance with some of the performers or simply just sit back, have a drink or some food and absorb the unfolding ritual.
This performance will take place on Windrush Day and will include a commemorative moment at the very place passengers disembarked.
This new work has been produced by Nwando in collaboration with physical theatre performers from East 15 Acting School. The music for the work includes a new orchestral score recorded by musicians from Docklands Sinfonia working alongside Guildhall Young Artists.
Nwando Ebizie is a British-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist, and is a constellation point for a spectrum of multidisciplinary works that call for RADICAL change.
She challenges her audience to question their perceived realities through art personas, experimental theatre, neuroscience, music and African diasporic ritualistic dance. Carving out her own particular strand of Afrofuturism, she combines research into the neuroscience of perception (inspired by her own neurodiversity) and an obsession with science fiction with a ritualistic live art practice.
Nwando’s award-winning work has toured across the world. She has performed in Tokyo (Bonobo), Rio de Janeiro (Tempo Festival), Berlin (Chalet), Latvia (Baltais Fligelis Concert Hall) and Zurich (Blok) as well as across the UK from Home MCR to the Barbican and Southbank Centre.
'This was an event that truly engaged all the senses' Caroline Potter I Care if you Listen 'for Ebizie there is value in our neurodiversity; how it frames a reality that is shared through bodies and their inherited legacies of movement and communication. This expression and creativity are boundless gifts, in their defiance of systems and individuals who seek to render divergence into disability' Cathy Wade, The Quietus
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