PUBLIC BODY (the ballet), V&A Museum 2019

Choreographed by Darcy Wallace

Performed by Temitope Ajose-Cutting, Leah Marejovic, Karen Callaghan, Rosalie Pearce-Bell and Darcy Wallace

Music by Thom Sonny Green

V&A Museum 29th March 2019

Images by Camilla Greenwell, digital collages by Eve Stainton

As part of Copy/Paste V&A Late, choreographer Darcy Wallace initiates a performance in three acts set to an experimental sound score by Thom Sonny Green. This work takes its point of departure from ongoing research into Wallace’s project PUBLIC BODY (the ballet) which explores socio political connotations of the female body in performance, especially in the ballet tradition . The work will be performed by Leah Marojevic, Temitope Ajose-Cutting, Karen Callaghan, Rosalie Pearce Bell and Darcy Wallace and will deconstruct and reimagine ballet for the contemporary female body. These five women will pass in and out of the performance space, duplicating and reconstructing classical gestures that will shift in their reading over-time. A persisting loop of choreography that circulates through the individual and collective female body. 

Dirty Crusty, The Yard Theatre

Cast: Jeanine - Akiya Henry, Victor - Douggie McMeekin,

Synda - Abiona Omonua

Writer - Clare Barron

Director - Jay Miller

Choreographer - Darcy Wallace

Designer - Emma Bailey

Composer - Jonah Brody

Sound Designer / Additional Composition - Josh Grigg

Lighting Designer - Rajiv Pattani

Casting Director - Serena Hill

Assistant Director - Georgia Green

Production Manager - Dan Gosselin of estage

Company Stage Manager - Ellie Dear

Stage Manager - Shannon Gibson Durr

Deputy Stage Manager - Kirsten Buckmaster 

Dance Captain / Chaperone - Alice Laidler

Production Electrician - Lucía Sánchez Roldán

Production Sound Engineer - Oscar Thompson

Deputy Production Manager - James Dawson

Builder - Dominic Kelly