WHEN YOU LIGHT A CANDLE, YOU ALSO CAST A SHADOW

PETER SCOTT GALLERY, LANCASTER ARTS

4th November 2021

When You Light A Candle, You Also Cast A Shadow

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Choreographer Bettina Carpi

 

Composer Gary Lloyd

 

Prose Poetry Mary Talbot

 

Dancers

Daisy Belle Howell

Paige Lyon

Lauren Tucker

 

String Quintet

Violin Gemma Bass

Violin Lily Whitehurst

Viola Alice Billen

Cello Lucy Arch

Double Bass Mhairi Simpson

 

Drummers “on tape”

Lewis Hall-Benning

Sam Pritchard

 

Poetry Readers “on tape”

Zoe Smith

Claire Henderson Davies

Cerian Emma Young

Isabelle Mohan

Janice Fryett

 

 

Technical Support

Konrad Watson

 

Lighting Design

Dave Forrest

When You Light A Candle, You Also Cast A Shadow

 

 

Hybrid dance theatre with live music

by Company Carpi

 

 

Created by choreographer Bettina Carpi and composer Gary Lloyd

 

Featuring a specially commissioned poetry cycle

by Costa Award winning writer Mary Talbot

 

Inspired by natural forces, the work is as much a celebration of nature and its resilience as it is a call to awareness about the dangerous state of our climate, our habitat and our planet.

 

The title of the piece is inspired by a quote from the novel

A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

 

 

 

When You Light a Candle... is the first commission of its kind,

and was created in partnership with:

Dance Consortia North West

Lancaster Arts & Culture Warrington

 

With generous additional support from:

Arts Council England, Swiss Cultural Fund UK, Cheshire Dance The Arts Centre Edge Hill University 

 

 

First performances:

Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster Arts : 4th November 2021

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery : 12th March 2022

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Company Carpi 2021

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