Scratch It! on 'Women, Health and Well Being'

YoPro Presents SCRATCH IT! on Women, Health, and Well-Being, as part of Rich Mix Takeover Festival 2017.

Come and discover innovative pieces from up-and-coming artists.

The basis of a Scratch is about sharing a piece of work with the public at an early stage of its development with the chance to get constructive feedback. The four performances selected by YoPro Collective for this Scratch deal with the theme of ‘Women, Health and Well-being’.

SCRATCH IT! is also a time where artists and audiences share their concerns on issues that matter, both influencing and being influenced by each other’s view.

Whether you are a novice or a theatre-lover, passionate about the theme or simply curious to discover new works, your feedback counts as much as anyone else's.

This event is free of charge but booking is advised

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Programme:

Bridget Lappin, SHRINK

SHRINK explores space from the perspective of a woman’s body, commenting on expectations for women to take up less space and unpicking the complexities of this issue within a body in real-time.
Drawing on autobiographical and theoretical research, the performer offers an intimate journey through the psyche and struggle many women experience trying to embody unattainable expectations of self.

"Lappin fills the entire place with her perfume ... seducing us with her powerful manifesto of the female existence." - Review by Asteropi Tia Chatzinikola of Who's Afraid of a Pussy Cat? (2017)​

"The dance equivalent of a rhetorical question..." - Review by Ka Bradley of The Art of Exposure (2016)

http://lappinbridge.wixsite.com/bridgetlappin

Amy Poole, Pebble

Amy Poole creates Live Art Meditations. Exploring self-reflection and mental well-being through experiences and installations. She focuses on creating opportunities to be calm, to pause and think.

Pebble is an audio-installation, set on a beach and in the participants own imagination. The piece explores the tactile and sensory elements of this seaside landscape drawing on Amy’s personal experiences there, ranging from early childhood to the present.
This work aims to connect remotely with this natural environment as a mindful visualisation, creating an opportunity for escape, to question and explore the artists mind alongside your own response.

To participate in this artwork you will need to bring a set of headphones and a device that connects to the internet. Wifi will be accessible.

Mark Chung Kit, Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is a multi-media piece that explores how death and loss can affect the mental well-being of loved ones and how they can carry on.
The performance will be based on two poems Mark wrote in response to the passing of his grandma. It will rely on the use of movement and visual metaphors to tie a thread between ideas of death, life, memories and butterflies to extend and illuminate aspects of the grieving process. Death is inevitable but something that we all must come to terms with in our own ways. Through his own personal journey with loss, Mark hopes that the audience will also be able to contemplate their own.

Website: https://markchungkit.wixsite.com/website

Gilda Lockheart, Sins of the Mother:

The piece explores the links between bipolar disorder, motherhood, childhood trauma and alcohol abuse.
Gilda's mother is bipolar, an alcoholic and abusive. Gilda yearns for children of my own, but she fears that her own bipolar disorder will make her a bad mother.
She relives moments from her childhood through live art actions, and will ask audience members into the space to share them with her. They may help her knead dough, as they used to bake together; sew a toy, as they used to do together. She will 'drown' in alcohol in an attempt to consume the amount that she drank most nights, and she will drink milk and breastfeed dolls to explore her yearning for her own children. This piece is an attempt to find differences between her and her mother, to process her trauma - a constant source of depression - and to perhaps forgive her.

http://gildalockheart.weebly.com/

http://braincocaine.weebly.com/

After SCRATCH IT!, why not immerse yourself in 'The Garden: After the Bite?' hosted by our friends from The Performance Lab in the room next door.

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YoPro Collective is a group of independent creative producers who work together on curating and producing events that nurture young talents and engage audiences on social and political issues. They are all alumni from Battersea Arts Centre’s programme for Young Producers 2016 & 2017.

https://www.yoprocollective.com/