8pm Friday 17 March 2023, Summerhall, Edinburgh
Please note: tickets are now sold out but we are streaming free online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKHfah9c2sQArt is only the dream of a designated comfort break. Parody is the pawn of power. Creativity is an advertising space. Breath is a privilege and a luxury. The world is aflame… All hail discordia! Performance cabaret ANATOMY return to Summerhall for their first live show in three years, bringing a mixture of live-art shenanigans and theatrical tomfoolery.
Since our last show, the world has been a fever dream. New disciplines and practices have emerged and flourished in bedrooms and make-shift studios underneath work-from-home desks. We have scoured for these and will present a selection of fearless new performances, tributes to Discordia and golden apples.
Featuring: Clare Adam & Lesley Howard; Mystika Glamoor; Shawn Nayar & Ellie Home; Lydia Newman; Lindsay Oliver & Fiona Oliver-Larkin; and Markee de Saw.
With chaos and camraderie from your hosts, Ali Maloney and Harry Josephine Giles
This event will also be livestreamed.
Masks will be provided and mask-wearing is encouraged.
Anatomy is supported by Summerhall.
The Acts
It’s a Must Clare Adam & Lesley Howard
Exploring what it’s like when dainty femininity is met with strength. Through their movement vocabulary, Clare and Lesley share their journey as they fight for their place in a society not built for them. Through the use of release-based movement and improvisation, they want to invite you on this journey with them. Finding power in friendship & hard work to overcome the challenges life throws at them.
Between Revolutions Mystika Glamoor
Mystika Glamoor returns with her interpretation of Larry Mitchell’s work with her show BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS, a study in how minorities thrive under oppression through art, solidarity, and radical joy.
Idols of Perversity Shawn Nayar & Ellie Home
The Freaks evoke the grotesque through provocative performances that combine original music pieces with immersive digital artworks and interactive props. On stage they tell stories of degradation and depravity with a twist; outfits are smeared, props are warped, and performances culminate in an orgy of contorted bodies. This creative soup spills into the crowd as the Freaks tease their audience with slimy condoms, sloppy foods and rotten seaweed. They have tormented Edinburgh audiences at the first Fruit Salad Cabaret, Spare Rib clubnight, and Embassy Gallery’s 2022 Anualle.
The Renovation Lydia Newman
It’s done now, I’m not blaming you, I was there too. I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have brought that up. It’s ok, it’s all ok, let’s have a shower, make it better… Squinty eyeballs, exhale, vapour responds to our command and scurries out of the way in golden ratios. Rainbow steam hides whilst our fingers seek. Water droplets forming frosted glass, it’s all softer. I need to be more gentle. Brown soap studied feelings coil down the drain. Shake… Shake… Shake… Fresh… Ready … Readier
The renovation is a looped narrative-driven installation piece, using the mediums of audio, structural form, light and movement to communicate the inner workings of the mind of the artist as she navigates the end of a relationship, depression and self-inflicted contortion that is preventing her from being herself.
AVATA5985: The Human Avatar Lindsay Oliver & Fiona Oliver-Larkin
AVATA5985 is the world’s first human avatar, performing live for the first time ever. Fiona Oliver-Larkin, a physical-theatre maker, acts as Lindsay’s human avatar, allowing Lindsay to perform live on stage even though she cannot leave her bed. In a spoken word performance the mother daughter duo explore issues of disability, ableism, identity, and death.
lindsayoliver.scot / www.fionaoliverlarkin.com
Markee de Saw Live Markee de Saw
‘Markee de Saw Live’ is a livestream event which is performed live for a livestream. Catch Markee on the sound waves of vocal folds and musical saws in the curves of a stream.
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