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when in roam is a new work by Orphaned Limbs Collective which launches a period of research and development in 2016, supported by Creative Scotland, Holywood Trust and Hope Scott Trust. 

 

This new project interweaves movement, aerial dance, physical theatre, original musical composition and video projection to relate stories of relocation and the impact of living as a roaming being. The project presents how the performers face social challenges with humour and resilience, presenting cultural discoveries, while co-creating stories with the audience’s own notions of home. 


Given the recent discourses on migration, this project aims to stimulate a type of resonance in audiences, but through the experience of portraying migration from multiple perspectives, such as: presenting performers’/audience’s experiences of travel and creating home; people from other countries coming to work and live in the UK; and by exposing the ‘roaming being’ as a person who transits different cultures for periods of time. The project does not focus on refugees’ experiences, but emphasises the challenges and opportunities found in the encounters between cultures, which may bring about identification to the migrant experience on behalf of local and international audiences.  

 

During each residency, the installation will continue growing, collecting more memories of home and new artistic material from each location. 

  • Thania Acarón and Ross Whyte were joined in February 2016 by fellow Limbs Juan Leiba, artistic director of aerial dance company VUELA in Madrid, and the fabulous Scottish dance artist Mhairi Allan. Thanks to EPAD (Edinburgh Performing Arts Development) network, we were mentored by Ben Harrison from Grid Iron Theatre.

when in roam (2016) co-coreógrafo

Juan

Leiba

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