Room to breathe

Room to breathe is a new work which explores breath and breathing during and post the Covid-19 pandemic in different ways through a series of 5 imagined rooms or movements:

1. The rhythm of the breath.
2. Breathing out.
3. Fear, hope & breathing.
4. The well-tempered breath.
5. Take a deep breath.

The work is like a tightly coiled spring, very tense and strained at the start and during the first few movements, then slowly releasing that tension over the duration of the hour-long piece. Each room is scored for a different combination of digital and acoustic instruments, voice and recorded tracks. The 5 rooms take the audience through the pandemic as a visceral lived experience in words, sound and music. Text is illuminated at various points through captioning and BSL.