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Helen Chadwick

HELEN CHADWICK

  
Nationality:    British
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Helen Chadwick's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Helen Chadwick's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Dalston Songs         Dancing In My Mother's Arms         Dream Through Your Singing Mouth         Family Matters         Not the Love I Was Expecting         Pax Pace Pax Paix Peace         Song In My Foot, A         Songs from the Hidden Continent         War Correspondents         White Suit         Woman of Thirteen &

Dalston Songs

Synopsis:
A powerful, funny and touching piece of song theatre, Dalston Songs is a unique blend of music and choreography about memories of home and what home means. Performance creator and self-taught composer Helen Chadwick was inspired by the stories and memories of people in her local community in Dalston, East London, where many different cultures co-exist. Stories emerged through interviews with her neighbours and Dalston residents. For some home meant life in a new country, escape from a war zone or arrival from a destroyed homeland, for others the tales were more domestic. These stories became the basis for lyrics used alongside powerful texts by Serbian, Argentinean, Palestinian, and Turkish poets.

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1st Produced:
Latitude Festival, Henham Park in Suffolk    2009

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Genre:
urban music theatre

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Dancing In My Mother's Arms

Synopsis:
Dancing in My Mothers Arms is a solo performance of songs accompanied by a pack of cards and a pair of hands, by something bowed and the smallest dance, by a drum and a heartbeat. The show is threaded with a tribute, a story and a toast. Helen has made five solo albums, and composes for theatre, radio and opera. Her solo and group song/theatre/story performances tour Australia, the Americas, and Europe

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Genre:
song theatre

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Dream Through Your Singing Mouth

Synopsis:
e there at the beginning! Opening performances of this song theatre creator's new solo show. Did I say solo? Be prepared to sing!

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Genre:
song theatre

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Family Matters

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Not the Love I Was Expecting

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The love poetry of Turkey, Persia, Russia, England, France, Spain and Chile provide the lyrics for a cycle of songs threaded with unexpected, hilarious and often disastrous love stories. This heart warming concert includes Chadwick's georgous harmony songs and their unique talent for bringing poetry to life alongside humour and playfulness.

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Pax Pace Pax Paix Peace

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Commissioned for Trafalgar Square this performance is inspired by those who work for peace. It includes lyrics by Aung San Suu Kyi and Pablo Neruda.

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Song In My Foot, A

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A celebration of the vibrancy of South America. the performance draws on poetry and musical ideas from Helen's tours in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia. This uplifting a cappella performance by four singers includes songs with foot patterns, cross rhythms and body percussion. Influenced by the Quechua women's dances in Bolivia, by the patterns of pan pipes, and by Brazilian children's clapping games. The songs are interlaced with wild and delicious stories from these singing journeys.

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Songs from the Hidden Continent

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Toasts and songs. Since the break up of the Soviet Union Helen has toured and done song research in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, the Ukraine and Russia. Songs out of the Hidden Continent is inspired by these travels. The songs include examples of magnificent traditional songs as well as Helen's harmony songs, inspired by a Russian text, a Georgian dance or a Ukrainian harmony. The songs are woven together with traditional toasts and pancake making.

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Genre:
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War Correspondents

Synopsis:
Whilst reporting the outbreak of war, a journalist is held at gunpoint, caught in the no-man's land between two nations. War Correspondents is the second song theatre performance created by composer Helen Chadwick and choreographer and co-founder of Frantic Assembly, Steven Hoggett, (Oliver award winner forBlack Watch) following the success of Dalston Songs commissioned by the Royal Opera House. Testimony, singing and choreography fuse into a multi-disciplined performance. Stories and life changing experiences of war journalists create a song cycle performance threaded with extracts of the interviews to bring to life the horror, pain, courage and the strength of friendship - the bearable and the worst of war. Helen and Designer Miriam Nabarro have interviewed war correspondents covering Iraq, Chechnya, Georgia, Afghanistan, Liberia and Bosnia, including Giuliana Sgrena who was taken hostage in Fallujah, Iraq, and subsequently shot at by the US army.

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Helen Chadwick Song Theatre / Dramatic Solutions

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Genre:
song theatre

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White Suit

Synopsis:
WHITE SUIT combines close harmony singing with larger than life physical performance to tell the story of a landmine survivor in a highly stylized song- theatre performance which is enjoyed by all ages. Commissioned by Without Walls and toured to outdoor festivals in the UK in 2012 and 2013. Running time 23 minutes.

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outdoor festivals, UK    2012

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Woman of Thirteen &

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