Geraldine Pilgrim's 'TOYNBEE'
Date uploaded: October 30, 2013
10th - 15th December 2013
TOYNBEE
Geraldine Pilgrim
Toynbee Studios
28 Commercial Street E1 6AB
£12 (concessions available)
If you have any mobility issues please ring up to book: 020 7650 2350
If you would like to participate in TOYNBEE please click here to read the participants call out.
Having created many magical projects in amazing sites across the country over the past 10 years, Geraldine at last comes to Artsadmin's home at Toynbee Studios to work on an new site-specific promenade performance.
Presented during Spitalfields Winter Festival in December, TOYNBEE will be an evocative journey around two historic buildings, celebrating the social, political and artistic significance of Toynbee Hall and Studios.
Not only is “the past a foreign country…” but so is the future. These different worlds are united within the two buildings as TOYNBEE delivers the past to the present and the future to the past, from the scale of an envelope to that of a container.
Within a landscape of live music, image and performance, unexpected fragments of the past contained within its walls wait to be revealed. Traces of lives are glimpsed out of windows, at the end of corridors and the turn of a stair, whilst footsteps echo to the sound of the different voices of the contemporary East End.
'Geraldine Pilgrim is a visual magician who has been creating site sympathetic shows long before such work became fashionable…'
Lyn Gardner
Limited audience capacity. Book your journey early to avoid disappointment.
Click here for more information about TOYNBEE.
Click here for more information about Geraldine Pilgrim.
An Artsadmin commission produced in partnership with Spitalfields Music and Toynbee Hall. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund and using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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