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Rosana Cade & Ivor MacAskill are renowned queer live artists based in Glasgow, creating and performing their unique works nationally and internationally in a wide range of contexts. In this interview they chat to Sam about their latest project which takes inspiration from the story of Pinocchio from a queer trans perspective. It shifts between fantasy and authenticity in response to Ivor's gender transition. The performance is part of LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) 2022 and premieres on June 29th at the Battersea Arts Centre. Find out more about LIFT - http://www.liftfestival.com
Krishna Istha and I discuss their stand-up comedy show about trans experience, Beast, directed by Zoë Coombs Marr. Krishna is a London-based performer, writer, live artist, and theatre maker whose work explores gender politics and queer culture. They created performance persona Bambi Sexsmith during Duckie’s Homosexualist Summer School, trained with GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN and comedian Hannah Gadsby, and performed in Rosana Cade’s Walking:Holding, Laura Bridgeman’s The Butch Monologues, and Wild Bore by Zoë Coombs Marr, Ursula Martinez, and Adrienne Truscott. Krishna and I discuss Beast’s infusion of comedy with live art; its costuming, audiences, scenography, and making process; and topics from racism to QTIPOC cabaret, mentoring, visibility, and touring while trans.
Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill joined me in April 2019 to discuss their collaboratively devised show MOOT MOOT, which appears in the 2019 Showcases of Made in Scotland and the British Council at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In the absurd parallel universe of MOOT MOOT, Cade and MacAskill play doppelganger radio talk show hosts Barry and Barry, struggling to communicate meaningfully while nevertheless sustaining humour, playfulness, fondness, and the suggestions of queer love. We talk about what motivated the work, its relationship to an era of opinions, and its engagement with techniques of collaboration, physical theatre, costuming, improvisation, and characterization.
This week Emma is talking with Rosana Cade (her first returning guest - see season 1 "SAFETY MAP"). Emma and Rosana talk about the third show in the NOUIYAR project - e g g / b o x, which took place inside a giant cardboard box. They also talk about having a partner who transitions, about public perceptions and (as it was recorded in December 2018) about Christmas and Climate Change! This season of the podcast is related to the release of None of Us is Yet a Robot the book! (Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition) It comes out on June 25th 2019 and you can pre-order copies here: oberonbooks.com ‘Draws on a vital history of trans performance – an emerging canon that may no longer be ignored.’ – Morgan M Page, from her foreword If you would like to attend the book launch, tickets are available here: eventbrite.co.uk You can find more about Rosana here www.rosanacade.co.uk and to support Emma's patreon follow this link: www.patreon.com/emmafrankland Huge thanks to Disparition for the music, you can find more of his beautiful work here:www.disparition.info Tune in next week to see if Emma records a BONUS Canadian episode or for a conversation with Ivor MacAskill about Emma's much loved show 'Rituals for Change'. xxx
Jen Harvie talks with performance makers Nic Green and Rosana Cade about Cock and Bull, created with Laura Bradshaw for the eve of the 2015 UK General Election and touring in spring 2017 including to London’s Southbank, 25-30 April. We discuss how the show sampled rhetorical language and gestures from the 2014 Conservative Party Conference, then broke them down in a precisely scored and choreographed exorcism towards a hoped-for new future. We talk about politics, inequality, formalism, bodies, music, anger, people, work, task-based performance, and how to make performance without funding, and with passion.
Episode one of the Live Art UK podcast is about festivals: Live Art festivals, Live Art within festivals, and how artist-led initiatives are reshaping festival economics. In it, we talk to Andy Field, Co-Director of Forest Fringe, on ten years as a radical alternative to the Edinburgh milieu; Brian Lobel, founder of The Sick Of The Fringe, on making creative links within a broader programme; Lois Keidan, Co-Director of the Live Art Development Agency, on how performance festivals have grown and multiplied over 30+ years; Clive Lyttle, Director of Certain Blacks, on festivals’ ability to showcase underrepresented artists and artforms; Aaron Wright, Artistic Director of Fierce, on the potential of Live Art to bridge the underground and mainstream; and Rosana Cade, Co-Director of Buzzcut, on their evolving relationship with the artistic community in Glasgow. Image: In Between Time 13 (Oliver Rudkin)
In this episode, Emma is again in Brighton, talking with performance maker Rosana Cade about identity and difference. About holding hands in public space; performances in public space; fear in public space and the Brighton Safety Map Project. Also about weird hugs and kissing your cousins. We were invited to record this episode by Pink Fringe in conjunction with The Safety Map, a project they were facilitating across the recent bank holiday weekend at the Marlborough Theatre. It was an invitation for people to share experiences of anti-social behaviour in Brighton as well as spaces where they feel welcomed and celebrated. Rosana says ”I am a performance maker based in Glasgow. Whilst the form of my performance work varies, and emerges in relation to the specific process or context I am engaging with, it is firmly rooted in a queer discourse and straddles live art and activism. My performances happen in various contexts including theatres, public spaces, as well as club and cabaret settings. I was part of the Spill National Showcase in 2013, a National Theatre of Scotland ‘Auteur’ in 2014 and I am an Artsadmin artist bursary recipient 2014/15. My work has been shown extensively across the UK with over twenty organisations including the National Theatre in London, at Summerhall as part of the Made in Scotland Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014, Contact Theatre – Manchester, the Arches in Glasgow, Forest Fringe, Battersea Arts Centre, and at international venues including Teatro Maria Matos in Lisbon, Frascati in Amsterdam and Kwai Fong Theatre in Hong Kong. I also collaborate regularly with my partner Eilidh MacAskill in our live art riot girl boi band, Double Pussy Clit Fu*k to create club and cabaret performances. And I am co-founder of //BUZZCUT// festival.” You can find links below or follow the Safety Map Project online at #safetymap and you can follow Rosana at @RosanaCade And you can keep up to date with Emma's movements through the None of Us is Yet a Robot project at www.notyetarobot.co.uk or @elbfrankland on twitter. Opening music was by Kraftwerk and Closing music by Señor Coconut y Su Conjuto Some things we mentioned in the conversation were: The Safety Map - https://www.facebook.com/events/1780845748818488/ The Marlborough, Brighton - http://www.marlboroughtheatre.org.uk Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs - http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html Walking / Holding - https://rosanacadedotcom.wordpress.com Judith Butler - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler Casey Plett - http://topsidepress.com/titles/a-safe-girl-to-love/ Rituals for Change at the Yard Theatre (10 - 14 May) - http://notyetarobot.co.uk/portfolio-item/rituals-for-change/ Advice about reporting hate crime - https://www.gov.uk/report-hate-crime LGBT Support Gendered Intelligence: http://genderedintelligence.co.uk Stonewall: http://www.stonewall.org.uk Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard - http://switchboard.org.uk See you next time. xxx
Discussions between Laurie Brown & Rosana Cade around the theme of Confessions (featuring music by Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Undertones)
Discussions between Laurie Brown & Rosana Cade around the theme of Confessions (featuring music by Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Undertones)