Belarus Free Theatre presents a two-week Festival of performances and discussions in London featuring some of our most acclaimed original productions, reinvigorated classics and the world premiere of our brand new work, Time of Women. We have spent the past decade excavating taboos on the world stage alongside launching transnational campaigns in defense of freedom…
Category: performer
collaborative, performer, voice
STEIN – Pow Ensemble
Singer/Keyboards/Improviser. A new opera by Luc Houtkamp, text from Gertrud Stein’s Tender Buttons. A mix of songs and live improvisation for singer, keys, saxophone, tuba, tap dancer and live electronics. Compositions: Luc Houtkamp Text: Gertrude Stein (Tender Buttons) Musicians: Stephanie Pan – vocals, keyboards Guy Harries – vocals, keyboards, flute, clarinet Peter Kuit – tap dance…
collaborative, performer, voice
Never The Foxes
Never The Foxes is a project by Bridget Fiske in collaboration with performer/ creators Stephanie Pan, Richard Causer, Navala Chaudhari and Joseph Lau, exploring new thematic, conceptual and choreographic ideas. Never The Foxes (a series of short scenes in development) has grown out of explorations into subjects of origin, orientation, instinct, nature, death, as well…
collaborative, maker, performer, taiko, voice
Red Forest – Belarus Free Theatre
Aisha is on the run. Forced to flee her village and give birth to her baby girl in the Sahara, she crosses the globe in search of shelter. But to find it, she must overcome the terrible cruelties of nature and man. An epic new legend for the 21st century, created from extraordinary true stories…
collaborative, performer, voice
Soselo in Siberia – Rosa Ensemble & 33 and 1/3 Collective
Performer/Singer/Composer. New interdisciplinary opera in collaboration with 33 1/3 Collective and Eefje de Visser, about borders, love and Stalin. Storyline Soselo in Siberia is a fairytale. A fairytale with an unhappy ending – if it in fact has an ending at all… A girl named Margarita meets a boy named Soselo. The fall madly in…
maker, participatory, performer, voice
Raffle Radio Game – Interactive performance for performer, public, 30 radios and instruments
collaborative, composer, performer, release, taiko
Release: Nothing aiming is a splinter – Center no Distractor
Center no Distractor’s first EP, Nothing aiming is a splinter, was recorded live, partially in front of a live audience, in December 2012. The EP was released in 2013 by inklino records. You can listen and order it through bandcamp. You can also still order the special handmade edition! Nothing aiming is a splinter by Center no…
collaborative, composer, performer, taiko
Center no Distractor
performer, solo, taiko, voice
Mixtape – for voice, autoharp, taiko, Nebulophone, Bleep Drum, Korg Monotron and looper
A Mixtape is a performance for voice, autoharp, taiko, Nebulophone and Bleep Drum (Arduino-based synths), Korg Monotron, and looper. Taking the form of a mixtape as its inspiration, this performance is a live mashup of intimate songs with dirty, gritty electronics, physicality and athleticism. Moving fluidly or jarringly, it is an unrelenting performance for the…
collaborative, performer, voice
‘What is the current that makes machinery’ – Stelios Manousakis
Performance for female voice and surround live electronics (18′) Stelios Manousakis: Composition, Programming, Live electronics Stephanie Pan: Voice Gertrude Stein: Text ‘What is the current that makes machinery’ is a cycle of short pieces for female voice and surround live electronics, written for vocalist Stephanie Pan and her unique capabilities in extended vocal techniques. The pieces…