How to create a show with limited resources.
Tim Boulton ( a trustee at the time) suggested St Johns Hall as a venue ( The Acorn was being made more accessible) and offered Penzance Youth String Orchestra for us to work with.
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Our timetables didn't join up but we managed a good show, combining it all in dress rehearsal.
Mind the Gap
was dedicated to and named in memory Eileen Herzberg who died unexpectedly in India December 2007.
The second half of the show was called Phosphoresence.
Lisa Mortensen worked with company members to create sculptures, Phil Jacobs created theatre and Terri Stevens brought elements of performance art to the stage, intertwined with film, poetry, humour, strong music and images with colourful poignant characters.
Shared Spaces was devised originally as a platform for Shallal dancer Zoe Wilton, to give her further opportunities.
Comprised of three artists spontaneously sharing their art forms:
Zoe Wilton - improvised dance
Andrew Brown - improvising cellist
Victoria Field - Poet in residence at Truro Cathedral -Many Waters – Poems from Ten Months at Truro Cathedral fal, November 2006 https://thepoetrypractice.co.uk/home/about/
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Our first Arts Council funded show with film and lighting and ...the work was finally framed!
Screen and shadows, live music, song, voices, film and projection, it was a full bodied show and a wonderful experience for everyone, with fabulous photos by Steve Tanner.
Lighting by Lucy Gaskell.
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Shoreline was performed at The Acorn Theatre, Artistic director Jo Willis and Theatre Director Phil Jacobs. Some hilarious monologues with Suzanne Leggett, who went on to perform at The Comedy Club, London, and Shallal Dance Theatre's quirky mixture of dance, theatre image and playing with film.
"I remember some wonderful bespoke borrowed beaded hats and a beach scene with incoming tide"
Swanbake was one of our first shows when we restarted, returning to our old home venue the Acorn, which we now used as a rehearsal space as well. Phil Jacobs was our new theatre director and brought a playful humourous character element to it all.
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Jo Willis recalls it as, "One of my favourite shows and sadly one of the least recorded."
Face to Face by Shallal Dance Theatre was a show with confident, sophisticated yet simple improvisations, gentle humour and sensitivity, and a wonderful colourful array of performers.
Having always made compilation shows, we challenged ourselves to more and asked composer Roger Pinsent to write music for a show titled Midnight Feast.
The dancers created characters that travelled through the piece, it was colourful, quirky, tender and fun with props and costume by Helen Thomson and team,
and two new powerful dances with more contact were added as new work at the end as Rory Mcdermott joined us and brought his subtlety and skill to share.
Our first show was Street Celebration - yet to find our old poster.
Sea Saw was the second, it was performed at the Acorn Theatre, Penzance and we were invited back to show it again to a full house! We became around this time, a work placement for students from the John Daniel Centre and met weekly on Fridays at St Peter's Church Hall, Newlyn.
The poster is a computer image and shows founding dancers Tim Churchman and Zoe Wilton. Zoe is now 50, she and Jo Willis 58 are the last founding members of Shallal.