Performer at Toynbee project by Geraldine Pilgrim, as part of Siptalfields Winter Music Festival, presented at Toynbee Studios and Toynbee Hall, London.
2013
More information about this project can be found at the Artsadmin website, here.
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
Photo Credits: Sheila Burnett
Note: Unfortunately, due to health reasons, I wasn't performing in the day the photographer came around to document the project. So, there is no documentation from my scene. I was performing as the 'girl of the matches', which was historically related to the Bryant and May match girls' strike of 1888.
2013
More information about this project can be found at the Artsadmin website, here.
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
Photo Credits: Sheila Burnett
Note: Unfortunately, due to health reasons, I wasn't performing in the day the photographer came around to document the project. So, there is no documentation from my scene. I was performing as the 'girl of the matches', which was historically related to the Bryant and May match girls' strike of 1888.
