Trilogy
Spanning three striking parts, Trilogy takes its shape as a celebratory venture into modern-day feminism. This performance triptych examines and interrogates the joys and complexities of being a young woman today, whilst driving steadfast into the future with commitment and hope. Green and her company deliver relentless, raw energy in this thrilling new art-work designed to challenge, inspire and make way for positive change.
Part One
A twenty-minute introductory performance climaxing with a large-scale, naked ensemble choreography, featuring up to 100 local women. This part facilitates the coming together of a community of local women who are invited to share in a process taking place in the week leading up to the performance. If you would like to participate in this, click her|e.
'...a politically engaged and joyous examination of what it really means to be a woman.' The Guardian
Part Two
A performative response to the 1971 feminist panel discussion Town Bloody Hall; a landmark debate on feminism and womens liberation. Featuring Norman Mailer, Jacqueline Cebellos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston and Diana Trilling.
This relic acts as a vehicle for acknowleging the reality of our present, in the here and now.
Performing alongside this event, from almost forty years ago, the company of five establish a unique space in which they begin their process of questioning the dominant, hegemonic modes of behaviour and thought, each member on a unique jourey of transformation and liberation.
'...Shudderingly powerful.' The Scotsman
Part Three
a performative presentation, introducing the interactive web-based project www.makeyourownherstory.org
The website provides a number of creative tasks which users are invited to complete, before uploading the documentation onto the site. Part Three describes a number of these, as well as presenting varied responses to these tasks.
The performance also involves an invitation, which calls on the women in the audience to participate in a daring and defiant task at the end of the piece.
Here are the instructions:
Take the words to the song Jerusalem, changing the word England to the name of whichever country you are in.
Remove your clothes and sing.
'A never-to-be forgotten moment.' The Herald
