“Dummy Lab” For Base-Berlin and Chamaeleon Theatre
(Berlin Feb 2015- August 2015)
Cellist (loop station soloist) and composer
“Faites La Place” for Trafic de Styles (Contemporary Hip hop) Jan – Nov 2014
(Premier Paris, November 2014)
Musical Director/Composer/Recording artist: Piano, cello, electronica, orchestration
– “Fusing contemporary classical with trip-hop and hip hop elements. The violoncelle meets sound scape and the piano plays the tune of the poetic clown.”
“ Soiling Eve” for choreographer Chris Rudd (New York) with The Peter London Global Dance Theatre (June 2014)
Composer/cellist
”Enveloppes Timbrées” for Trafic de Styles (Paris) March -December 2012
Musical Director/Composer/Recording artist: Piano, cello, electronica
– Contemporary hip-hop which explores the gestural language of being trapped in our skin.
“Dummy the Show” (Circus) for BASE BERLIN (Berlin) 2010- 2012
GOP Cabaret (Munich, Munster, Bad Oeynhausen, Essen, Hannover)
Solo Performance Cellist – live loop station and live on top of playback, composer
– A central character who uses music to bring soul to lifeless bodies. Collaborating with Bungee straps, Tissu, Flexible pole, foot juggling, handstands, acrobatic crutches and puppet aerial.
“Urbanatix – Spinning around” (Bochum, Germany) 2010
– Central character Cellist
THE BOB COLLECTIVE
An Interdisciplinary collaborative (live music, dance, contemporary circus and live visual arts)
Founder/ performance musician- loop station, live over playback/vocalist/composer/
theatre – movement based instrumentalist, keyboardist, cellist
– Collaboration with aerial straps, dance, movement as a musician, crutches, handstands, tissue and other aerial.
“In Search of Light”
2014 Bagni Di Lucca Arts Festival
2013 Blaue Kei Theatre, Veghel, Netherlands
2010 Edinburgh Fringe festival
2010 Villa San Rocco, Tuscany, Italy : creative research residency
“Bob” August 2012 (Potsdam Fabrik, Germany)
Perfomance and creation as Artists-In-Residence
“Lines” Oct – Dec 2010 (Potsdam Fabrik/Base-Berlin)
Performance and creation of “Lines” as Artists-in Residence
“La chanson de Tessa” 2011 (Paris) – commissioned composition for choreographer Matthieu Pomarel
“Benabbio”
for solo cello and aerial straps created with James Kingsford-Smith 2010-11 (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Eindhoven International Wintercircus , Park Theatre.
“The Glass Menagerie”
for solo cello and crutches-dance created with James Kingsford-Smith July 2010
Presented at Micradanses, Paris
Recording Artist
Cello for Electro producer Reecode (Berlin)
Cello for trip-hop producer Jacob Cartwright (Australia/Italy)
With Bicycle I Ride Documentary OST 2014, (Mongolia/United Kingdom); cello
Lunik Documentary OST (Italy ) 2010; cello
Curse Ov Dialect – experimental hip-hop – gigs and recording
Kind Lions – experimental funk/ electronic, improvised strings
Eliza Davidson – original, session artist
Clann Zu – Strings, session artist
North Mebourne Dance House – strings, session artist
Sound and Website links
Video Links
Cello demo : http://vimeo.com/74001801
Performances with circus
– aerial hoop: https://vimeo.com/39854306
– straps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAFoxOqnsm8
– crutches and dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCHhqmb8a9E
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