Bakkus - Earthfall / Theatre Chorea
Soundtrack for Earthfall collaboration with Theatre Chorea (Poland)
Directed by Jessica Cohen & Jim Ennis
Original choral works by Maciej Rychly
Music and Sound Design Roger Mills and Paul Wigens
2006
Earthfall’s third collaboration with Poland’s Chorea. The work explored fanaticism, cultism and religious fervour drawn from Euripides’ The Bacchae.
Bakkus was set in a nightclub cellar and used Earthfall’s heady blend of film, original music, text, imagery and powerful physical movement combined with Chorea’s extraordinary choral work derived from traditional and ancient musical sources. The music was composed by Paul Wigens and Roger Mills and mixed "New Orleans" style jazz fused with Elina Toneva’s traditional Bulgarian songs.
The performance delivered an intense, powerful and vivid effect on the senses as Earthfall’s dynamic choreography, film and anarchic movement infused the choir as it moved through the space.
Written and Performed by Gerald Tyler
Music written and composed by Limbo
Big Hands is a collaboration between playwright, performer and raconteur Gerald Tyler and Limbo. It's a story of Mr. Lewis, a private investigator who is engaged by a mysterious client to track down her one and only love. The absent love transpires to be the last remaining Angel still living on earth. Before long Mr. Lewis and the Angel become friends, and the client is discovered to be something other than the pining spouse she claims.
It is a mulit media theatre-noir performance, combining live music by Limbo and real time and pre-recorded film. It premiered in Cardiff UK at the end of September 2007.
Directed by Jessica Cohen & Jim Ennis
Music and Sound Design by Roger Mills
Inspired by Jamie O’Neill’s award-winning novel 'At Swim Two Boys', it is a story of the developing love between two teenage boys against the backdrop of the 1916 "Easter Up Rising" in Ireland. A tender and visually engaging production performed in a set that gradually fills with water, featuring a live music score and breathtaking choreography.
I can't stand up for falling down - Earthfall
Directed by Jessica Cohen & Jim Ennis
Music by Roger Mills & John Wygens
2003
A dancer, romancer, refugee, soldier, singerstand-up, stuntman, builder and bomber collide in an urban vision where blood meets sweat, tears and humour. 'I Can't Stand up for Falling Down' is a fast, furious and fervent performance of extreme dance, film, live music, DJ and stand-up as six characters go in search of a new life and end up a family of outcasts in the remains of a house. High energy dance and physical theatre interacting with camera's, projections, film and music.
Directed by Jessica Cohen & Jim Ennis
Music by Roger Mills, Paul Wigens and John Wygens
2001
ROCOCO BLOOD fuses superb radical dance with exceptional live music and stunning visual imagery in a dynamic dance theatre work. Memories of first fights and first love are unmasked as extreme dance and live music. Exposing the tyrannies within human relationships and the telling of the personal histories and tensions in a fusion of tenderness, violence, pathos and humour.
Written and Performed by Circomedia
Music and Sound Design by Roger Mills
1999
Devised by renown UK theatre / circus academy Circomedia with direction from Circus Oz. 'Into The Deep' was performed on Bristol's harbourside and featured high risk stage performances set to a score of live and pre-composed music and sound design.
"Dazzling skill, energy, commitment and vision... a spectacle with attitude and sublime soundtrack".
Total Theatre
Invisible Bullets - Blast Theory
Written and Performed by Blast
Theory
Music by Statik Sound System
1994
Invisible Bullets is an installation/performance first performed in Hoxton, London in July 1994, as part of "Fete Worse Than Death". Commissioned by Joshua Compston of Factual Nonsense, the work was performed for two days alongside Leigh Bowery's Minty and The Raincoats and many others.
Examining media obsession with crime reconstructions; it is a time based work lasting over ten hours, repeatedly re-enacting murders, while each time changing the method of presentation: sometimes performed casually in balaclavas, at other times psychotically in underwear.
Music and Sound Design by Statik Sound System (Roger Mills, Pete Webb, Andy Jenks, Keith Bailey and Rob Conn).
Written and Performed by Blast
Theory
Music by Statik Sound System
1994
Stampede is a promenade piece looking at how crowds react during rioting. At what point are you prepared to declare yourself publicly? What would make you take to the streets? Performed in theatres and nightclubs, Stampede included excerpts from a secret police manual about riot control, Terminator (film) and interviews with the six performers about loss of control. A system of pressure pads allowed the audience to trigger recordings of different mind control techniques. A live video projection link provided surveillance of different areas of the space which, at times, was the only way to see the performance.
Music and Sound Design by Statik Sound System (Roger Mills, Keith Bailey, Rob Conn, Andy Jenks and Pete Webb)