Theatre
Stroke Odysseys
Stroke survivors take to the stage in a daring movement and song project specially choreographed by Ben Duke
Choreographer Ben Duke, composer Orlando Gough, health professionals and survivors of traumatic brain injury have collaborated on this poignant movement and song production that asks who we become when we lose a part of ourselves.
Some of the most profound questions that preoccupy survivors of stroke and other traumatic brain injuries touch on hopes of regaining the lost faculties that are core to their identity, including speech, song, movement and dance. In Stroke Odysseys, stroke survivors perform alongside professional musicians, singers and dancers to tell their stories: of who they are, who they were, and the journey they’re on.
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Rosetta Life is an organisation that use the arts in health innovation, and has been working for three years on the Stroke Odysseys project to help people living with the debilitating long-term effects of a stroke or brain injury. The project is a partnership between health professionals and artists to help those with an altered capacity to move, speak and express themselves. Often the participants are suffering from severe depression or anxiety: Stroke Odysseys helps them to recover their identities and find purpose again. There are around 100,000 strokes in the UK each year.
The show, first performed at London dance venue The Place in May, will be accompanied by panel discussions with dancers, musicians, neurologists and neuroscientists to explore the impact of storytelling through song and dance on the brains ability to heal itself. In each area, Rosetta Life will be working with local health professionals and artists working in health care to share their findings of the benefits of using movement and song in recovery.
Circomedia, Nov 16, 7.30pm, £17/£15 concs. Ages 11+.
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