WRINGING METAMORPHOSIS

Wringing Metamorphosis is a multi-disciplinary dance theatre company created by choreographers, dancers and directors Blue Pieta and Charis Taplin, with musical design and song from Yasmin Rai, Elinor Arden, Jessica Raja-Brown and Ynys Barnard Masterson

Latest Works

HUMANIMAL was a performance collaboration with T.S Elliot Prize Winner Bhanu Kapil as part of the Serpentine Gallery’s Queer Earth project in July 2022. It was curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kostas Stasinopoulos, Macarena Gomez-Barris , Jack Halberstam in collaboration with Queer Circle at Stone Nest London. The piece was an performative exploration of Kapil’s text under the same title.

Trojan Women is Wringining Metamorphosis’ debuted in March 2022 and debuted at Fitz Patrick Hall . Using puppetry and dance-theatre we mediate the hinterland between ancient mythology and personal memory. Driven by the totality of creation and destruction warfare is transmuted by forgiveness.

Hospital of the Universe was our collaboration with T.S Elliot prize winner Bhanu Kapil at Fitzpatrick Hall in February 2022.

Enigma of Arrival was our collaboration with Diaspora’s Now a performance art collective from the Royal College of Art and Decolonise Art History Cambridge University at Gallery V Cambridge in February 2022.

OMPHALOS  debuted at Theatre Peckham in August 2021. A dance-theatre piece converging dream and ancestry into a surreal theatre of martyrdom, housewives, the Virgin Mary, apricot stones and Marilyn Monroe.

Introduction

For us matter is an alchemical material we transform into light. We use a unique devising process combining contemporary dance with liturgy (bodily religious worship) and modern/ancient theatrical techniques such as Butoh and Dionysian Theatre. At the centre of our work lies deep physical research into personal dreamscape and ancestry which we merge with mythologies ranging from Christian medieval religious iconography to Mesopotamian myth and film noir. Our live music covers a miscellany of styles including Sephardic, Persian lullaby, Arabic folk and Flamenco; alongside disciplines from cinema to puppetry. The multidisciplinary threads of our work join in the fulcrum of the body, turning the stage (be it a theatre, field, studio, or shower cubicle) into a limitless space in which the threads of performer integrate with that of the audience, to create a single immersive fabric of worldmaking and ritual.

We dance with the immortality of Being and enter Death to reclaim the Soul from the Void and with this paint Love.