Geraldine Pilgrim
Not Waving But Drowning
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installation performance: duration 120 mins; video documentation above – 5 mins 30 secs
From the original Festival website:
Geraldine Pilgrim was Artistic Director of Hesitate and Demonstrate (1975-86), a touring visual theatre company funded by the Arts Council and the British Council. She has extensive experience in managing and artistic directing, devising and designing large-scale site-specific projects and theatre based productions, liaising with producers and funders, local councils and businesses and working with artists and young people as placements and performing participants.
Geraldine set up the performance company Corridor in 2000 to create site-specific performances and installations in unusual buildings often with young people, older people and arts and community groups working alongside professional practitioners. Through this method the participants are enabled to learn-by-doing within a supportive environment.
Recent projects have included: Hotel (2000), Spa (2003), Deep End (2005), Enchanted Parks (2007), Dreams of a Winter Night (2007).
Assistant Artist: Kasper Svenstrup Hansen, Lighting: Chahine Yavroyan, Sound: Nik Kennedy, Production management: Steve Wald
Geraldine Pilgrim is an ArtsAdmin supported artist.
Update June 2020:
Geraldine’s new show Handbag At Home can be viewed on:
Not Waving But Drowning
A performance/installation created especially for the NRLA 2010.WATCH VIDEO
From the original Festival website:
Geraldine Pilgrim was Artistic Director of Hesitate and Demonstrate (1975-86), a touring visual theatre company funded by the Arts Council and the British Council. She has extensive experience in managing and artistic directing, devising and designing large-scale site-specific projects and theatre based productions, liaising with producers and funders, local councils and businesses and working with artists and young people as placements and performing participants.
Geraldine set up the performance company Corridor in 2000 to create site-specific performances and installations in unusual buildings often with young people, older people and arts and community groups working alongside professional practitioners. Through this method the participants are enabled to learn-by-doing within a supportive environment.
Recent projects have included: Hotel (2000), Spa (2003), Deep End (2005), Enchanted Parks (2007), Dreams of a Winter Night (2009).
Assistant Artist Kasper Svenstrup Hansen, Lighting Chain Yavroyan, Sound Nik Kennedy, Production management Steve Wald
Geraldine Pilgrim is an ArtsAdmin supported artist.
corridorperformance.org