​Grania Pickard

Aerial Lines is the name of the collaboration between myself and actor-aerialist Helen Parke (Parkey). 

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Our collaboration began in 2019, when I asked Parkey to support me in creating a short devised aerial adaptation of Ophelia (pictured left) to be performed at the Bristol Shakespeare Festival. We discovered we enjoyed working together and had a common interest in finding ways to combine text and aerial movement that encouraged authenticity in performance. 

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In 2021 we were supported by Arts Council England to carry out research and development into the following:

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Exploratory workshops bringing aerialists and actors together to explore the text of Macbeth on the floor, the air and the space in between.

 

These workshops are part of a project to develop a new methodology for working with voice, text & aerial; combining circus and acting to find a common language.

 

We are interested in encouraging and informing opportunities for people from multi-disciplinary backgrounds and most importantly a wider range of socio-economic and racial backgrounds, supporting

the under-represented.

 

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