We like to be willfully interdisciplinary in our approach and our projects often get remixed from one form to another as they develop: so what started out as an idea for a novel, might grow towards being a film, and then a performance, and then a piece of music, and then a performance again.
Ultimately, we want to find the heart of each story and find the best form with which to share that with an audience, now.
Photo: Timothy X Atack
This can make our development periods very long; so we tend to be working on multiple projects. Every year (used to be twice a year, but lately it’s tended to be once a year), as part of our ongoing practice, we do a creative exercise that we call ‘The Thirty’.
It’s essentially the two of us talking through a list of 30 ideas that we feel are current or somehow fascinating. They might be as broad as an area of research, or as well-formed as an ongoing touring show, or as nebulous as a phrase we simply like as a title. It’s a tactic for forcing us to keep difficult ideas on the table, ensuring that strong ideas – be they very ambitious, or impossible, or small, or troublesome – never get left behind.
We list them because these are all sparks that we want to fire up. Sometimes it takes years for a project to come to fruition, so we’ve got to start somewhere.
If you’d like to know more about any of these projects and/or help us make them happen then please get in touch.
At the moment, The Thirty looks like this:
- Father Alberto and the Flying Girl
- Vox Humana
- Mum.Doc
- The Shadow Biosphere
- Do You Love Me Now
- Nightshift Variations
- Heartworm
- Babel’s Cupid
- Kelli Riley
- The Broken Knight
- Dark Land Light House VR
- SUPERNOVA
- ‘Everything Everywhere’
- Forest 404
- Everyone’s Favourite War
- Sex Lies And Videotape
- Hauntology
- The Chord
- A Million Tiny Glitches
- Phosphenes
- The Opposition
- Some of the People
- Hypergothic
- BUZZARD
- Sidekicks
- Splinter
- Dracula
- I Will Do It For Science
- Dancing and Apologising
- A Broken Consort