Winner of the award for Outstanding Production, Outstanding Design and Best Circography at the 2021 International Circus Awards.
When facing change you have two options - to tame the beast or to ride the beast. For acrobatics and physical theatre company, Gravity & Other Myths, 2020 was a beast like no other and taming it was never a viable option. From the sobering scenario of becoming an acrobatics based company who couldn’t touch each other, our most ambitious work to date was conceived.
The Pulse is a monolithic work of scale that tells a story of cause and effect. How we, as people, communities or clusters of particles, respond to the subtle or significant changes that are continually happening around us.
Geoff Cobham’s sentient lighting design, with Darcy Grant's inspired direction and Ekrem Eli Phoenix's driving score inhabited by the formidable Orfeó Català Girls Choir from Barcelona conducted by Buia Reixach create an organic synchronicity of human movement and sound - all to the beat of your own pounding pulse!
Right from the start, the Cor de Noies de l'Orfeó Català gives its singers the chance to work on a repertoire created exclusively for treble voice choirs. It is a highly enriching experience for the Escola Coral, as it gives choristers coming out of the Cor Infantil the chance to complete their choral education in a choir for girls.
The 39 members of the choir, aged between 16 and 25, explore the choral possibilities of their voices through a weekly work programme that includes both voice training and rehearsals.The freshness, ductility and tenderness of their voices create a very special, attractive sound in concerts. Nevertheless, the work of the choir goes further in the vocal field, successfully venturing new experiences which explore other fields, such as the incorporation of stage features. The performers have taken up this motivating challenge and adapted to it with enormous versatility.
