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Image: Lifeline / Photographer: Richard Haughton

Image: Photographer: Richard Haughton

MATILDA LEYSER

Aerial performance, Aerial theatre, Circus

SIZE OF COMPANY
2–4 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Middle-scale
Minimum height 5m required

PERMANENT STAFF
Performer
Matilda Leyser

Producer
Simon Chatterton

ARTISTIC POLICY
Matilda Leyser uses a combination of dramatic and circus techniques to create powerful contemporary performance imbued with warmth, wit and personality. Her pieces are inspired by the poetic potential within aerial performance, demonstrating its ability to physically manifest many of the metaphors through which we describe human experience. The performer is perceived as human and vulnerable, rather than as a super-human performing circus “tricks”.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
The Times ()

The Stage ()

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
From birth to death – an entire lifeline acted out on a single, suspended rope. Matilda Leyser’s poignant and poetic production depicts this most human of dramas with unique and amazing skill. (23 mins, 1 on stage, 2–3 on the road.)

This full-length solo aerial-theatre piece, brings together highly-respected collaborators from the world of theatre and dance including directors Andrew Dawson, Annabel Arden and Annie Castledine, choreographer Rosemary Lee and writer Bryony Lavery. (60 mins, 1 on stage, 4 on the road.)

WRAP-AROUND
Matilda Leyser has taught all ages and abilities; offering workshops in theatre and circus-theatre, contact Improvisation, aerial skills and Alexander Technique.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Belgium ()
2006 France, Vietnam ()

TOURING AVAILABILITY
from January 2008
details on request

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