Photo by Robin Savage: Two in the Hand - Christmas at Kew Gardens Light Trail 2023/24
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Two in the Hand
Geraldine’s light installation is part of “Christmas at Blenheim Palace” this year. The light trail is open from Friday 15th November 2024 to Wednesday 1st January 2025. Commissioned originally for the Stourhead Christmas Light Trail in 2021/22, 'Two in the Hand' then travelled to Christmas at Kew in 2022/23 and now arrives at Blenheim Palace. Click here for full information at the Blenheim Palace website. |
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Jermyn Street Theatre
In August Geraldine was a guest speaker at the Jermyn Street Theatre for a lunchtime panel discussion on “How theatre & art is inspired by the geographical, historical and architectural location where it is made. Whether in cities, towns, everyday locations or extraordinary sites - how does theatre speak to, reflect and inspire its place of origin?” |
This was discussion was part of their Hidden Saint James's project, an immersive audio experience about the past present and imagined future of St James's Church in Piccadilly created by Gabriele Uboldi and Anna Ryder as part of Inside Out, Westminster's arts festival.
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ENOA at Theatre De La Monnaie Brussels
In September Geraldine was a guest speaker at the European Network of opera Academies- ENOA, Workshop at Theatre De La Monnaie Brussels on “Writing and composing opera and challenges facing our society” - discussing working with communities. This workshop was for the writing teams of opera (composers, librettists & dramaturges) aiming at giving them tools and experience to write opera for the 21st century. |
Photo credit: Vincent Beaume
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Women Opera Makers workshop 2023 Académie du Festival d'Aix
10 – 14 July 2023 Geraldine has been selected as one of 12 artists in the Women Opera Makers workshop 2023 as part of the Académie du Festival d'Aix. Since 2016, the Académie du Festival d'Aix has been working to improve the representation of women in the field of opera and, while offering artists a unique support programme, is enabling the sector to evolve. |
Conceived by stage director Katie Mitchell, the Women Opera Makers workshop aims to increase the visibility of women who are evolving in the fields of music creation, directing, conducting, playwriting and performance. In addition to its action for the equity between women and men in the fields of multidisciplinary and musical arts, this workshop works for diversity in the broad sense. As such, it deliberately encourages the expression of different aesthetics and the creation of new narratives, and values artistic creativity at the highest level. The workshop objectives are to strengthen the artists’ artistic and multidisciplinary network, to receive personalised advice in career development strategy, to offer guidance about managing sexism in the workplace, to reflect on the function of opera today, an to get in contact with professionals of the sector in a unique context.
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A Garden for the Gardenless
Lauderdale House has been awarded ACE R&D funding for “A Garden for the Gardenless” Geraldine’s site–specific performance in Waterlow Park and Laudedale House Highgate planned for September 2024. Created collaboratively with the composer Felix Cross, this site- specific performance journey is a new departure for her site work, with sung voice and live music at the core. |
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Nominated for Award.
Tenderfoot the theatre performance at The Draycott Arms Theatre directed by Penny Cherns, based on the short story by Edith Pearlman and Designed by Geraldine Pilgrim, was nominated as one of two finalists in the Black Box category for the London Pub Theatre of The Year Awards & Standing Ovation Awards 2022. |
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Tattoo
Geraldine has also just been awarded an installation commission, for a Festival celebrating Trees in June 2023. Details to come later. |
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MA Site – Specific Theatre Practice: Mountview in partnership with Shoreditch Town Hall
The students are now working on their final shows in the empty former Archway Whittington Hospital Campus. These performances are inspired by the students’ own responses to the sites history, architecture and atmosphere resulting in 5 innovative performances. Details to come later. We are now interviewing prospective students for the fifth year of the course starting in January 2023. |
Photo by Joss Ryder
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Geraldine Pilgrim recently designed the performance ofTenderfoot by Edith Peralman, directed by Penny Cherns. Tenderfoot was shown at the Drayton Arms Theatre, from the 26th through the 30th of April, 2022.
Tenderfoot by Edith Pearlman Two people from two very different life experiences share the same space for a short length of time. Both are carrying uncomfortable and unspoken memories. Their meeting means that finally they can own the choices made and move forward, however hesitantly, leaving regrets behind. The subtlety and 'restrained tenderness' of Edith Pearlman’s writing creates a collision of distance and closeness; seeing through windows, watching the other. It explores the need for connection and the difference between seeing and understanding. The characters see each other through their own frames of reference and need. This production uses Pearlman's entire short story to explore the tracks, traces, tendrils and footprints of this text, to embody the language and explore life creating its own narrative. |
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Two in the Hand
A light installation by Geraldine Pilgrim was part of The Stourhead Christmas light trail. From the white doves of peace to the blue birds of happiness... Two in the Hand is an installation celebrating how the simplicity of seeing birds in a tree can bring joy to us all. Two in the Hand ran during Christmas at Stourhead (November 2021 through January 2022). |
Photograph by Jimmy Lees
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HANDBAG at Stoke on Trent
Geraldine Pilgrim Performance Company ran a new HANDBAG performance for the Big Feast 2021 in Bethesda Gardens Hanley on Saturday 28 August 2021. The performance lasted 12 minutes and and was performed 7 times over the course of the afternoon. |
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Opera Creation Workshop,
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence Geraldine has been selected to be part of the 2021 Opera Creation Workshop of the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Out of the 92 applications they received for this residency, Geraldine is one of the fourteen participants selected for this program. |
Geraldine has been selected to be part of the 2021 Opera Creation Workshop of the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Out of the 92 applications they received for this residency, Geraldine is one of the fourteen participants selected for this program.
This emblematic workshop of the Académie of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence is a unique space for reflection, combing the different activities, backgrounds and aesthetics that make opera the multidisciplinary art that it is.
The workshop is structured around daily panel discussions, live performances, and conferences with the artists and other professionals who programme the Festival. It is a place for dialogue, discovery, and intellectual and artistic stimulation, where the issues that affect opera today and tomorrow are freely reassessed. The event aims to elicit new artistic intentions while simultaneously strengthening and diversifying the participants’ professional networks. The workshop will be led by Andrea Breth, the award-winning German stage director of both theatre and opera, and the former artistic director of the Schaubühne in Berlin. Her participation in the workshop marks Andrea Breth’s second collaboration with the Festival d’Aix, for which she recreated her production of Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz during the 2019 edition.
Geraldine's participation in the Opera Creation Workshop has now been postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions till summer 2022.
This emblematic workshop of the Académie of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence is a unique space for reflection, combing the different activities, backgrounds and aesthetics that make opera the multidisciplinary art that it is.
The workshop is structured around daily panel discussions, live performances, and conferences with the artists and other professionals who programme the Festival. It is a place for dialogue, discovery, and intellectual and artistic stimulation, where the issues that affect opera today and tomorrow are freely reassessed. The event aims to elicit new artistic intentions while simultaneously strengthening and diversifying the participants’ professional networks. The workshop will be led by Andrea Breth, the award-winning German stage director of both theatre and opera, and the former artistic director of the Schaubühne in Berlin. Her participation in the workshop marks Andrea Breth’s second collaboration with the Festival d’Aix, for which she recreated her production of Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz during the 2019 edition.
Geraldine's participation in the Opera Creation Workshop has now been postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions till summer 2022.
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A celebratory, online participatory performance with wonderful music, dancing and handbags.
Running through 2022. Viewing is free to everyone. Presented by Geraldine Pilgrim & Mountview London. |
Watch at www.geraldinepilgrim.com and www.mountview.org.uk.
In different rooms, remnants of parties the night before are cleared away. A woman sits in her bedroom dreaming, as she gets up a beat begins, and the sound of a classic dance track fills the air. She puts down her handbag and begins to dance…
Full information at our Calendar page.
In different rooms, remnants of parties the night before are cleared away. A woman sits in her bedroom dreaming, as she gets up a beat begins, and the sound of a classic dance track fills the air. She puts down her handbag and begins to dance…
Full information at our Calendar page.
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THEIR MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT came to a close at HAREWOOD HOUSE, YORKSHIRE.
Their Most Obedient Servant was a two-part installation celebrating Harewood’s Chippendale collection. |
Family Tree occupied the centre of the Courtyard (the 18th century stables), and was in situ until 04 November 2018. Here, Geraldine re-imagined a previous installation to connect with Chippendale, his family, and his craft; a conception of Thomas Chippendale, inspired by his love of wood, dreaming of his own family tree.
Root and Branch, The other element in the installation came to a close on 4 September 2018. This work was positioned in the Terrace Gallery, and laid bare the connection between the grandest finished piece of furniture, and the raw material and energy of its source; wood from the tree.
"Their most obedient servant” was the term used by Thomas Chippendale at the end of his introduction to his ground-breaking furniture design catalogue,The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker’s Director.
Root and Branch, The other element in the installation came to a close on 4 September 2018. This work was positioned in the Terrace Gallery, and laid bare the connection between the grandest finished piece of furniture, and the raw material and energy of its source; wood from the tree.
"Their most obedient servant” was the term used by Thomas Chippendale at the end of his introduction to his ground-breaking furniture design catalogue,The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker’s Director.
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Inteatro, Polverigi Italy
Geraldine led a Site-Specific Training Residency as part of the Sipario Bis Bis training programme in Theatre, Cinema and TV for professional ltalian artists for Inteatro at Villa Nappi, Polverigi, Ancona, Italy. Other course leaders for the programme were Marco Baliani, Lucia Mascina and Massimo De Lorenzo. Geraldine will be returning to Italy in February and May 2019. The Training Residency followed on from a Site-Specific Theatre Practice Workshop, recently delivered at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018. Royal Court Theatre, London Geraldine took part in the Sharing The Stage Symposium. "Over the past three years, a group of leading theatre companies and practitioners have been working together to interrogate and question the role of participatory arts practice. Shows were made in prisons, abandoned docks, care homes, favelas, a football stadium, repurposed buildings and alternative spaces across the U.K. Communities shared stories, films were made, blogs uploaded, nights and days of invigorating debate were had with artists, participants and policy makers. Now we’re regrouping and you are invited to be part of what comes next. Hosted and presented by companies from the Sharing the Stage network including: National Theatre of Scotland, Sage Gateshead, Graeae Theatre Company, Contact Theatre Manchester, Synergy Theatre Company, Geraldine Pilgrim, Royal Court Theatre and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation." Harewood House Yorkshire Geraldine presented a talk at Harewood House for Leeds Arts University students, focusing on the making and context of her two-part installation Their Most Obedient Servant (commissioned by Harewood House). Also presenting on the day, Lord Whitney design studio delved into the making and context of the Harewood immersive exhibition commission Seeds of Hope - Journey through Untold Stories. After The Missing Passenger - a Murder Mystery Exhibition Trail at the National Rail Museum York in 2017, the Geraldine Pilgrim Performance Company has been working on Geraldine’s Harewood House commission in Yorkshire, a 2- part site – specific installation celebrating Thomas Chippendale’s 300th anniversary: Their Most Obedient Servant opened March 23rd and her Terrace Gallery installation Root and Branch ran till September 2nd 2018, and her installation for the 18th century Courtyard Family Tree runs till November 4th 2018. Entry costs apply. Please see the Harewood House website for details. Geraldine was interviewed about this work on BBC Radio 4's Front Row on April 24th 2018. There is a Listen Again segment for the episode of Front Row which can be reached by clicking on this link. Geraldine was commissioned by Folkestone Quarterhouse to design Sleep Over. The installation was part of Normal? Festival of the Brain on May 12th, 2018. 15 people looked up at the stars during an overnight stay in Folkestone Quarterhouse theatre. Additionally, Geraldine has created, and is leading the MA Site- Specific Theatre Practice for Mountview in partnership with Shoreditch Town Hall - commencing January 2019. Please do share this information if you know of anyone who might be interested in applying. www.mountview.org.uk |