BECAUSE OF GRAVITY
BECAUSE OF GRAVITY
Teaching & Facilitation
Youth & Community Projects
Theatre / Film / Digital /Music
TEACHING & FACILITATION
TEACHING & FACILITATION
Performance & Research
Bridget Fiske
Belarus Free Theatre
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
2018 - 2019
'Counting Sheep: Staging A Revolution' - Choreographic, Movement and Rehearsal Director
"Counting Sheep: Staging A Revolution' is a deeply personal retelling of the revolution in Ukraine, where creators Mark and Marichka Marczyk met and fell in love on the barricades of Maidan Square in Kyiv in 2014."
A VAULT Festival London 2019, Headline Production
Creators and Writers...Mark and Marichka Marczyk
Directors...Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin
Music...Balaklava Blues
Presenters...Selfconsious Productions, Wild Yak
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
2018
'Trustees' - Movement Director
"In a major policy shift, the government has announced a moratorium on funding for performing arts organisations Australia-wide. The Trustees of Melbourne’s fictional Lone Pine Theatre Company gather to assess the damage. Amid the chatter and outrage and belligerence of public conversation lies a void: the Great Australian Silence. What are we afraid of hearing? Who are we afraid will say it?"
Malthouse and Melbourne International Festival
Writers...Natalia Kaliada, and Nicolai Khalezin with Daniel Schlusser and cast
Directors...Natalia Kaliada, Nicolai Khalezin
Cast...Tammy Anderson, Natasha Herbert, Niharika Senapati, Hazem Shammas, Daniel Schlusser
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
2016-2019
'Burning Doors' with Pussy Riot's Maria Alokhyna - Choreographic Director and Rehearsal Director
'Shining a light on the total suppression of artistic freedoms just a three-hour flight from London, the production illuminates the role of contemporary artists in dictatorial societies and examines what happens to people when they are declared enemies of the state simply for making art. BFT explores the psychological impact of imprisonment, exile and forced migration, casting their gaze towards the displacement of people due to political persecution and conflict arriving in Europe today.'
Listed in The New York Time's 'Best Theatre of 2017' / Winner 'Best Ensemble' Off West End
Premiere...Leicester Curve (Leicester Curve, UK) / Touring...Soho Theatre (London, UK) and various UK venues,,VIE Festival (Modena, IT), Melbourne Arts Centre (Melbourne, AUS), Theatre der Welt (Hamburgh, DE), Tampere Theatre Festival (Tampere, FI), On The Boards (Seattle, USA), La MaMa (NYC, USA), The Clarice (Maryland, USA), Luminato (Toronto, CA) and Ivan Franko Theatre (Kyiv, UA)
Award
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
2012-2015
'Trash Cuisine' - Choreographic Director and Rehearsal Director
"Provocative and urgent, ‘Trash Cuisine’ pierces the imagination with moments of the darkest humour as it challenges the ongoing existence of capital punishment in the contemporary world…BFT serve up food, music, dance and Shakespeare as true stories from inmates, executioners, human rights lawyers and families of the executed take centre-stage."
Winner 'Total Impact' Award, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013
Originally commissioned and presented as part of The European Cultural Foundation’s ‘Imagining Europe’. Premiere October 2012: Stadsschouwburg (Amsterdam, NL) / Touring...Schouwburg (Rotterdam, NL), Swedish Biennial for Performing Arts (Jönköping, SE), Mayfest Tabbacco Factory (Bristol, UK), Young Vic (London, UK), Pleasance Courtyard - The Grande, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK), and La MaMa (New York City, USA)
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
Role: Choreography, Movement and Rehearsal Director
2014-2015
'Red Forest' - - Choreographic Director, Rehearsal Director and International Researcher
"Red Forest is a modern epic that explores the impact of war and environmental crisis on some of the most vulnerable people in the world."
A Belarus Free Theatre and Young Vic co-production, commissioned by LIFT and Melbourne International Festival
Premiere...Young Vic for LIFT Festival (London, UK) / Touring...MOT Festival (Skopje, MK), VIE Festival (Modena, IT) and Le Vie Dei Festival (Rome, IT)
