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The
Rare Theatricall
is a collective of musicians, dancers, actors and visual artists who
take old
music as the point of departure for creating new work.
United by a belief that in this music there is a
depth of
expression still to be uncovered, we find inspiration and
illumination in the collaborative
process.
Our
projects are all based on pieces of music from sometime before 1800,
played live on historical
instruments as part of a performance
involving any number of other artistic disciplines. Recent
work
includes an evening of fairy-tale storytelling in a
Shoreditch warehouse with actors, marionettes and
dancers, based
on fantastical 17th-century string music; a candlelit crypt in
Clerkenwell was the
venue for 'Swift as a Shadow', which paired
English Baroque theatre music with retellings of
Shakespearian
tales as works of dance theatre, shadow puppetry and video animation.
As well as
these sorts of performances, we’ve put on a
number smaller projects and concerts throughout the
UK, and have
just reached the end of a two-year residency at the Royal Academy of
Music as
Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellows.