Give Me Your Blessing, for I Go to a Foreign Land

Give Me Your Blessing, for I Go to a Foreign Land
Collaboration with composer Elena Langer and folk performers from
sPokrovsky Ensemble, Taganka Theatre, Moscow, led by Maria (Masha) Nefedova and Olga Yukecheva.

Lyric theatre / media theatre piece, exploring images of authenticity, migration, transformation in times of technological change.
Inspired by aspects of Stravinsky’s Les Noces.
VR control hardware devised by media performer/artist Ryan Jordan

Media: song, dance, traditional musical instruments, video, Super 8mm cine-film, shadow play, audio technologies including Edison Cylinder player, vinyl records, magnetic tape, digital audio, online VR space.

Locations: The Clore Ballet Studio at the  ROH;  a virtual Clore Studio on Second Life (VR platform)

Royal Opera House ROH2
Opera Genesis

Link to Publication – Hopkins, T (2010) ‘Give me your blessing for I go to a foreign land’  in Bay-Cheng S, Kattenbelt K, Lavender A and Nelson R (eds.) Mapping Intermediality in performance. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p237-246.