All That is Solid Melts into Air
London’s story is an epic and perpetual tale of regeneration and change. Industries have changed, bombs have fallen, tower blocks have soared and markets plummeted. The past is wiped away and new futures promised. How does a city survive as all that is solid melts into air? What does it take to let go of the past when the future is still out of reach?
tangled feet tells the exhilarating and moving human story of London’s regeneration in a gravity- defying piece of highly physical storytelling on a specially constructed scaffold stage.
"A beautiful, absorbing and moving production with universal audience appeal, which also marks tangled feet out as one of this country’s most exciting outdoor theatre companies”
Bradley Hemmings, Artistic Director, GDIF
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air was performed as part of Greenwich + Docklands Festival and at Thomas Tallis School in June 2011.
This production pushed our long-term collaboration with Thomas Tallis School into new and ambitious territory. The show was workshopped at the school at a point when the school community was preparing to leave their old building to be demolished and to move into its new building, and the themes and stories were directly influenced by the powerful mixed feelings of hope and sadness we discovered there. Over forty students performed in the production as part of the guerilla ensemble which invades the scaffold at the end of the piece in a jubilant act of optimism and celebration.
Creative team
Devised by the ensemble
Directed by Nathan Curry and Kat Joyce
Aerial direction: Al Orange
Production manager: Luke Gledsdale
Design: Jo Scotcher
Music: Nick Gill
Performed by Helen Ball, Sarah Calver, Simon Carroll-Jones, Mario Christofides, Simon Fee, Susan Hingley, Antoine Marc and Leon Smith.
The All That Is Solid rehearsal blog can be found here:
www.tangledfeet-media.com/scaffold
The piece is designed to be situated in an urban square or industrial setting, in a place where scaffolding might normally be found. It is 45 minutes long and for an audience of 500-1000
We are planning to tour All That Is Solid Melts Into Air in 2012. Please get in touch for more details.