How Like An Angel - LIVE
How Like An Angel is a show for six acrobats of Australian contemporary circus group Circa and nine singers of I Fagiolini. The idea of putting the two groups together came from Jonathan Holloway, former director of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Perth International Arts Festival (where the show premiered in 2012). The show was created by Yaron Lifschitz and Robert Hollingworth, the directors of Circa and I Fagiolini.
In 2013, the show returned to tour to Brighton, Norwich, Salisbury and London with sold-out audiences and great reviews. In 2014, there were performances in New York at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival and in 2016 the show premiered in Norway.
The show was filmed for The Space with Polyphonic Films. The film presents a response to the show in film, capturing the essence of this ground-breaking collaboration. It is available on DVD and VOD - click the link in the trailer below!
CREATIVE TEAM
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Directed by Yaron Lifschitz
Music Director - Robert Hollingworth
Circa
I Fagiolini
Commissioned by Norfolk and Norwich Festival and Arts Council England.
Photos: Danny Higgins
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Filmed at Ely, Norwich and Gloucester Cathedrals
2012 / 1:34
“Extraordinary”
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Photography by Danny Higgins
DIRECTOR’S NOTE
“The starting point of How Like An Angel was to make a show which was as much about the cathedrals where we would go on to perform it as about the performers who would make the show,” says Robert Hollingworth. “I could see how the beautiful work of Circa could forge a human relationship with the cathedrals and challenge everyone’s relationship to these buildings – connected with formal worship and conceived in very different times. And the music (even the variety we present in the show: Renaissance motets, a medieval monody, South African church music and a commission from Adrian Williams) would have an intrinsic relation to such spaces. But circus and a capella vocal music function in such fundamentally different ways that making something more than a soundtrack to the physical action initially foxed us.
“What made the show and became apparent over the rehearsal and performance process was both groups’ commitment to each other and to the spaces they performed in. Rudi Mineur (acrobat) talks about this in the film, referring not to the amazing ‘tricks’ but to the expressive language through which Circa communicates and which became heavily affected by the extraordinary spaces they found themselves in.
ROBERT HOLLINGWORTH
