Student performers, designers, composers and pianists are coming together in the College’s annual Balance exhibition, a showcase of emerging talent in design for performance.
Balance at London’s Bargehouse
This year, taking inspiration from the new work created by design students, composers have been commissioned to create individually tailored pieces of music to suit the pianists’ particular skills and interests.
Jiyoon Jung’s set & costume designs for National Dance Company Wales’ Alternative Routes
Balance will be on display in the College’s Linbury Gallery, and then at The Bargehouse on London’s South Bank.
Head of Keyboard, Simon Phillippo comments: “As part of the College’s strategy for training the next generation of musicians as imaginative, resourceful and collaborative performers, this summer term students are also being asked to take on the role of commissioning artist.”
The new piano works will be performed in distinct and complementary settings both at RWCMD and The Bargehouse, providing an integral contribution to ‘Balance’.
Getting ready for Balance at The Bargehouse
Balance also features final year actor, Betty Jane Walsh in Beckett’s infamous Not I, an eerie and visually hypnotic 14 minutes of theatre where a solitary, disembodied mouth (pictured above) floats high in the darkness, telling us a fragmented story of a specific traumatic experience in an old woman’s life.
Balance will be at RWCMD, 9-15 June and then at London’s Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, 24-26 June
Admission Free
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