Must Come Down: a traditional cross-artform collaboration

Dancers working with singers working with storytellers working with musicians working with film-makers working with artists working with dancers and in a multitude of permutations working with each other and their audiences in new and inspirational places and times.

Not only bringing new interpretations to each artform, but challenging the artists and their arts in provocative ways: drawing narrative from dance, music from word, colour from tone, the new from the old and the old from the new.

This film, 'Must Come Down: a traditional cross-artform collaboration', is an exploration of those cross-artform experimental processes within the traditional arts.
Made by James McDonald.
Additional filming by Kat Macaulay, Ely Rosenblum and Jack Honeysett.

Must Come Down was a collaboration between:

Morris Offspring (UK)
Maple Morris (Canada / USA)
Debs Newbold - storyteller
Becky Price - accordion
Gavin Davenport - vocals and guitar
Jackie Oates - vocals and fiddle
Matthew Keegan-Phipps - clarinet

It was directed by Laurel Swift.

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

This work was supported with funds from the PRS for Music Foundation. www.prsformusicfoundation.com

Must Come Down was supported by The English Folk Dance and Song Society, media sponsor fRoots.

www.shanakee.org

Category:

Music

Tags:

• maple
• morris
• dancing
• offspring
• music
• dance
• traditional
• tunes
• cross-artform
• cross-arts
• storytelling
• folk-arts
• cecil
• sharp
• house
• efdss

[seamasmac]

Yes, there is. It was performed live earlier this year.

[jenmazz1]

Is there a version of his without all the talking?