Cloud Mushrooms (2014-2018)

Cloud Mushrooms is a modular performance structure that develops in response to the site, content and audience. In the various versions of the piece Ultimate Dancer and Fritz Welch will run loose through a shadow at night; pull up all the floorboards and sift through the dust underneath; exhale hopelessness until utter depletion; imitate thunderclaps with even louder repercussions; shutter at the thought of your tears and stand on each other’s shoulders while consulting history. They will take clues from flowers and plants to transcribe into Morse code for heartbeats. They will dance like snakes on a legless sunrise. And they will transmute awfulness from the evilest ills.

Credits
Created and performed by: Louise Ahl and Fritz Welch
Photography: Graeme MacDonald and Take Me Somewhere Festival 2017

Cloud Mushrooms was originally developed for Arches Live 2014 and further developed through a commission from Take Me Somewhere Festival 2017

Performances

2nd - 3rd October 2014 at The Arches as part of Arches Live, Glasgow

3rd March 2017 at Platform as part of Take Me Somewhere Festival

29th April 2017 at The Anatomy Rooms, Citymoves Aberdeen

3rd February 2018 at Performance Space Folkestone as part of Profound Sound

Video documentation available upon request.