Take Me Somewhere | 21Common - Regina Caeli

Part of Take Me Somewhere Festival, 15 to 26 October 
Presented by Tramway 

21 October 7 to 8pm
22 October 6.15 to 7.15pm

Regina Caeli explores a life lived together; framed by funeral rituals, a dodgy children’s choir and the music of Eric Carmen. 

Artist Lucy Gaizely asks Gary Gardiner, her partner of 23 years, to collaborate in crafting a posthumous finale for her recently deceased father, an activity which also maps the trajectory of their relationship. What follows is an eruptive dissection of time-served love. Regina Caeli questions how we hold each other’s fragility, grow together, and endure hard things, and asks whether love is just a choreographed set of virtuosic movements carrying us from birth to death.

An immersive audience experience, Regina Caeli uses spatial audio technology to recreate the movements of Heavenly objects, euphoric joy and the Fear of God coupled with an AI generated dance dialogue creating autonomous and complex movement simulations representing our past, present, and future selves. 

Illuminating a real life couple through choreography borne of dependency, grief and rage, Regina Caeli is an apoplectic sermon, a one sided eulogy where the dead have no right to reply.

Recommended for ages 18+

Audience notes
Discussion of death and dying
Sexual references
Strong Language

Sensory notes
Flashing Lights
Loud Music
Full blackout

Ear defenders, ear plugs and dark glasses will be available to borrow

ACCESS 
This performance will be BSL Interpreted on Wednesday 22 October.
Visit the Take Me Somewhere Festival Access Page

Credits

21Common Co-Directors: Lucy Gaizely and Gary Gardiner
Production Manager: Craig Fleming
Lighting Designer: Michaella Fee
Scenographer / Set Designer: Jenny Booth
Creative Technologist / AV Designer: Dav Bernard
Sound Designer: Kevin Murray
Stage Manager / Technician: Holly Wright
Associate Choreographer: Althea Young
21Common Associate Artist: Ian Johnston
21Common Executive Director: Louise Irwin
Development/ Partner Credits
Co-produced with Immersive Arts Award,
Tramway and Beacon Arts Centre and Creative Scotland

Developed via a creative residency at Tanzzentrale, Nuremberg, Germany supported by The Work Room, the International Office, Nuremberg and The Goethe Institut Glasgow.

Photo Joanna Stawnicka