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Devisers - Shaaray Sharif and Emily Rae Composer - Emily Rae Performers - Shaaray Sharif & Emily Rae
This performance is an exploration grounded in Shaaray's lived experience of racial trauma, exploring how trauma shapes and disrupts the self and the relationships with those around them. The work emerges from a foundation of this lived experience, but it does not depict this directly; instead, it invites audiences into a more open, abstract space where personal traumas can be felt, questioned, and interpreted in multiple ways.
Through a multidisciplinary approach, the performance weaves together projected text, movement, and composition to create an immersive environment. Projected text offers fragmented thoughts of identity, and movement embodies memories, tension, and the body's response to the weight of processing trauma. The composition serves as an aural representation of internal turmoil and moments of hope during healing.
Instead of a linear narrative, the work embraces fragmentation and abstraction, confronting the complexity of processing trauma. Rather than representing one fixed perspective, the piece invites audiences to witness and engage with what is left unsaid, unseen, or unresolved. In doing so, it opens a space for reflection and the potential of shared understanding through lived experience.
Julia Bauer - Photographer
Lucas Chih-Peng Kao - Videographer
Sound
'The composition for this performance exists as fixed media, integrating sonic soundscaping and featuring heavy vibrational material with the intent to be physically felt from the audience. The music contrasts and blends the manipulation of grating, visceral material with raw phrases of my trumpet playing, layering textures that range from subtle to confrontational.' -Emily Rae
The sound in 'With You.' was integral to the devising process, a new component that expanded Shaarays devising techniques for future projects. Small sound samples (composed by Emily) were often used in the rehearsal room as a stimulus to develop the choreography! The sound and movement relied on each other, constantly interweaving and helping each other progress.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Lighting Designer: Benny Goodman
Sound Designer: Kevin Murray
A/V Programmer: Andy Reid
Production Manager: Jacqui Howard
Stage Manager (Intermedia Gallery): Heather Milne
Stage Manager (CCA5): Ruby Noble
Stage Manager (Cinema Room): Anne Peart
Production Electrician: Jamie Murray
Production Sound: Lana Kirk
Stage Supervisor: Jon Meggat
A/V Technician: Eoin Beaton
Swing Technician: Dominic de Montfalcon
Swing Technician/Exhibition Staff: Viola Fowler
Performed at the Into The New Festival, Feburary 2025