SILT by Arbonauts

SILT is a climate responsive, site-specific performance created for a tidal pool on the Essex coast, commissioned as a key piece for Estuary 2021. Imagining how humans might evolve beyond an impending climate disaster, SILT is a performance with a strong dystopian thread, looking at issues of rising sea levels and performed live in the water by a group of community performers. The SILT creative team includes the dancer and choreographer Becky Namgauds and sound artist Lee Berwick who created a bold soundscape using recorded sounds from along the estuary that he played live during the performance. SILT was commissioned by Metal for Estuary 2021 and supported by Arts Council England. SILT took place on 24 & 25 September to a sell-out audience in Shoeburyness, Essex. Photos by Nina Photography

EMERGING - Scarabeus Aerial Theatre 2021-22

EMERGING centres on the relationship between a trans-son, who has experienced gender dysphoria for as long as he can remember, and his mother, as they embark on a journey into the unknown.

Combining dance, aerial skills and excerpts from letters written to each other, they harness their art to better understand both themselves and each other, as they navigate their relationship and a complex life-changing process.

While sensitively exploring the themes of gender, identity and representation, EMERGING is a universal story about a parent-child relationship, coming of age and independence. It’s an intimate experience of the power of creativity to facilitate profound change.

Asics x Vivienne Westwood

Director / Choreographer: Holly Blakey
Assistant: Becky Namgauds
Creative Direction: Holly Blakey
Photography: Daniele Fummo
Styling: Matthew Josephs
Hair: Shiori Takahashi @ Streeters
Make up: Daniel Sallstrom @ MA World Group
Nails: Cherrie Snow
Set Design: Kim Harding
Casting: Ben Totty for Box Artist Management Ltd.
Music: Gwilym Gold @ Decca Publishing

ASICS x VIVIENNNE WESTWOOD

Director / Choreographer: Holly Blakey
Assistant: Becky Namgauds
Creative Direction: Holly Blakey
Photography: Daniele Fummo
Styling: Matthew Josephs
Hair: Shiori Takahashi @ Streeters
Make up: Daniel Sallstrom @ MA World Group
Nails: Cherrie Snow
Set Design: Kim Harding
Casting: Ben Totty for Box Artist Management Ltd.
Music: Gwilym Gold @ Decca Publishing

The Power of Gentleness - CAP74024 online magazine

Photography: Akytom (@akytom_studio)
Fashion: Kirubel Belay (@kirubelbelay_)
Art Direction: Becky Namgauds (@beckynamgauds)
Make Up: Cassandra Scalia (@cassandrascalia)
Hair: Aya Kuraoka (@ayakuraoka)
Set Design: Bon Walsh (@bon.walsh)
Set Design Assistant: Hugo Harris (@hugoharris_art)
Dance Artists: Sakeema Peng Crook (@sakeemathecrook), Akti-Magdalini Konstantinou (@akti_mk), Ffion Campbell Davies (@ffioncampbelldavies)
Styling credits with thanks to/ featuring Sinead O’Dwyer (@sjodwyer)

What Dance Means To Me - Ellesse

Movement and words by Becky Namgauds

Rhys Lewis - No Right To Love You

performed as part of ‘Inner Contradictions’ A collaboration between Shadi al-Atallah + Rhys Lewis Created to demonstrate how art and music can be used to soothe anxiety, 'Inner Contradictions' is a collaboration between artist Shadi Al Atallah and musician Rhys Lewis. Centered around 5 original and spontaneous artworks brought to life by Shadi over 24 hours, this performance piece was filmed and streamed live at London's Cob Gallery, the timelapse of which is the perfect accompaniment to Rhys's breakout song, No Right To Love You. Directed by Guy Gotto
Choreography annd performance by Becky Namgauds

An Intermission (2020)

Satellite Films
A portrait of contemporary Britain as seen through the eyes of a group of young people experiencing homelessness.
Director Edwin Mingard

Producer Elizabeth Benjamin

Additional cinematography Anna MacDonald

Sound Joe Nattrass

Editor Mariko Montpetit

Composer Tom Haines

Choreographer Becky Namgauds

Production Assistant/Stills Holly Butcher

Production Assistant Sally McLennan
A portrait of contemporary Britain as seen through the eyes of a group of young people experiencing homelessness.

Developed as an artists project over 2018-19, An Intermission won the Guardian x Joseph Rowntree Foundation Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019, and subsequently the BFI and DocSociety’s Made Of Truth award, and has been supported by the Orwell Foundation.

The finished work, a 22-minute artists’ film, will have a festival run in 2020-21 and then be released by the Guardian.

Quarantaine boy Georgina Starr

Written and Directed by
Georgina Starr

Produced by
Elizabeth Benjamin

Executive Producers
Steven Bode, FVU
Susanna Chisholm, FVU
Assistant Choreographer -Becky Namgauds

'Quarantaine' (43mins) is a new film by Georgina Starr co-commissioned in 2019 by Film and Video Umbrella, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Leeds Art Gallery and Glasgow International. With Art Fund support through the Moving Image Fund for Museums. Supported by Arts Council England.

'Quarantaine' is Georgina Starr’s most ambitious film project to date. Its title refers to the French word for forty, and also alludes to the period of enforced isolation commonly known as quarantine. In Celtic mythology ‘une quarantaine’ begins on the first full moon of spring - a liminal and dangerous occasion when the barriers between the Earthly world and the Spirit world are temporarily dissolved.

Nimmo - It's Easier (2018)

Directed by Mike Glover
Choreography by Becky Namgauds

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