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MOON-STAINED.
In Development. (2026)
Moon-Stained, currently in Research and Development, is a new original work of dance-theatre by choreographer and artistic director Olivia Wallis Jackson.
Designed for 4 women/non-binary performers, Moon-Stained explores the many betrayals of womanhood, combining mythological characters with real women’s stories to create a new layer of modern folklore. It explores themes of identity, betrayal, revenge, forgiveness, community & grief by intersecting stories of real people from immigrant, refugee, LGBTQIA & global majority backgrounds with well-known characters from mythology and folklore. Using Act 2 of Giselle & the characters of the Willis as a framework, Moon-Stained questions whose stories get told & who gets to do the telling.
This new work is in Research and Development as part of Olivia’s Mayflower Propel Associateship and will be created over a 20-month period with multiple phases occurring within this timeframe.
STASILAND.
(2025) Available for Booking.
STASILAND is a dance-theatre piece set in the shredded document ruins of East Germany. As we delve into a world of total surveillance where anxiety is the regime, poignant stories of connection and loss are revealed.
Through a series of choreographed vignettes audiences are immersed in the stories of East Germans living under the eye of the Stasi and their informants. Follow our characters as they discover, through the reconstruction of documents left in the wake of the former police state, the secrets of their own lives. While audiences begin as the surveillant, watching these stories unfold, they may soon get the sense that they too are being watched.
Inspired by the book Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder & designed in the round for audiences in Galleries, Libraries & Theatres.