AN EXPERIMENTAL COLLECTIVE
Neema Bickersteth is one of the founding members, and the artistic producer of Moveable Beast - a Toronto-based collective of artists and musicians interested in examining through artistic means culturally diverse and hybrid identities. Here are the Moveable Beast projects she is currently engaged with:
CENTURY SONG
a journey through music and fine art over the past 100 years. CO-CREATED BY NEEMA BICKERSTETH, WITH CHOREOGRAPHER KATE ALTON AND theatre DIRECTOR ROSS MANSON. CEntury song is a partnership with volcano (Toronto) and has toured to three continents. |
TREEMONISHA
a radically new version of scott joplin's 1911 hybrid gospel rag blues opera. neema bickersteth is an artistic producer on the project, and singing the title role. MOVEABLE BEAST IS AN ASSOCIATE PRODUCER with Volcano (Toronto). |
BLACK PARIS
a project in development, by neema bickersteth: "Within Black Paris I want to look at the intersection of art song and jazz, the gardens that have been lost within my mothers’ histories, and the idea of collage – visual, musical, and philosophical."
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