Performer Name: Krystal S. Lowe

Show Name: Mud Pies

Show Description

Mud Pies will take you on a joyful and freeing exploration . . . of soil! Mud Pies is a reclamation of green spaces and all the wellbeing they hold for us. It’s a revolt against “act like a lady” being used as a synonym for clean, quiet, and gentle. Mud Pies is a call to get messy, be loud, and fearlessly explore the beautiful green spaces that weave throughout this land. In the hills of Blaen Brân I spent the day rediscovering and reclaiming my freedom in green spaces. Using dance, video footage, and soil I’ll share this exploration with you. Through this intimate and dynamic display of physicality, Mud Pies will share the journey one woman takes, using the physicality of gardening and exploration of the green spaces surrounding her, to learn how mess and mistakes are essential to wellbeing, self-love, and freedom.

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Pre-recorded Audio Description available through website link on audiences' own devices.
Can bring our own lighting if needed. Mud Pies can be lit in a wide range of ways depending on the space.
Staging: 7m x 7m Performance Space Set: Six 15kg bags of soil to be poured on stage Duration: 55 hour (no interval) Get IN: 2 hours Touring company: 1 performer, 1 technical stage manager Get OUT: 2 hours Audio: QLab system provided by the company. Studio PA system required. Video: Screen needed for video
Yes. Digital promotional materials available. Photos and trailer.
"Krystal S. Lowe is a Bermuda-born, Wales-based dancer, choreographer, writer, and director performing and creating dance theatre works for stage, public space, and film that explore themes of intersectional identity, mental health and wellbeing, and empowerment to challenge herself and audiences toward introspection and social change. Krystal is passionate about integrating access and exploring multilingual work with a specific focus on British Sign Language, Welsh, and English. She has an extensive career performing and touring with Ballet Cymru throughout the United Kingdom, China and Bermuda; with Citrus Arts circus company, Ransack Dance, Theatr Iolo, The Successors of the Mandingue, and Laku Neg. As a freelance, self-producing artist she has performed for the National Gallery for 'HOME zero' created by: Love Ssega, commissioned by Nesta and National Gallery X and Music Theatre Wales Opera for Screen ‘Somehow’. Throughout her career, Krystal has been supported, through funding and commissions, by Arts Council Wales, Bermuda Arts Council, Ballet Cymru, Theatr Iolo, Ffilm Cymru, Clwstwr, Music Theatre Wales, National Theatre Wales, National Dance Company Wales, National Dance Foundation of Bermuda, and Wales Arts International. "