SB1 - Finding Folk performance

'Finding Folk'

At Open Source Arts, Leeds

This was an extremely intimate and raw performance which combined banjo, the fiddle, singing, flatfoot step dance and theatre. It was a true showcase of how you can combine the arts and powerfully communicate a story through different disciplines.

I have never and don't think I will ever experience anything quite the same as this.
There was about 10 of us sitting cross legged on the floor and whilst Phoebe very bravely opened herself up, guiding us through her father passing away, her mothers multi-personality disorder and how she lost some of her self, but how folk and dancing provided her happiness and out of depression. You were quite uncomfortable for most of the performance but it was because she was being so exposed.

She then asked the audience for their responses afterwards and we all really analysed and unpicked the technical. creative and story elements of the performance which made it even more open and impacting.

It was an incredible, unique and unsual performance. Truly inspiring multi discipled performance. Her take on combining music and dance and turning it into a piece of art.

I know Pheobe (she got me into flatfoot dancing) but feel like I really know her now. It was more powerful than an interview could be about her journey. The account was so personal, and there was not very many of us there at all. 
I feel that I have realised a lot about the power of art and it's communication.