Rosana Cade is a Glasgow-based live performance artist. They are known mainly for their queer, feminist and activist approaches to work. They are notable for winning the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards 2016, for Physical/Visual Theatre with Cock and Bull, and has toured work to The National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre and international venues including Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, Frascati, Amsterdam and Kwai Fong Theatre, Hong Kong.[1]
Rosana Cade | |
|---|---|
| Education | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland |
| Awards | Edinburgh Festival Fringe Award |
Life
editCade studied BA (hons) Contemporary Performance Practice at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, class of 2011. Rosana co-founded//BUZZCUT// festival, a collaboration creating experimental events for live performance.[2]
In 2016 Cade was announced as Artist in Residence at The Marlborough Theatre in Brighton.
Key works
editWalking:Holding
editCommissioned in 2011, Walking:Holding is an experiential live performance that involves one audience member at a time. An audience member is guided through a planned route, holding hands with different people. The performance was created through 'holding hands experiments' in Glasgow with couples, of different ages, sexualities and races, and aims to challenge prejudices, with the experience of walking in someone else's shoes — or hands.[1]
Cade's performance roots lies in the experience of lesbian, gay and bisexual people.[3] Walking:Holding's audience members are local participants who range in age, gender, race, sexuality and background.[3] Walking: Holding foregrounds their sexuality [4] and strives to align their work with both the terms ‘queer’ and ‘lesbian'[4]
The Making of Pinocchio (Cade & MacAskill)
editCade collaborated with their partner Ivor MacAskill to create The Making of Pinocchio, which was described by The Guardian as "a funny, clever and thoughtful two-hander, rich in playful imagery and direct-to-camera asides, about identity, definition and acceptance."[5] The performance was featured in festivals such as LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) and Take Me Somewhere (Glasgow).[6]
Academic articles
editWalking:Holding has been discussed in academic articles and book chapters, including:
- Rauch, Bill; Carey, Alison (2016). Svich, Caridad (ed.). Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field. Theatre Communications Group. ISBN 9781559368643.
- Mullan, Sarah (2021). "Post-lesbian? Gendering Queer Performance Research". In Clare, David; McDonagh, Fiona; Nakase, Justine (eds.). The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volume 2 (1992-2016). Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781800858596.
Other works
editSister has been developed in association with The Arches, and with support from the National Theatre Studio and Battersea Arts Centre. It premiered at Behaviour 2014 and is part of the Made in Scotland Showcase.[7]
Awards
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Rosana Cade". Jerwood Arts. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ "Rosana Cade". National Theatre of Scotland. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ a b Cade, Rosana (18 August 2016). "The radical art of holding hands with strangers". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ a b Mullan, Sarah (March 2015). "Post-lesbian? Gendering Queer Performance Research". Theatre Research International. 40 (1): 100–103. doi:10.1017/S0307883314000649. ISSN 0307-8833.
- ^ Fisher, Mark (24 May 2021). "Take Me Somewhere review – the wondrous trans tale of Pinocchio". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ "The Making of Pinocchio". Artsadmin. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ BWW News Desk. "Amy and Rosana Cade: SISTER Shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2014, Now thru Aug 24". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ "artsadmin.com". artsadmin.com. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ "News: All The Edinburgh Fringe 2016 Award Winners". Beyond The Joke. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ London, Artsadmin Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street. "Artists' Bursary Scheme". Artsadmin. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
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