Clod Ensemble

Red Ladies are on their way. Who are they and what do they want?

An undisclosed number of identically dressed women infiltrate the city with a series of mysterious, visually arresting interventions before rendezvousing in Purcell Room to perform their 'theatrical demonstration' in five movements.

They place world events – war, floods, migration – in the context of the everyday: they knit, they eat, they wait. Their movements echo the patterns of a flock of birds, a herd of bison, a swarm of bees.

Performed to an original score, featuring live drums and violin, Red Ladies is about connectivity, identity, community, complexity, transformation and love. A poetic investigation into the ways human beings and other animals behave when in groups.

Led by choreographer/director Suzy Willson and composer Paul Clark, Clod Ensemble 'are a shape-shifting, genre-straddling, media-mixing, experimental, experiential project-based performance group.' (The Guardian)