Contagion
Contagion was a new work launched in September 2018 by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance which commemorates the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, that killed more people than the First World War itself. The piece is inspired by the nature and spread of the flu virus, the unseen enemy that mankind was battling within, while engaging in more conventional warfare in the world outside. The striking work of the Austrian artist Egon Schiele, who fell victim to the Spanish flu, forms a visual footnote to the piece.
The performance at The Great Hall in Winchester was live streamed via You Tube on Sunday 23rd September 2018, directed by Terry Braun with digital support from Flying Object.
- Concept, Choreography & Direction
- Shobana Jeyasingh
- Set & Costume Design
- Merle Hensel
- Lighting Design
- Yaron Abulafia
- Video Design
- Nina Dunn
- Composer
- Graeme Miller
- Direction of Live Stream
- Terry Braun
- Digital Partner
- Flying Object
- Production Manager
- Richard Owen
- Sound Engineer
- Fred de Faye
- Rehearsal Directors
- Claire Cunningham & Ruth Voon
- Dancer
- Avatâra Ayuso
- Dancer
- Catarina Carvalho
- Dancer
- Vânia Doutel Vaz
- Dancer
- Sunbee Han
- Dancer
- Rachel Maybank
- Dancer
- Estela Merlos
- Dancer
- Emily Pottage
- Dancer
- Ruth Voon
- Funded & Supported by
- Contagion was co-commissioned by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary, with support from the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund, and from the Department for Culture Media and Sport.