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Al Orange CV
Aerial Direction, Lighting Design, Sound Design and
Music, Filmmaking, Performance
2015
Aerial director and Projection Designer for ‘Care’ by Tangled Feet performed at
Watford Palace Theatre. The show was about the NHS following the
introduction of the Health and Social Care Act of 2012. It featured foy flying
and straps work in an immersive traverse production. Projected images of a
gathering flock of birds were used throughout the show, and were projected on
to the floor, the set and performers as a poetic representations of the
increasing exterior threats upon an already overstretched service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XhlDufhUM
Lighting and Projection Designer for “Kicking and Screaming’ by Tangled Feet.
North Eastern touring. This show was about the transition into parenthood and
the massive effect it can have on the lives of new parents. The show featured
projection and live camera feed onto the set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px1lhLA6iys
2014
Lighting designer for RandD of ‘Time’ by Mimbre Acrobats at La Breche
Creation Centre, Cherbourg. This was an investigation into the creative fusing
of projection and acrobatics.
Sound Designer and Graphic Designer for ‘The Sense of An Ending by’ Red Road
Dance Theatre. North East and London touring. This piece was a collection of
three solos created from stories of women of the North collected by Artistic
Director Nadia Ifkhtar.
https://vimeo.com/124352516
Sound and Lighting Designer for ‘The Ping Pong Table of Truth’. An Installation
created by Tangled Feet for the Croydon Fun Palace. An interactive one on
one experience drawn from the premise that when a person’s mind is
distracted by multi-tasking, they are more liable to tell the truth.
https://vimeo.com/116761205
Aerial Director, Composer and Sound Designer for ‘Burntwater’ by Tangled
Feet. A work commissioned by Transported Arts, to reflect the life and history
of Spalding Lincolnshire. The piece took place over two days in various
locations around the town and using the River Welland as a performance space
and link between the various elements of the journey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp5qqM7FB3M
Lighting Designer for ‘Riots’ by Southpaw Dance Company. National touring.
This piece was a response to increasing incidences of social unrest across the
globe.
https://vimeo.com/86629759
2013-2014
Aerial Director for ‘One Million’ by Tangled Feet. Large scale outdoor show on
the theme of Youth Unemployment, commissioned by Greenwich and Docklands
International Festival and performed in London and Brighton. The show
featured a mass cast of 80 participatory young performers alongside the
professional cast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLHS8Y_fztU
2013-2012
Lighting Designer for ‘Empress Stah in Space’ – Performance Art Piece
commissioned by Spill Festival. Performed at Dance East Ipswich and Soho
Theatre London.
Sound Designer for ‘Found’ by Zendeh. North East Touring. A cross-media
piece including dance, theatre and digital media, exploring what it means to
become lost and then to be found again.
Sound designer for ‘Inflation’ by Tangled Feet. A nationally touring outdoor
theatre show, which charted the history and economics behind the global
financial crisis of the early 21st Century. The show was performed on a bouncy
castle representing the instability of the financial markets.
https://vimeo.com/137008942
Sound designer for ‘SuperJohn’ by Firehouse Productions. Edinburgh Fringe and
National Touring. A Children’s Show about the power of the imagination.
2011
Aerial Director for ‘All That Is Solid Melts Into Air’ by Tangled Feet. South East
Touring outdoor theatre piece. The work explored the cycle of urban
regeneration and decay through 70 years of London history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA9bvsRc2Go
Aerial Director for ‘Mapping The City’ by Slung Low. City wide outdoor and
indoor theatrical journey across the city of Hull featuring three separate but
interwoven plays.
Lighting designer for ‘Optimism’ by Uncanny Theatre. National Touring. A
physical theatre and clown piece about the lengths we will go to to achieve
‘happiness’
https://vimeo.com/23583318
1994 – 2010
Exponential Aerial Theatre – An Internationally touring aerial theatre company
creating outdoor works for both daytime and nightime environments across the
UK and Europe.
Co-Founder. Aerial Director and Performer
Sound designer and composer of show music for all shows.
Lighting designer, Filmmaker and Projection Designer for later works.
Shows include
Deep Water – a three hour long site-specific promenade
installation/performance/participatory party and experience created in
collaboration with The Institute For Crazy Dancing and a team of 23 cross genre
artists. At the Yorkshire Waterways Museum.
The House of Sleeping Souls – multi media aerial performance
Queen of the Forest – a participatory ritual celebration performance for the
Sheffield Wood Fair
The Ice Pack – action packed night show about a gang of female jewel thieves
International Airspace – a fantastical flight with some very unusual flight
attendants
Tectonic – charting social tensions between different groups in society
Swimming in the Gene Pool – a comedic look at human cloning
Cloud 909 – the seven deadly sins as played out in cyberspace
Summit Fever – a clown show about mountaineering
Insomnia – a night in the life of the strange characters who come out at night
Fiesta – a celebration of the art of having fun
2005-2011
Off Schedule Films
Co-founder, Actor, director, camerawoman, editor, and composer for company
specialising in international improvised film-making projects, and dance and
circus for the camera.
2007-2009
RJC Dance – set, sound, lighting and AV design for ‘The Dancical’ and ‘Halo’
National and Rural touring. Physical performer in ‘Halo’.
Sound Designer for ‘Conference of the Birds’ by Faceless Theatre Company
Video facilitator and filmmaker For ‘Close to the Bone’ womens’ writing
project in association with The Word Hoard, Huddersfield
2004
Lighting Designer for ‘Operation Wonderland’ by Point Blank Theatre. National
Touring
2001-2002
Lighting Designer for ‘Medea’ and ‘Trojan Women’ by Actors of Dionysus.
National touring.
1993
Composer, Musical Director and Aerial Performer for ‘Ride of the Zoom Zoo
Spirits’ by Swamp Circus. National Touring.
1992
Composer and Aerial Performer for ‘Four Directions’ by Chimaera trapeze and
Fire Theatre.
Composer-in-Education for the Borough of North Tyneside
1983-1992
Musician in Bands including Toxic Shock, Thrilling, The Man Upstairs,
Rumblefish, Fuzzbox, Pout and The Gypsy Creams