Benjamin Oliver
Without Barlines
Uprooted from the cracks of tarmac and fern flitches, the SOAPWORT slinks and glitches through liquid life, full-suds and fanciful. Dappled with dew and sewer stains, this windpuff-bonnet of folly-froth reigns and self-seeds in a world of wet concrete and weeds.
SOAPWORT was commissioned by Workers Union Ensemble Audience Commissioning Fund in 2021 and is an international dance and music collaboration between composer Ryan Latimer (UK-based) and dancer/performer/choreographer Jade Brider (Australia-based), with music performed by Workers Union Ensemble. Project co-produced by Ryan Latimer, Jade Brider and Anna Durance.
Workers Union Ensemble are delighted to give two performances of The Virus Within: Hearing HIV (2017-2018), the outcome of a collaboration between British Composer Award 2017 nominated composer/conductor Benjamin Oliver (University of Southampton) and leading virologist Dr Chad Swanson (King’s College London). This ‘top science/music mash-up’ and ‘structurally chaotic masterpiece’ explores HIV replication processed and how innovative ‘Shock and Kill’ treatments might provide a cure for HIV. Expect disjointe
Benjamin Oliver
Without Barlines