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A site specific piece: Rooted re-Routed is a collaboration combining tap dance, live music, poetry and voice.

A commission layering feet, voice, breath and beats for Leap Festival 2019, performed at the metropolitan cathedral, Liverpool.

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Rooted re-Routed

First made: 2019

Concept & Direction: Hannah Ballard
Sound & Music: Karen Wynne
Performers: Hannah Ballard, Daniela B Larsen, Lauren Tucker

‘Rooted-re-routed’ is concerned with rhythm, connection to the earth, time and space.  A cross-art collaborative approach, a sound artist and movement artist layer rhythms of feet, voice, breath, drums and a loop pedal.

“We vibrate to that primordial rhythm even before we have ears to hear…We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother’s blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother”.  Layne Redmond ‘When the drummers were women’

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A wonderful collaboration of music, poetry and dance. It was moving, mesmerizing and captivating.

— Audience feedback, Leap Festival

Previous Performances

Oct 2019 Leap Festival Fringe, Liverpool