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Caroline Bowditch: Falling in Love with Frida, Lilian Baylis Studio

05 Oct 15 – 06 Oct 15, 20:00 mat Tuesday 15:30

The world-famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the inspiration for a piece of physical theatre and dance by disabled performance artist Caroline Bowditch.

By Teresa Guerreiro on 24/8/2015

Falling in Love with Frida
Falling in Love with Frida
Caroline Bowditch: Falling in Love with Frida, Lilian Baylis Studio Caroline Bowditch: Falling in Love with Frida, Lilian Baylis Studio Teresa Guerreiro
Australian-born Caroline Bowditch describes herself as a performer, maker, teacher, speaker and “mosquito buzzing in the ear of the UK arts establishment” – a clear indication, if one was needed, that her work is far from sedate and conventional.
Now based in Glasgow, Bowditch conceived Falling in Love with Frida as a tribute to the multi-faceted Mexican artist Frida Kahlo; and the piece comes to the Lilian Baylis studio fresh from the Edinburgh fringe, where it returned this year following a sell-out run and a Herald Angel Award last year.
The work delves into Frida Kahlo’s life as a disabled artist and a woman in thrall to an obsessive love for an immensely talented but difficult husband, the painter Diego Rivera.
Herself disabled, Caroline Bowditch has worked extensively with artists with a variety of physical limitations, as well mixed disabled and able-bodied groups, such as CanDoCo. She feels a natural affinity with Frida Khalo, whom she describes as “one of the finest women who lived.”
More than just a biographical work, though, Falling in Love with Frida is a set of reflections on being disabled, being an artist, what we reveal, but more importantly what we conceal; and whether we can control how we’re remembered and others’ memories of us.
If this sounds too heavy, it isn’t. Bowditch is a dab hand a mixing light and shadow, depth and humour. With her three fellow performers, whom she encouraged to connect with Kahlo’s work and find Frida, Bowditch performs both on and around a big yellow moveable table, all in vibrantly coloured costumes in a bright set inspired by the sunshine and folklore of Mexico.
The show mingles movement with speech, including erotic readings and lines such as ‘you drank to drown your sorrows but the damned things learned to swim.’ At one point the audience is invited to share in the work by drinking a shot of tequila.
This is, in short, a courageous work which starts from a specific point of view but then expands to appeal to a wide and varied audience.


Age guidance: 16+ (contains themes of an adult nature)


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What Caroline Bowditch: Falling in Love with Frida, Lilian Baylis Studio
Where Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN | MAP
Nearest tube Angel (underground)
When 05 Oct 15 – 06 Oct 15, 20:00 mat Tuesday 15:30
Price ££17
Website click here to book through the Sadlers's Wells website



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    Frida Kahlo

    Born in 1907 in Mexico City, Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico’s most emblematic painters, mixing Mexican culture and Amerindian cultural traditions in her work. She contracted polio at the age of six, and this left her with one leg thinner than the other, which she disguised by wearing long skirts. Aged 18 she was involved in a major bus accident which caused a number of serious injuries including a broken spine, leaving her in pain for the rest of her life. Khalo had a tempestuous marriage to the Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Best known for her self-portraits, she once said, “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.” She died in 1954, aged only 47.

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