Ashley’s Fit Up
Ashley’s Fit Up is an ever evolving musical-visual performance, initially created to fundraise money for Cressingham Gardens estate, a council housing estate like many others in London threatened by bulldozing and eviction.
The project proposes to dismantle the creative hegemonies that prevent artists and musicians from making together. It is an exercise in open ended collaboration that merges disciplines and develops the possibilities of play led performance.
Each show we've put on has been crafted from scratch, in direct response and conversation with the space we perform in. We make puppets, costumes and homemade instruments that act as prompts for a musical score that is developed and performed as part of a fluid core group, enabling non-linear narrative ideas to be played with, through a multidisciplinary assortment of contributors.
Like an archaeological dig, the group relies upon fragments of evidence in the form of found and abandoned materials, deconstructed musical language, folk stories and inter-historical social rituals to patchwork their ideas into a collective performance, that is in its nature intent on replacing archaic success narratives, with play and inclusivity
Members
Stella Pearce, Maddie Banwell, Arthur Bently, Clay Millner Russell, Anthony Boatwright, Clem Coles, Robin Finch Pickering, Grace Black...