As we see all the time in pop music, good things happen when styles collide. Perhaps there have been others before her, but Shona Cowie is the first performer I have seen to fuse traditional storytelling with the physical theatre techniques of Jacques Lecoq.
On the one hand, hers is a once-upon-a-time world of superstition and creepy events; on the other, it involves a high-precision gestural technique that gives shape to every thought. She takes us to a 17th-century tale of Ayrshire witchcraft even as she makes use of PowerPoint presentations and improvised music. [READ MORE]