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general life

...don't cry

Site responsive Live Art performance

Stockwell Studios

London

Spring 2013

(no) rest in dove's piss

A site-responsive, improvisational music/performance installation

Cantieri Culturali della Zisa

Palermo, Sicily

works

meat. head. ache.

Live Art performance

Untouchable – The Musical

The Flying DutchmanLondon

never gonna give you up

Inter-disciplinary performance

using large-scale shadow play

Goldsmith’s College
London UK

Soundscape for dance piece
New Crossed Out Performance Event
Amersham Arms

Body modification performance and video. Concieved and created by David Khang.

Spring 2012
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Lesley begins at 2:09

(aka Earth Frequency Resonance

Entrainment Walkabout)

Participatory Live Art action

A440hz/New Forms Festival Vancouver 2007

New Crossed Out/[performance space]
London 2013. Available for booking.

what’s his name?

Single Channel Performance/VideoVIVO

Multi Channel Live Art Performance/Video

Commissioned by "Raised the Red Lantern"

W2 Media and Culture Lab,

required field*

Site-specific guerilla gardening

installation and social

Site specific Live Art action

General Life.org

the removed ground

Soundscape for improvisational dance performed by Kathryn Ricketts
Dramaturgy, Direction & Soundscape

Vancouver
Spring 2009

Performance/Video installation

HIVE 3/Leaky Heaven Circus

how do we live knowing?

Soundscape for live art performance.

Co-created with yogi Kevin Grodesky

Brief Encounters

an understanding of brown

Solo spoken word performance

Written, direct and performed by Lesley Ewen

Performed Canada, Czech Republic and Sicily.
Available for booking.

video editing

photography

Lesley is equipped and able to do basic short video projects: promo videos, archival and documentation videos.. She uses Final Cut Pro, a Macbook Pro (late 2013), and a Panasonic GH-2. She is especially good at cutting images to music

Lesley has an good eye for the small visual stories that are often overlooked. She is available to document theatre performances, social functions, film sets or for travel photography.

A psycho-geographic peripatetic approach to generating performance, action and happening. Over a 2 hour period participants explore and respond to a chosen location using their body, found material from the site, and individual, collaborative. (links to new window)

the house of strange loops

An anarcho-syndicalist drag family performance troupe. Instigated by DIckie Beau at the National Theatre Studio

London, ongoing

these tender alms

these tender alms is the first piece collectively created by Lesley Ewen and Catherine Hoffmann working together as a newly formed collaborative duo crisis + denial

London, ongoing. Available for booking.

every black diva

At Home with the House of Strange Loops

Bethnal Green Working Mens Club Feb 14, 2016

An opportunity to contemplate the differential between the accepted black female body of the musical Diva and the unaccepted voice of the black female public intellectual.

Available for booking.

the queer playwright

for Q2Q Roundtable: The Queer Playwright

A Symposium on Queer Performance & Theatre

SFU Woodward’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Co-sponsored by Simon Fraser University

and the frank theatre company

June 20 - 24, 2016