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emilyn claid, The Trembling Forest, 2025. Dance International Glasgow, Tramway. Photo by Brian Hartley.
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The Trembling Foresta Live Art Ballet, 2025Summer 2025 Update: We hope to tour The Trembling Forest in Autumn 2026 and Spring 2027 to venues in the UK and abroad. Please direct any enquiries to producing@futureritual.co.uk
Turn your face towards the tombstone blues of left over time, forever, nowhere, nothing time, the crumbling perpetual of graveyards and ashes. Step lightly into long time, still time. Turn up the music and begin a slow dance. Welcome the pale grey, the shivering grey of a longed-for landscape, cold, silent, beautiful, like snow on hills under a darkening sky. Connect with me here, embrace me there, enmeshed, in a dance of twists and turns, like the underground roots of a trembling forest.
Suggesting an embrace of decay as a queer metaphor for letting go of fixed conventions of normativity, The Trembling Forest evokes a macabre, surreal, grotesque and beautiful world, where life force and death drive intertwine.
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The process of working with the Chorus, who are drawn from queer publics local to the venue, is at the heart of the work.
Undressed, painted with clay slip, the Chorus remain onstage throughout as a decaying, interconnected forest, into which the band of professional performers are drawn.
emilyn claid, The Trembling Forest, 2025. Dance International Glasgow, Tramway. Photo by Brian Hartley.
emilyn claid, The Trembling Forest, 2025. Future Ritual: CEREMONY. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou.
The Trembling Forest is choreographed and directed by emilyn claid and devised in collaboration with Azara, Eve Stainton, Martin O’Brien, Ming and Orrow Bell.
Design by Shanti Freed
Sound design by Lottie Poulet
Lighting design by Rachel Shipp
Performances
Future Ritual: CEREMONY - 23 & 24 April 2025
Dance International Glasgow - 10 May 2025
The Trembling Forest has been produced by Future Ritual, London and co- commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre and Future Ritual. The project is supported by Arts Council England and Knotenpunkt, with further support given by The Place, Rose Choreographic School and Queen Mary University of London.
The Trembling Forest is produced by Future Ritual. Enquiries: producing@futureritual.co.uk