Senior Curator and Producer, Theatre and Performance, V&A. Taylor Swift | Songbook Trail, DIVA; Alice Curiouser and Curiouser, Glastonbury, Opera, David Bowie
Joined August 2017
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'@V_and_A celebrates a century of national theatre archive with tribute to avid collector' theguardian.com/stage/articl… via @guardianstage
Taylor Swift | Songbook Trail @V_and_A opens 27th July - 8 September. Journey across the V&A celebrating @taylorswift13. 13 installations display objects from Taylor Swift archive in dialogue with V&A galleries and collections.@tompiperdesign @garethfrysound 🙏🫶
@V_and_A DIVA has opened at the House of Music in Budapest until 15 Sep 2024. The breathtakingly beautiful building by @soufujimoto is the perfect stage. Congratulations to all the teams 🤩 💫 #diva
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We had such a wonderful time performing at the @V_and_A Performance Festival on Friday night!
We launched our new visual music project Seeing through Sound, feat. the world premiere of Watchman, a work we commissioned from Barbara Monk Feldman inspired by Fra Angelico ✨
Looking forward to this performance by @marianconsort tonight as we kick off @V_and_A Performance Festival 🎭 Celebrating 100 years of the Theatre and Performance collection, with the theme 'remastered'. From making anew, to remixing the past and inspiring the future…💫
✨Join us at the @V_and_A next Friday as we launch Seeing through Sound!
Featuring music by des Prez, Dufay, Dunstable, and art by Crivelli, da Fabriano, della Robbia, and the world premiere of 'Watchman' by Barbara Monk Feldman, inspired by Fra Angelico.
marianconsort.co.uk/seeing-t…
We said goodbye to DIVA @V_and_A yesterday before its world tour. Thank you to all the divas who made it possible. And everyone who has been on the journey, front of house teams @NETAPORTER Tonwelt. Last curator tour here with @DJTrevorNelson 🙏🤩
Fabulous to talk all things DIVA with @Palomafaith @V_and_A Fearless Creativity! 🙏💫❤️
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A very busy few weeks ahead with The Glorification of Sadness fast approaching and today I’ll be talking at the V&A ! As everyone knows I do love to talk, so this will be a fun one for me hahaha
you can stream it at this link, starting at 7pm ! vam.ac.uk/event/XZwWMOWdDB/o…
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Maria Callas – the opera singer who put the D into Diva 🌟
The @RoyalOperaHouse’s Tour Guide Freyja visited our DIVA exhibition to tell the story of *that* iconic voice, on what would have been @MmeCallas 100th birthday #Callas100
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Celebrating Tina Turner’s birthday ❤️
To celebrate the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll on what would have been her 84th birthday, we invited Elesha Paul Moses from @TinaTheMusical to talk about her inspiring life and famous looks ✨ #tinaturner
The instinct to fill a void with art … Es Devlin and Ekow Eshun in conversation @V_and_A
A visionary, genre-defying artist and her beautiful monograph #AnAtlasofDevlin 💫
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Announcing our first exhibition at V&A East- The Music Is Black: a British Story - an immersive story about how Black British Music has shaped British culture, from jazz, calypso & reggae, to dub, drum n bass, & grime. Coming in 2025. Follow @vam_east for info/ updates
Immersive survey of Black British music to open V&A East museum in 2025 theguardian.com/music/2023/n…
Mesmerising performances @thenitinsawhney and special guests 🙏@RoyalAlbertHall - Journeys & Identity 🎶 ‘love letter to who we all are’ 💫
It was an absolute pleasure to listen to the DIVA podcast. So happy that you enjoyed the exhibition! 😊 Loving this month’s DIVA front cover. Fabulous synchronicity. thank you🙏💫🌈
Looking forward to discussing DIVA with Charlotte Jansen at Cheltenham Literature Festival tonight @cheltfestivals @V_and_A
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Édith Piaf, #DOTD 10 October 1963 🎙️
One of France's most popular singers, Piaf remains a part of modern French national identity. Her voice described by Jean Cocteau as 'like black velvet'.
🧵Piaf's black dress was chic and understated - accompanying her magnificent voice.
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The @V_and_A's Theatre and Performance podcast @theatrevoices is back! Listen to Episode One in our new season: 'Edinburgh Fringe: A Critical Roundup' with @FergusMorgan and @Arifa_Akbar theatrevoice.com/audio/edinb…
Inspiring day chairing discussions on Digital Revolution in Theatre @IteacEvents with @Charcoalblue @PreevueLtd @insoundvoice @TAITTowers @Theaterdigital @HKArtsFestival @NationalTheatre Immersive Storytelling, Gaming, Opera, BASE Jumping @ABBAVoyage 💫💫💫 #ITEAC2023
#ITEAC 2023 was a truly global event with live sessions taking place all over the world including Brisbane, London, Bogota and Hong Kong (pictured here).
You can log into the Digital Platform now to catch up on sessions.
iteac.info/
#Theatre #Arts #Architecture
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Hip hop is 50 today!
August 11th, 1973 is widely acknowledged as the date that rap music was ‘born’ in America. In the recreational room of the 1520 Sedgwick Avenue apartment block in the Bronx, New York [1/5]
📸Grandmaster Flash, Disco B, Junebug, Sweet G & unknown, c. 1980
ALT Photograph by Roosevelt Dmite Simmons of Grandmaster Flash, Disco B, Junebug, Sweet G and unknown woman, circa. 1980
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Celebrating the late, great icon Whitney Houston🎙️
Take a close-up look with New York-based designer @MarcBouwer at Houston’s glittering dress for the 1994 Grammy’s 🌟 #whitney60
On display in our DIVA exhibition ✨