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| Cilla Vee - final performance - VIGIL: Prayers of Healing for the Living and the Dead. Photo: Fred Hatt |
Claire Elizabeth Barratt
VIGIL: Prayers of Healing for the Living and the Dead
A Year of Pandemic Performance
Presentation for the International Sacred Dance Guild
Sacred Sundays Series
March 14th 2021 at 7.30pm EST
Via Zoom
https://sacreddanceguild.org/events/
About The Project:
Claire Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla Vee) is an international inter-disciplinary artist from the UK, currently based in the Southern Appalachian town of Asheville NC.
In this past year of global pandemic, she has created a series of performance prayers for healing under the heading “VIGIL: Prayers of Healing for the Living and the Dead”.
The project originated through the New York arts organization Chashama’s “Enliven NYC” grant, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Six artists were chosen to inhabit six different storefront spaces in New York City for a one month residency where live performance was brought to the public in the safe situation of viewing through a storefront window.
In her Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront gallery location, Claire created the VIGIL series. 30 Prayers in 30 Days. Each prayer addressed a different aspect of healing – with a focus on the suffering and death caused by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter events and protests.
For this Sacred Sundays presentation, Claire will share her experience of the VIGIL project in NYC, as well as a subsequent development in her home base at the Asheville Art Museum entitled “Angel of Light”.
For a daily journal of her VIGIL in New York, you can go to: https://vigilprayersofhealing.blogspot.com/
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| Cilla Vee - installation for VIGIL: Prayers of Healing for the Living and the Dead. Photo: Juliette Buffard-Scalabre |
About The Artist:
Claire Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla Vee) is an international inter-disciplinary artist with a performing arts background. She is the director of Cilla Vee Life Arts – an arts organization with a focus on cross-media collaboration. Her work utilizes artistic disciplines of dance, movement, music, sound, text, media, visual arts, installation and performative action.
Claire has presented her work in venues as diverse as Jacob’s Pillow, the New York
Botanical Gardens, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center and Art Basel Miami.
She has performed and taught throughout the USA and in Canada, Europe, Japan, Israel and Pakistan.
Claire received her professional training in London at The Laban Centre For Movement and Dance and at the London Studio Centre For Performing Arts. Her pre-professional training includes the Royal Academy of Dance and the Royal Schools of Music examinations.
She also served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute for Creative Research with Plymouth University, UK.
On moving to the USA in 1992, Claire held the positions of Dancer for Unto These Hills drama on the Cherokee Indian Reservation and for Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater in North Carolina, as well as serving as a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and as Choreographer for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee.
Once based in New York in 2002, Claire founded Cilla Vee Life Arts and, with the support of arts advocates such as Chashama, Bronx Council on the Arts and Arts for Art, began to develop and present her signature modes of work – including Motion Sculpture Movement Installations and The Sound Of Movement projects.
She has received a number of awards, including project sponsorship from JP Morgan Chase, NYSCA and the NEA.
She is the creator of the Living Art pedagogy for performance, accredited by Plymouth University.
Claire now uses Asheville NC as her home base and tours frequently to connect and collaborate with a variety of international artists.
“My work as an artist blurs boundaries and crosses categories. Re-defining the traditional
concepts of a “piece” and challenging the conventions of performance, time, space and audience relationships.”
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