2014 – 2018 Stroke Odysseys

A culmination to the series of creative Stroke Odysseys workshops attended by the stroke performers.

Stroke survivors team up with professional dancers and musicians to perform themselves in Rosetta Life's ground-breaking piece.  Choreographer Ben Duke.  Composer Orlando Gough.  UK tour autumn 2018.

Four consultant neurologists and a Rosetta Life artist reflect on the impact of creativity on the stroke damaged brain's ability to heal itself - neuroplasticity.  Set against Rosetta Life's  evolving Stroke Odysseys performance project - 2013-2019.

Stroke Odysseys participants perform to an invited audience at the Barbican Open Lab, Pit Theatre, supported by Rosetta Life artists. 8 June 2016

A song cycle developed with Orlando Gough and patients from Altnagelvin Chest Heart and Stroke Hospital Derry. Produced as part of Derry, City of Culture 2013.  For the full concert see www.strokeodysseys.org

Challenging the stigma of disability nationally.  With Arts Council support we worked with our Stroke Survivors,  composer Orlando Gough, choreographer Choreographer Ben Duke, musician Sarah Homer, filmmaker Magali Charrier, and singers, Melanie Pappenheim and Elizabeth Mansfield to test the feasibility of a performance featuring stroke survivors supported by professional performers that will tour England and Ireland in 2018.  

A window on to Stroke Odysseys creative workshops with stroke participants in Lambeth. A window on to Stroke Odysseys creative workshops with stroke participants in Lambeth

The beginning of Rosetta Life's stroke odyssey