Lina Lapelytė: Candy Shop – The Circus

Tickets £20 // Under 30 £6
Advance booking required

Lina Lapelytė voice / accordion / electronics
Angharad Davies voice / electronics
Anat Ben-David voice / electronics
Sharon Gal voice / zither
Nouria Bah voice
Rebecca Horrox voice / electronics
Anna De Mutiis drum kit

Jacob Hickson trombone
Holly Knaggs trumpet
Leo Pollitt tuba

Choir:
Michael Doyle
Matthew Dodd
Joseph Hornsby
Louis Sharpe
Charles Moscrop
Ed Kirker
Euan McGarr
Freddie Bosshard
Michael Nevin
Sam Ryan
Zac Smith

Lina Lapelytė concept / direction / composer
Federico Vladimir videographer

Producer: AC projects & Borealis festival

Lyrics: Akala ‘This is London’, MC Magic ‘Sexy Lady’, Run DMC ‘It’s Like That’, Snoop Dogg ‘Lodi Dodi’, Wiz Khalifa ‘Black and Yellow’ feat. Juicy J, Bingo Players ‘Get Up’, Public Enemy ‘You’re Gonna Get Yours’, Fabolous ‘Gone for the Winter’, Chief Keef ‘Nobody’, Akala ‘Electro Livin’’, 50 Cent ‘Candy Shop’

Lina Lapelytė (Lithuania, 1984)
Candy Shop – The Circus (2013 / 2015) 45’

Click here to view the programme note

Candy Shop is an ongoing and evolving work that encompasses a song, a conversation, an intervention, a provocation, an audition, and a dance class. Originally known as a popular rap hit by 50 Cent, Candy Shop – The Circus is a performance reworking the games of power that are embedded in rap songs into lullabies, narrating a story about beauty, gender and the mundane. This performance is an opera featuring seven women performers, a male choir, a woman drummer, a combination of hip-hop texts, electronics and video that invites for a collective meditation on power hierarchies.

Produced by hcmf// supported by Lithuanian Culture Institute and Music Information Centre Lithuania; also supported by Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

Image: Lina Lapelytė, Candy Shop- the Circus, Nomadic night at Cartier Foundation, part of Metamorphosis. Art in Europe Now, Paris