Livia Rita: Dystopia Wetlands
‘Livia Rita carefully crafts her own utopian universe … Nothing is impossible in Livia’s expansive body of work’
Weaving spells through tender melodies and earthy beats, the emerging avant-pop artist and alpine witch is joined by creatural dancers and a band for a live show.
Livia Rita entrances audiences through tender, siren-esque melodies in combination with earthy beats, feral movement and ethereal textures, creating a realm in which magic abounds and nature rebels.
Her debut album, Fuga Futura, is the cosmic gateway between this world and the next.
This live ritual explores mythology, ecology, community, love and vulnerability in order to awaken the otherness within, claiming the future as a space for reverie to thrive at the edge of existence.
A portal of transcendence is opening – queer utopias will unveil our superpowers, shifting our fears and desires. Livia Rita is forming an eclectic, genre-defying sound. Stretching beyond pop boundaries into a fluid post-everything era.
These internal outpourings will sing your mind into the future, beyond the apocalypse, where music is a source of fierce and fiery strength.
The band for this performance is Tom McLuckie, Dave Fluetsch, Livia Rita and Lua Jungck, and the dancers are Danni Spooner, Hannah Mason, Kassichana Okene-Jameson and Zara Sands.
Creatures: Ola Hincapie, Chanai, Yasmine Akim, Damsel Elysium, Aisha Kacie, Sophie Gouk, Catherine Winter, Gigi Grossi, Elix Toci, Meimei Yuguo, Kelly Mbarga, Elena Agouridou, Tina, Tin Wing, Evdokia Labropoulou, Zinong Zhang, Cloud.
Artistic direction: Livia Rita
Creature choreography: Valentina Ceschi
Choreographic support sessions: Eve Stainton
Dramaturgy: Orrow Bell
Production: Charlie Clark, Avantgardeners Productions
ArtFashion design: Livia Rita
ArtFashion atelier: Afroditi Anastopoulou, Ella Porter, Kezia Pullinger, Livia Rita, Lukas Heim and Sarah-Louise Renwick
Flowers: Alice McCabe
Scenography: Jack Needell, Ella Yolande and Livia Rita
Need to know
For ages 12+
Haze and flashing light effects are used during this performance.
Livia Rita: Dystopia Wetlands contains partial nudity.
Dates & times
Approximate run time: 1 hour 15 mins.
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