excerpts
Drawing on styles that have inflected Roma music on its journey through the world, these are a selection of pieces from the full show. These pieces, and the full show, have also been arranged for an orchestra and choir.
the stopping place
The Stopping Place is a powerful large scale new music theatre work drawing on music of the Roma tradition staging the history of the Roma holocaust.
Pusomori and Kaven are half sisters born into the Romani community but now living in two very different worlds. Separated as teenagers Pusomori continues travelling while Kaven, who is 'poshrat' [a 'mixed blood' Romani]has settled. The ‘Big Halt’ has been called and gypsies are no longer permitted to travel. Kaven returns to the atchin tan but what price is she prepared to pay for being a sister, a daughter, a Romani?