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I Become Part of It, Stories from
the Pre-World
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I Become Part of It
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| Sound recording, story; I Become Part of It, combined creation myths, poetry and ritual from North American First Nation Culture, New Guinea and South Africa told by The Company of Storytellers, with musical accompanyment by the artists, as an event organised by The International Association of Analytical Psychologists, in an unknown venue, in 1996. | |
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| Introduction by unidentified Master of Ceremonies, followed by story told by Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton. A story about love, power and creation. Ben Haggarty describes the piece as 'a conjectural imagining of the sort of mythology that the mesolithic inhabitants of pre-insular Britain would have heard'. The stories were selected after long discussions with archeaologists, anthropologists and ethnographers to establish the flora and fauna of Britain at that time, and what principle food stuffs were available. The artists then collected mythologies of parrallel cultures and made selections based on First Nation American mythology, with elements drawn from New Guinea and South African Xan bush-lore, and ideas held in European folk-lore such as Mother Goose. Programme notes for the piece describe it as being set at around 8,000 BC | |
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| The piece was orginally co-commissioned by Phoenix Arts, Leicester and The Eastern Arts New Commissions Fund, with financial support from Eastern Arts; Arts Council England; Phoenix Arts, Leicester; The King of Hearts, Norwich; East Midlands Arts and Leicestershire County Council. The piece was devised by The Company of Storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Pomme Clayton. Music was devised and composed by The Company of Storytellers, under the guidance of Will Menter. Vocal guidance was by Michelle George. Archaeological advice was provided by Jake Keen of the Ancient Technology Centre and Phil Harding. | |
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| audience:- | adult; International Association of Analytical Psychologists members |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 1 hour, 45 minutes, 18 seconds |
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| The Company of Storytellers at that time comprised Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton. | |
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| The Company of Storytellers (C.O.S.T) was formed in March/April 1985 with the expressed aim of performing storytelling for adult audiences. C.O.S.T was actually formed during a tour in East Anglia by Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton and Ben Haggarty. The official launch of COST was in 1986 at Common Stock Theatre, London. At this point the members of C.O.S.T were Sally Pomme Clayton, TUUP, Ben Haggarty, Daisy Keable, Hugh Lupton. However TUUP and Daisy Keable did not remain in the group and it is as a trio of storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, that C.O.S.T is publicly known. C.O.S.T was disbanded in 1999, but periodically reforms to perform the Three Snake Leaves. The two seminal pieces developed and performed by C.O.S.T were The Three Snake Leaves and I Become Part of It. | |
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| storytelling:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| storytelling:- |
Master of Ceremonies male |
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| origin:- |
South Africa
America, North
New Guinea
First Nation American Xan |
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| Image showing set of I Become Part of It, used to publicise performance | |
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England
1996 private performance: I Become Part of It |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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