Rosana Cade
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Rosana Cade is a Glasgow-based live performance artist. They are known mainly for their queer, feminist and activist approaches to work. They are notable for winning the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards 2016, for Physical/Visual Theatre with Cock and Bull, and has toured work to The National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre and international venues including Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, Frascati, Amsterdam and Kwai Fong Theatre, Hong Kong.{{Cite web|url=https://jerwoodarts.org/projects/rosana-cade/|title=Rosana Cade|website=Jerwood Arts|access-date=2019-01-31}}
Life
Cade studied BA (hons) Contemporary Performance Practice at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, class of 2011. Rosana co-founded//BUZZCUT// festival, a collaboration creating experimental events for live performance.{{Cite web |title=Rosana Cade |url=https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/profile/rosana-cade |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=National Theatre of Scotland |language=en-GB}}
In 2016 Cade was announced as Artist in Residence at The Marlborough Theatre in Brighton.
Key works
= ''Walking:Holding'' =
Commissioned in 2011, Walking:Holding is an experiential live performance that involves one audience member at a time. An audience member is guided through a planned route, holding hands with different people. The performance was created through 'holding hands experiments' in Glasgow with couples, of different ages, sexualities and races, and aims to challenge prejudices, with the experience of walking in someone else's shoes — or hands.
Cade's performance roots lies in the experience of lesbian, gay and bisexual people.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/18/radical-art-of-holding-hands-with-strangers-rosana-cade-walking-holding|title=The radical art of holding hands with strangers|last=Cade|first=Rosana|date=2016-08-18|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-01-31|issn=0261-3077}} Walking:Holding's audience members are local participants who range in age, gender, race, sexuality and background. Walking: Holding foregrounds their sexuality {{Cite journal|last=Mullan|first=Sarah|date=March 2015|title=Post-lesbian? Gendering Queer Performance Research|journal=Theatre Research International|volume=40|issue=1|pages=100–103|doi=10.1017/S0307883314000649|issn=0307-8833|doi-access=free}} and strives to align their work with both the terms ‘queer’ and ‘lesbian'
= ''The Making of Pinocchio'' (Cade & MacAskill) =
Cade collaborated with their partner Ivor MacAskill to create The Making of Pinocchio, which was described by The Guardian as "a funny, clever and thoughtful two-hander, rich in playful imagery and direct-to-camera asides, about identity, definition and acceptance."{{Cite news |last=Fisher |first=Mark |date=2021-05-24 |title=Take Me Somewhere review – the wondrous trans tale of Pinocchio |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/may/24/take-me-somewhere-review-the-making-of-pinocchio-glasgow-festival |access-date=2023-03-16 |issn=0261-3077}} The performance was featured in festivals such as LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) and Take Me Somewhere (Glasgow).{{Cite web |title=The Making of Pinocchio |url=https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/project/the-making-of-pinocchio/ |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Artsadmin |language=en-GB}}
= Academic articles =
Walking:Holding has been discussed in academic articles and book chapters, including:
- {{cite book|title=Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field|editor-first=Caridad|editor-last=Svich|author1-first=Bill|author1-last=Rauch|author2-first=Alison|author2-last=Carey|publisher=Theatre Communications Group|year=2016|isbn=9781559368643}}
- {{cite book|chapter=Post-lesbian? Gendering Queer Performance Research|first=Sarah|last=Mullan|title=The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volume 2 (1992-2016)|editor1-first=David|editor1-last=Clare|editor2-first=Fiona|editor2-last=McDonagh|editor3-first=Justine|editor3-last=Nakase|publisher=Liverpool University Press|year=2021|isbn=9781800858596}}
Other works
Sister has been developed in association with The Arches, and with support from the National Theatre Studio and Battersea Arts Centre. It premiered at Behaviour 2014 and is part of the Made in Scotland Showcase.{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/article/Amy-and-Rosana-Cade-SISTER-to-Show-at-Edinburgh-Fringe-2014-Aug-1-24-20140731|title=Amy and Rosana Cade: SISTER Shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2014, Now thru Aug 24|author=BWW News Desk|website=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=2019-03-21}}
Awards
- Athena Award via New Moves International for Walking:Holding in 2011{{Cite web|url=http://artsadmin.com/|title=artsadmin.com|website=artsadmin.com|access-date=2019-01-31}}
- (2016) Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards Physical/Visual Theatre Winner Cock and Bull, Athena Award for Walking:Holding 2011{{Cite web|url=https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/3085/news-all-edinburgh-fringe-2016-award-winners|title=News: All The Edinburgh Fringe 2016 Award Winners|date=2016-08-31|website=Beyond The Joke|access-date=2019-03-21}}
- Artsadmin New Work Award 2014{{Cite web|url=http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/artist-development/awards-further-support/artists-bursary-scheme|title=Artists' Bursary Scheme|last=London|first=Artsadmin Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street|website=Artsadmin|access-date=2019-02-21}}
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Category:21st-century Scottish actresses
Category:Scottish stage actresses
Category:British LGBTQ actresses
Category:Scottish performance artists