How to Wash a Heart
How to Wash a Heart aka MOTHER HEART is a multidisciplinary dance-theatre work created by Blue Pieta, inspired by Bhanu Kapil's T.S. Elliot Award-winning poetry book of the same title. The work was performed in collaboration with Kapil at The Place London, SohoPoly, and Cambridge University with award-winning dancer Samantha Hines, singer Kath Gifford and musicians benjin and Ynys Barnard Masterson
Combining visual art, dance, poetry and opera, How to Wash a Heart creates a waterfall through the organs that lead to the heart.
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A mannequin cut in half with strings in between it stands centre stage. Opera resurrects two dead bodies on the Day of Judgement, as they face themselves and the Divine. The poet Bhanu Kapil reads the story of an immigrant guest and a citizen host from her T. S Elliot Prize-winning book How to Wash a Heart in which the heart is cut out of the body and affixed to the sky.​ And you are invited to lie between these two worlds and dream.
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CREDITS
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Director, Scenographer, Musical-Director, Performer: BLUE PIETA
Poet: BHANU KAPIL
Dancer: SAMANTHA HINES
Singer/Sound-design: KATH GIFFORD
Musician: benjin
Musician: YNYS BARNARD-MASTERSON
