Behind the scenes: Rehearsals

Fallibroome Academy Drama students took inspiration in the metamorphosis of the silk moth to create a giant collective cocoon.

Fallibroome Academy Drama students used hoops to represent various size of buttons and create interventions playing with perspective.

Fallibroome Academy students used live-360 video recording to test how their interventions would look from the audience point of view.

Fallibroome Academy Dance students created a mechanical dance inspired by threads pulled in a loom.

Fallibroome Academy Dance students created a ‘moth inspired’ dance, a piece for 4 performers.

Fallibroome Academy Dance students created  dance movement to represent the dynamics and hierarchy between the weavers in the mills.

A first version of the 360 video was presented at Macclesfield Treacle Market to gain viewers’ feedback.

There are still so many untold stories. Every day spent in Macclesfield talking to people leads to more encounters and opens new doors to this fascinating silk past…