Geneva Foster Gluck

MILKWOOD RODEO

In 2010 I spent three months living and performing with the Rajmahal Circus, a traditional Indian circus traveling between Mumbai and Pondicherry. I was hired through a social-circus initiative to replace the tiger act which had recently been banned.  Mixing live animation, autobiographical text, and archived video footage Milkwood Rodeo tells a haunting, sad and surreal story of corruption, magic and the celestial worlds shared between India's Holy men and Hollywood.  

Live video projections: Jean-Christophe Nicolas

Direction, Set Design, Costumes, Choreography, Archival Video and Performance: Geneva Foster Gluck

Developed with the support of Arts Council England and a Camden Roundhouse Artist Residency. Produced by Sugar Beast Circus.

Performed at the Royal Opera House - The Firsts, London 2011• Circomedia, Bristol, 2011• Circus Fest / The Roundhouse, London, 2010 • Solar Culture Arts space Arizona, 2010 • Shunt Lounge London, 2009 • Jackson’s Lane, London 2009 • Bristol Do Bristol Old Vic, 2009 • NEXT International Festival of Arts, Lille, France, 2010