Essential Viewing

Stroke survivors team up with professional dancers and musicians to perform themselves in Rosetta Life’s ground-breaking piece.  Choreographer Ben Duke.  Composer Orlando Gough.  UK tour autumn 2018.

Stroke Odysseys. Four consultant neurologists and a Rosetta Life artists explore neuroplasticity and the potential for creativity to heal the stroke damaged brain.

Linda, 40, decides to stop cancer treatment even though she knows that this will probably shorten her life. 100,000 views, and counting, on Youtube, across the world.

Rosetta Life at work. Lylia tells the mesmerising story of her Barra childhood to Rosetta Life’s Lucinda Jarrett. Capercaillie’s Donald Shaw transforms the memory into a haunting song. Performed by The Anna Massey Band. At Highland Hospice.

When John was young engine driver a steam loco ran over his foot and he lost five toes. They said it was his fault. There was no compensation.

A remarkable fusion of movement and poetry led by Sue who has motor neurone disease. Reinvents the concept of slow. With Myton Hospice.

Kimberley is severely disabled. She has no speech yet she is profoundly musical in the face serious neurological damage.

How can the simple act of drinking require such care and attention? Ask Collette who finds it hard to hold a cup. Composed by Orlando Gough for Rosetta Life’s The Mariners.

The doll goes diving into the depth’s of Muriel’s dreams, where she rides a glorious white horse in the face of death. Composed by Orlando Gough for Rosetta Life’s The Mariners.

Pelussy performs a contact dance with Moreno Solenas. Stroke Odysseys creative workshop, 2016.

Redefining Beauty dance performance by older people, inspired by pioneering Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition at the V&A.

Lil was disabled by a stroke but she dreams able-bodied. Stroke Odysseys performance sharing, 2016.

Wheelchair football is liberating for the Duchene Muscular Dystrophy community. Watch out for Taja’s amazing rap. Accompanied by musicians from the CBSO and a choir from Joseph Leckie Community College in Walsall, Bradley and Taja tell it how it is. Composer Harvey Brough.

Cath was Andrew’s carer for 12 years but one day she realised she just couldn’t go on. She told Andrew she was leaving, for someone else. He was devastated at first. But then he began to see things differently. Perhaps some good could come out of this tough situation?