A changing selection of landmark films from the Rosetta Life story.
Choochi
A much loved cat called Choochi is all the more treasured during lockdown. Produced with a group of people living with the effects of a stroke in London, this film explores the challenges of lockdown and how our pets have helped us cope with its stresses. Music by Jules Maxwell.
I Look for the Think
Imagining life after stroke during lockdown. A 12 minute online opera from Rosetta Life Stroke Ambassadors and Garsington Opera Adult Community Company. Composer Orlando Gough. Libretto by Lucinda Jarrett and Chris Rawlence, from the words and experiences of the Stroke Community, who also perform.
Learn from Us
Thoughts about what matters in life from People living with Brain Injury. Produced in partnership with Headway West London, this film invites us to learn from those who have had their lives changed by brain injury, and to face a life with a pandemic with optimism and resilience. Song composed by Orlando Gough.
Through the Window
Produced and made with a group of people living with the effects of a stroke in North London, this film invites us simply to find a response to the pandemic by looking through the windows. Music made by Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian with recordings from all participants
Zig Zag
March 2020. Rosetta Life and Bristolians living with Stroke devise a show inspired by their stroke stories and perform it in on the Stroke of Bristol, Southmead, Hospital, and nearby Greenway Community Centre.
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The Stroke Ambassadors rehearse their new show for the Stroke Association Annual Conference in Telford, Dec 2019
Journey to a Word
Stroke Survivors share their personal journeys on the road to recovery through dance and song.
Dream a Difference
Royal Albert Hall, 18 March 2019. School children from across Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire connect chorally with young communities in Gaza, Damascus, Dhaka and Kampala. Composer and MD Hannah Conway, Director Karen Gillingham, Libretto by Lucinda Jarrett and Chris Rawlence from skypes with the global participants. A four minute clip.
The Stroke Ambassadors
Stroke Survivors tell how their lives have been transformed by joining the Stroke Odysseys project. Meet our proud Stroke Ambassadors advocating for life after stroke.
Healing the Brain – Stroke and Creativity
Stroke Odysseys. Four consultant neurologists and Rosetta Life artists explore neuroplasticity and the potential for creativity to heal the stroke damaged brain. People in recovery from stroke point the way.
Stroke Odysseys UK Tour
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.
Writing Lylia’s Song
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.
The Glass Half Full (18.00)
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.
3. The Accident (1:53)
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.
From the bedroom to bathroom, passing white owls in flight (5:25)
A remarkable fusion of movement and poetry led by Sue who has motor neurone disease. Reinvents the concept of slow. With Myton Hospice.
Pathways in the brain (3:46)
Kimberley is severely disabled. She has no speech yet she is profoundly musical in the face serious neurological damage.
6. Drinking without thinking (1:46)
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.
14. Muriel’s dream (2:40)
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 who dares (4:14)
Pelussy performs a contact dance with Moreno Solenas. Stroke Odysseys creative workshop, 2016.
Redefining beauty at the V&A (3:18)
Redefining Beauty dance performance by older people, inspired by pioneering Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition at the V&A.
I dream able-bodied (7:14)
Lil was disabled by a stroke but she dreams able-bodied. Stroke Odysseys performance sharing, 2016.
