Rosana Cade

Rosana Cade is a Glasgow-based live performance artist. They are known mainly for their queer, feminist and activist approaches to work. They are notable for winning the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards 2016, for Physical/Visual Theatre with Cock and Bull, and has toured work to The National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre and international venues including Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, Frascati, Amsterdam and Kwai Fong Theatre, Hong Kong.

Life Cade studied BA (hons) Contemporary Performance Practice at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, class of 2011. Rosana co-founded//BUZZCUT// festival, a collaboration creating experimental events for live performance.

In 2016 Cade was announced as Artist in Residence at The Marlborough Theatre in Brighton.

Key works

Walking:Holding Commissioned in 2011, Walking:Holding is an experiential live performance that involves one audience member at a time. An audience member is guided through a planned route, holding hands with different people. The performance was created through 'holding hands experiments' in Glasgow with couples, of different ages, sexualities and races, and aims to challenge prejudices, with the experience of walking in someone else's shoes — or hands. Walking:Holding'''s audience members are local participants who range in age, gender, race, sexuality and background. and strives to align their work with both the terms ‘queer’ and ‘lesbian' The performance was featured in festivals such as LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) and Take Me Somewhere (Glasgow).

Academic articles Walking:Holding has been discussed in academic articles and book chapters, including:

Other works Sister has been developed in association with The Arches, and with support from the National Theatre Studio and Battersea Arts Centre. It premiered at Behaviour 2014 and is part of the Made in Scotland Showcase.

Awards

Athena Award via New Moves International for Walking:Holding in 2011 (2016) Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards Physical/Visual Theatre Winner Cock and Bull, Athena Award for Walking:Holding'' 2011 Artsadmin New Work Award 2014