2020-22 | Still Breathing

Partner Organisation:

Euton Daley's Unlock the Chains Collective

This project aims to connect Oxford researchers with an evolving performance project with local artists: Still Breathing. Writer/Director/Producer Euton Daley began work on this piece (part of a wider project) in response to the events of 2020. TORCH is facilitating a series of knowledge exchange activities including meetings with researchers, R&D performances, workshops and talks ahead of the premiere at Dancin' Oxford 2022. Still Breathing will form part of a new knowledge exchange project 'Finding Our Way' and will be performed at the Sheldonian Theatre in October 2022.

Still Breathing

Euton Daley’s

Unlock the Chains Collective

That fear of mistaken identity - Wrong place/wrong time.

Born in the wrong skin/colour. Evidently

2020 – a year of turmoil and chaos but one in which people and communities have rallied and come together. Still Breathing voice the fears, frustrations, fatigue and anger as yet another Black life is taken by the system that is there to protect. The project explores a sense of hopelessness, deja vu, resilience and a renewed spirit of hope in the struggles for equality, justice and freedom.

Unlock the Chains Collective make and produce theatre that explores the Black experience  through the fusion of dance, music, song and spoken word. This project is supported by Oxford Playhouse, The North Wall Arts Centre, Dancin’ Oxford and TORCH

Amantha Edmead - Performer

Amra Angie Anderson - Performer/Music Composition             

Ayo-Dele Edwards - Performer/Song composition

Amanda Selomey - Graphic Design

Euton Daley - Writer/Director/Producer

Fimber Bravo - Musician/Music composition

Derek James - Video/Film

Lati Saka - Performer/Choreography

Nicola Moses - Performer

Emmanuel Edwards - Composer

Nyron Levy - Performer

Ben Owora - Performer

Produced by Euton Daley for Unlock the Chains Collective

Euton Daley was a North Wall Propellor Artist for 2021