QUIXOTIC
WHO WE ARE
We are London-based artists, set designers, musicians and a composer who met and hit it off during a London Sinfonietta/Central School of St Martins commission for the London Sinfonietta's one-day festival, New Music Show 2. We were asked to create collaborative works as part of 'Hidden', a series of intimate solo performances taking place in the secret backstage spaces of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and after critical acclaim of our world premiere performance, we decided to take our artistic bubble to new heights.
We bring together our different areas of expertise, passions and creativity to create works that aim to challenge, inspire and immerse audiences in mul- ti-sensory experiences. Combining interdependent visuals, sound and media, we create cross-art/cross-cutural performance installations that alter the experiencer's sense of reality.
BUSHRA EL-TURK
The award-winning young composer Bushra El-Turk's music of '...ironic...', '...arresting...' and 'limitless imagination' forebears the influence of her Lebanese roots and straddles Eastern and Western idioms all the while leaning towards the absurd and the theatrical. Bushra's music has been both performed and broadcast on radio and television in the UK and globally. These include pieces being performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Royal Opera House, Opera Holland Park, Manchester Camerata, Orchestre National de Lorraine (France), the multi-ethnic Atlas Ensemble (Holland).
For more information, please visit her website: www.bushraelturk.com
MIRANDA FULLEYLOVE
Whether feverishly deciphering contemporary music still wet upon the page, or performing music ranging over the last 4 centuries, Miranda Fulleylove is equally at home on both baroque and modern violin/viola. As leader of the Music Theatre Wales Ensemble, she is continuously active in contemporary music-theatre and brand-new chamber opera. She also performs and records regularly as a principal player and guest leader with both the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the resident ensembles of the South Bank Centre in London. She tours and records all over the world and gives frequent performances in Europe and the USA with solo dancers.
JACK IRVING
Jack Irving is a production designer and creative maniac. From a young age he always had a passion for theatre and music and loves to create theatrical story telling spectacles. His love for technology combined with music drives his ethos within design. Having worked on many production designs for large scale musicals and plays he finds it’s amazing to work with Quixotic Collective to be able to push boundaries within contemporary classical music combined with awe inspiring theatrically. My future aspirations are to work on large-scale concert spectacles and west end musicals exploring the design possibilities within various genres of music! “Lets create something EPIC”
PHILIPPINE LAUREAU
After studying Graphic Design and Fine Art in Paris, She is a designer graduated from a BA (Honors) in Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins in London. She designs various pieces and performances using a whole range of different media including installation, costume and immersive performances, as well as video, which she is particularly keen on. She is always looking for new challenges. Pasionate about travels, and people, curious and open minded she is always pushing her creativity out of the box.
for more information you can visit her website HERE
SYLVANA LAUTIER
She is a French performance artist based in London. She studied Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins. Coming from a background in which paintings, photography and theatre are mixed together. She is always looking to create a connection from the set, costume and video to a performance. She is always trying to push the boundaries of any media and the expectation of the audience. She is imagining, creating, writing performances meaningful using a multidisciplinary approach to respond to nowadays subject and her own experiences to feel alive!
TRACY TING
Having a background of studying Performance Design and Practice in Central StMartins, Tracy invents imaginative and resourceful technical stages, costumes, lighting and experimental designs, especially for performances and events. As a performer of dance and music from the age of 3, events, festivals and performances have always been her greatest passion which brought her starting to involve all kinds of productions in various content.