Acting Lessons

Sheepwoman takes a break during the shooting of her new film and listens to a piece of wood for some acting advice.  


 Photograph by Aixa Sacco, 

New Collaboration in Progress

Sheepwoman is dancing in her pyjamas on the set of her new film.   Written, produced and directed in collaboration with Aixa Sacco and Joao Vilnei here at Homebase Residency, Berlin.

Watch this space to hear more about this brand new, collaboration.

Sheepwoman at K77 Hoffest 22 June 2013

If you were to look carefully amongst the party revellers last night, Sheepwoman could be seen handing out golden thread to the children and adults celebrating 21 years of artistic community living on Kastanienallee.

Home to LichtBlick Kino, a ceramic studio and dance studio famous for it's history of contact improvisation, and to the large group of people who have made this place home over the past twenty years. 

The many young children were very gentle with sheepwoman, stroking her face with leaves, and handing her rose petals in exchange for golden thread; a midsummers exchange.

Thankyou you to Leopold, Nina and Richard for inviting Sheepwoman to such a special place, a shining example of Berlin communal living and a place that has withstood the many changes  and challenges the squat scene has been through since the 1990's.

Sheepwoman was very touched by the beautiful young man she encountered, he gathered up her golden thread and gently wrapped the thread around her hands, momentarily caught in her web as the moon shone down, and the music played.  If only she could see him again!

Thankyou to Aixa Sacco for taking these photographs.

You do not know it yet, but what is missing from your party is Sheepwoman with a golden thread.

                       

For magical moments at your party contact philippajeffery@gmail.com

Rot Beige

This photograph taken by Christoph Neumann documents a rehearsal for "Seven" a new piece in development whilst here at Homebase Residency, Berlin. 

"Seven" was made in collaboration with Joseph Patricio in response to an invitation to make a performative work in the basement of the old Engelhardt brewery on Thulestrasse in Pankow.  The performance was shown during the month of performance art in Berlin.

 

The work  attempts to take the audience of one on a journey across a threshold and into the world of the collective unconscious.  

Selected by a guide in a sheep mask, seven people one at a time, are led through a dark tunnel, sweeping the way with a broom, sheepman crosses a darkened room leading to a smaller inner sanctum.    

A woman seated on a white chair at a white table holds a black book in her hand and invites her guest to be seated.  A candle lit encounter takes place, the sharing of stories perhaps real, perhaps imagined.  Stories of life and death are shared:  a woman who had been living with a dead body in her house for 21 years.  The discovery of a secret room and a very thin man with the key.   A visit to Einstein's laboratory which causes the body to break down into sub-atomic particles.  The ability to spin straw into gold,  the size and weight of the soul, and the sheep cafe were amongst the stories, shared and encountered in the dark basement.

The Alchemistic Cabaret

 In a tangle of red thread sheepwoman was seen last night at the alchemistic cabaret.