These Things Aren’t Mine
Gabbie Cook and Barney White
Tickets sold through the Traverse Theatre's Box Office
Date and Time
13 February at 6pm
Venue
Traverse Theatre
Address
Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge St, Edinburgh EH1 2ED
Duration
Film: 40 minutes, Q&A: 40 minutes
Price
£10/£8
Accessibility
This screening carries Closed Captions [CC].
The venue has level access, and all spaces are Wheelchair Accessible. There is an accessible toilet on the lower ground floor of the building, in the bar area.
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Content Warning
These Things Aren’t Mine features one scene with strobing.
Themes of PTSD and hyper vigilance
Rating
12+
Premiere
Scottish Premiere
Directed by Barney White and written in collaboration with former gymnast turned circus artist Gabbie Cook, These Things Aren’t Mine is a visceral, abstract and emotive exploration into the psyche of an ex-child athlete living with PTSD and hyper vigilance.
The ambition for These Things Aren’t Mine is to explore the impacts that abuse in childhood elite training environments can have on adult life; the invasions of physical and emotional space, imbalances of power that ripple through day to day life in both personal and professional environments, where victims often feel powerless to tell their stories and with little support available if they do.
Presented through abstract, poetic imagery, the film explores the day-to-day effects of living with trauma; to give voice, physicality and visibility to these experiences, and the process of how healing begins.
A 40 minute Q&A with Gabbie Cook and Barney White, led by Emily Nicholl, will follow the film. This Q&A will explore the artists’ process in making the film and delve deeper into some of the subjects explored.
Gabbie Cook will also deliver an Acrodance workshop as part of the festival.
A note from Gabbie Cook
The title These Things Aren’t Mine came about because, as far as my memory stretches, I have lived with a tension in my body which was created by someone else.
These Things Aren’t Mine is a very necessary opportunity to honour my experience, turning something traumatic into something creative; allowing me to publicly take hold of the narrative and tell it how I experienced it. We need to make this film because I wish someone had made it when I was little. It is ultimately a hopeful narrative about recovery, and a call for accountability.
Biography
Gabbie Cook is a dance and circus artist who works as a performer, teacher, director, and movement director.
She is specialised in contemporary dance, acrobatics, and Chinese pole, and has more than 10 years stage experience. She has recently been nominated for ‘best female circus artist’ by the IVC Valencian Performing Arts Awards.
Throughout her career she has worked for a variety of Dance, Circus and Physical Theatre companies covering a broad spectrum of performance genres. She has toured work nationally and internationally for theatre audiences, street theatre festivals and under the circus big top at Glastonbury and Shambala Festival.
Her personal work has been presented at Glastonbury Festival, Bristol Circus City, Circarte (Alicante) and The Lowry. Other projects include co-directing and starring in feature length film These Things Aren’t Mine in collaboration with Barney White which premiered at Bristol Circus City 2023. She is also currently developing an immersive multi-disciplinary solo Girl with a Curl.
Her acrodance and Chinese pole workshops have been requested by several higher-education institutions and professional companies such as; 2Faced Dance, NoFit State Circus, TripSpace, Accademia Dimitri (Switzerland), Institut de Teatre (Barcelona), CREAT (Valencia), Movement Andalusi (Granada) and Mimbre.
Barney White is a filmmaker, photographer and performer based in London.
Trained in theatre, dance and acrobatics, his work is focused on visual storytelling and how we can use art to reflect on and communicate shared stories of how we exist in the world.
As co-founder and Creative Director of acrobatic theatre company Acrojou, Barney has spent the last 17 years creating, performing and touring original work across the UK and internationally, including at The V&A, Royal Opera House and The National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts (Taiwan). Through this work he developed a passion for storytelling and artistic collaboration – working with circus artists, dancers, actors, musicians and visual artists.
Driven by a passion for both performance and cinema, Barney now uses film and photography to explore stories of human experience through the meeting of bodies, light and space.
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