Aletheia | Lizzie

Full performance

19:07

Black Studio · 12 May 2026

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The work

A practice-led solo in which body, Eos and projected image work together. Eos is a body of reused fabric, pieced together and weighing about 22 kg; its weight, friction, concealment and resistance shape how the movement develops.

Lizzie choreographed and performed the solo, and worked on its visual and sound material. Fabric construction, lighting and projection, and documentation involved collaborators.

The material

Eos

Eos is pieced and sewn from reused fabric into a single cloth, with an opening at its centre and openings for the arms. Its size and weight mean it does not simply follow the dancer.

Its weight has to be carried, its friction works against the body, and it can conceal the dancer entirely.

On a dark stage beneath a hanging projector, the dancer stands with head bowed, a large pale cloth gathered at the body and spreading far across the floor. — Promotional image, AI-assisted · after the recording at 13:45

The dancer holds the cloth up overhead with both hands, hiding the face, while the rest of it lies heaped on the floor. — Performance still · full recording at 16:15

In purple and green light the dancer crouches into the cloth, both hands working into its heavy folds. — Performance still · full recording at 08:25

Close view of the pale cloth lying in long folds on the stage floor, washed in green and violet projected light. — Promotional image, AI-assisted · after the recording at 08:25

The dancer sits fully covered by the pale cloth, which spreads out from the body across the floor in broad folds under violet and pale green light. — Promotional image, AI-assisted · after the recording at 10:55

Weight: approx.22 kg
Size of the cloth: about6 × 7.2 m

These conditions, and the resistance they create, are where the choreographic decisions come from.

Official teaser · 0:15 · projected visuals

Practice-led

Research within the work

How can a heavy, reused cloth shape movement through its weight, its friction and what it conceals?

Aletheia was developed as practice-led research during Lizzie’s master’s study, with a thesis written alongside the making. The question stayed in the studio: rehearsals were filmed and watched back, and movement, projected image and sound were revised in response.

A ring of ember and silver fibres hovering above a pale, rippled cloth landscape; the title Aletheia, the word Eos and the names of the five elements are set into the frame. — Projected visual material

Process archive

Original performance site

As published for the May 2026 showing, with its recording, credits and rehearsal timeline.

A wide dark stage with the dancer lying small at its centre, curled among the pale cloth. — Promotional image, AI-assisted · after the recording at 17:55

Credits

Creator & Performer: Lizzie
Music / Sound: Lizzie
Visual Material: Lizzie
Supervisor: Sarah Foster-Sproull
Technical Support: Sean Curham

AI-assisted generation: Suno for sound, Runway for visual material.

Eos was sewn with the help of Lizzie’s family and a textile workshop.

Image notes

The opening image, the cloth detail, the covered figure and the final far-stage image are AI-assisted promotional interpretations, each made with a frame of the full recording as its reference (13:45, 08:25, 10:55 and 17:55). They are not documentary photographs of the performance.

Two of the gallery images are unretouched frames of the full recording, Black Studio, 12 May 2026, at 08:25 and 16:15.

The player cover, the teaser and the research images are projected visual material made for the work: the cover is a frame of the official teaser at 0:10, the research images frames of an excerpt clip at 0:11 and of the teaser at 0:03. In the 0:11 frame the title and the names of the five elements are part of the image.