Tracey Boot

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

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ABOUT TRACEY BOOT

Originally from Scotland, Tracey is a drama graduate from the University of Manchester. Following her different encounters with specialists such as Jacques Lecoq and Donato Sartori she began to create her ow particular style of masked theatre. It is Tracey, artistic director of ThéâtreTransformations who gives the company its artistic value: she creates the masks, writes scenarios, acts or directs …. Latest creation: Betty Oops - 2013/2014 Betty is a nervous but endearing young woman. She likes the simple pleasures of life. But now her new office job starts to disrupt her safe and known universe. How will she juggle her amusements and her responsibilities? This show combines full-face mask, live music, text and mime. It’s humorous, poetic, and above all it exudes visual strength. Betty knits. It’s her favourite pleasure. She knits, she makes mistakes, she drops stitches and she gets wrapped up in her wool. oh what a tangled web she weaves! How like life, when we’re faced with choices, and don’t know which is the right one for our family and ourselves. Join us for an hour of thought-provoking theatre aimed at young people and adults facing similar conundrums: the pressures of responsibility, the difficult balance between work and the home, the heart and the head. After the show, discuss these questions with the performers, and explore the art of mask theatre. This show uses communication in many forms – French, English and invented languages … above all we use non-verbal communication. Pictures can say so much more than words. Betty Oops finds her way through these decisions with the help of archetypes of female identity: Mother Earth, Amazon, Virgin Girl, and by the force of dreams. So if you find these issues of career, balance and ambition hard to talk through with your family, Betty Oops will help you find other ways of expressing hopes, ambitions, fears and frustrations.