Becca Carter and Claire Leith

The Duo

A collaborative duo, Carter & Leith have been collaborating on performance projects together for 3 years. The two combine performance art, postdramatic theatre, dance and music to create playful performances which give eccentric and queer offerings to new perspectives on political issues. We work in a multidisciplinary collaborative environment to bring together elements of disparate performance practices which play with the boundaries of performance. We follow our curiosities, shifting the normal and overlooked into the spectacular and remarkable, bringing newfound beauty and weight to unexpected perspectives in our world building. 

Carter & Leith make art to understand their place in the world, creating performance to explore and cope with life. They investigate political issues including intersectional feminism, ecology and queerness, and evaluate systems of living and structures of power. They explore these issues without attempting to find resolutions or conclusions, they instead explore the complicated nuance of these issues and offer alternative perspectives. 

We work eclectically exploring the bounds of materials, pop culture, playing with the literal in performance, game-based practices, tasks as performance, and applying dance practices to other forms of performance. We explore the performance space as a score, thinking about the composition of time and space to create poignant and playful experiences which are not guided by the traditional theatre principles of narrative or storytelling. Our combined practice is poetic and beautiful whilst being fun and playful, in a gentile anarchy. Recently our combined practice has been working with parties as both a concept and form, exploring the importance of dedicated time and space to gather and come together as a community and experience radical joy.