Cricket Green
Cricket Green is a spectacular live music, theatre, and dance show that seamlessly blends classical Indian and contemporary Western dance forms to tell the story of Team Earth and Team Climate in a surreal game of cricket.
2023 to 2024
Team Earth vs Team Climate
The climate emergency is a global issue with acutely local implications. Implications of responsibility, risk and impact. It is driven by humans digging up and burning fossil fuels - namely coal, oil and gas. It will be solved by humans acting with care, compassion, courage and hope. Cricket Green is fuelled by the urgent need to safeguard nature in this time of climate crisis, a new game between Team Climate and Team Earth.
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- Balbir Singh, Artistic Director ”
Artistic growth comes from working out of one's comfort zone and we relish the challenge of bringing together the worlds of sport and environment through new conversations across the globe. Showing the importance and value of nature and our cherished bond with it, we’re exploring how we positively view the environment and how/why we celebrate and enjoy it to help emphasise its beauty with the unifying sport of cricket as the vehicle.
- Balbir Singh, Artistic Director ”
Performances at BD:Festival 2023
Day 1
Day 2 - Show 1
Day 2 - Show 2
Artists Interviews
Devika Rao
Lucy Haighton
Kade Ferraiolo
Taveesha Vashishta
Press
In the build up to the performances at BD:Festival 2023, Cricket Green received attention from numerous press outlets, highlighting BSDC’s approach to raising awareness about the current climate crisis. Click the logos below to read some of the articles.
Further Performances
Cricket Green has been reviewed and further developed for performances in various settings. Following its performance on Rural Touring such as at the Beverley Library, the new piece titled Indian Biscuits, Tea, and Cricket emerged.
Beverley Library
April Fire-Moon
Devika Rao
Ella Tighe
Giulia Castrato
Hitha Sasidharan
Jihan Belhoula
Kali Chandrasegaram
Leila Akers
Lucy Haighton
Madhura Godbole
Tammy Tsang
Tricia Arthur-Stubbs
Rebecca Pegg
Yamit Salazar
Arushi Salian
Aarushi Mallick
Aheli Pramanik
Anuja Rajwal
Preetha Kumar
Sangeetha Mohana Vallinayagam
Suhani Rao
Boinpally Sadhana
Darjipati Sheaa
Shetty Irukulla
Taveesha Vashishta
Aniruddha Mukherjee
Jesse Bannister
Joe Harris
Kenneth Higgins
Jane Morland
Balbir Singh
Cath Muldowney
Erin Cooper-Jones
Gavin Joynt
Malcolm Johnson