Rosana Cade

Rosana Cade is a Glasgow based live performance artist. She is known mainly for her queer, feminist and activist approaches to her work. She is notable for winning the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards 2016, for Physical/Visual Theatre with Cock and Bull, and has toured work to The National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre and international venues including Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, Frascati, Amsterdam and Kwai Fong Theatre, Hong Kong.

Cade studied BA (hons) Contemporary Performance Practice at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, class of 2011. Cade Rosana co-founded //BUZZCUT//, a collaboration creating experimental events for live performance.

In 2016 Cade was announced as Artist in Residence at The Marlborough Theatre in Brighton.

Walking: Holding

Walking:Holding was commissioned in 2011, Walking:Holding is an experiential live performance that involves one audience member at a time. An audience member is guided through a planned route, holding hands with different people. The performance was created through 'holding hands experiments' in Glasgow with couples, of different ages, sexualities and races, this aims to challenge prejudices, with the experience of walking in someone else shoes- or hands.

Queer identity

Cade’s performance roots lies in the experience of lesbian, gay and bisexual people Walking: Holding's audience members are local participants who range in age, gender, race, sexuality and background. Walking: Holding foregrounds her sexualityand strives to align her work with both the terms ‘queer’ an ‘lesbian

This performance centres on the experiences of queer identities and lifestyles that are apparent within the city. It is an experiment into what happens when two strangers experience an intimate moment in public. Along with the approach on queer identity, the question of social diversity and cultural codes within each city is shared.

Academic articles

Walking: Holding has been discussed in academic articles and book chapters. These include:

• Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field: Caridad Svich
• Post-lesbian? Gendering Queer Performance Research: Sarah Mullan
• Traveling Light Through Transparency: Preliminary Materials For A Walkshopinar: Dr. Andrew Wilford

Sister has been developed in association with The Arches, and with support from the National Theatre Studio and Battersea Arts Centre. It premiered at Behaviour 2014 and is part of the Made in Scotland Showcase

• Athena Award via New Moves International for Walking:Holding in 2011
• (2016) Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards Physical/Visual Theatre Winner Cock and Bull, Athena Award for Walking:Holding 2011
• Artsadmin New Work Award 2014