After graduating in Fine Art at Bretton Hall College Eelyn Lee co-founded Sacred Cow, a performance group making devised, site-specific theatre in old mills and warehouses in Bradford.
Following a funded research trip to study visual theatre in Poland, Sacred Cow were supported by Yorkshire Arts to make Fool's Gold, a piece of work exploring the falling icons of the cold war.
Their second piece, Dashing Away with a Carving Knife, also supported by Yorkshire Arts explored the medical model of the female body.
In 1992 Sacred Cow received funding to study the performing arts of South India in Kerala.
Above Image from Fool's Gold
Top Image from Dashing Away with a Carving Knife
Ancestral Futures - A Street Procession in SheffieldThursday, 15 August 2024
Ancestral Futures 源流之後 is a processional street performance in honour of the first recorded Chinese people in Sheffield –a group of magicians on tour from China who performed at the Whitsuntide Festival, 1855.
On 31st May, 1855, the lead magician, Teh Kwei 德貴, buried his 5-week old baby in a Sheffield graveyard.... Read More...
Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 Exhibition ReviewMonday, 22 January 2024
' Four Quadrants of the Sky employs mythology as a tool that is both fantastical and particular, to think expansively and interconnectedly—a mythological trans-local. It is an intellectual, theoretical and political work, and also a magical, gorgeous one.' - Emma Bolland. Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 reviewed in Corridor 8. Read the... Read More...
Four Quadrants of the Sky Exhibition Opens 14th SeptMonday, 28 August 2023
Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 completes the second cycle of Performing Identities, an... Read More...