Helen Caddick: Women Make Music
Helen Caddick’s Amphora is an opera of Dadaist passion and choreographed fashion, inspired by the astonishing art and poetry of Jean Arp (1886-1966) and his love for the artist-dancer Sophie Taeuber, his collaborator and muse. After Sophie’s premature death, Arp tore up and reassembled some of their work so that he could once again create with her. Amphora continues this collaboration by fusing Arp’s words with music by Helen Caddick, costume by Swiss couturier Martina Trottmann and choreography by Kamala Devam.
Helen Caddick is a south London born composer, songwriter and arranger whose passion and interest in all genres of the arts has inspired her work. Chosen as a top pick favourite in The Musician Spring 2018, her work Amphora received its London premiere at this year’s Tête à Tête: the opera festival, generously supported by PRS Foundation’s Women in Music. The world premiere of Amphora took place at Turner Contemporary, Margate to coincide with the opening of the Arp: Poetry of forms exhibition in October 2017 supported by Arts Council England and Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work has featured on Resonance FM, BBC 3’s Late Junction, SkyArts, Channel Radio, performed as part of Secret Southbank at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, across the UK and abroad.