
Corridor
is a performance company set up by Geraldine Pilgrim in 2000 to create
site-specific performances and installations in unusual buildings often with
young people, older people and arts and community groups working alongside
professional practitioners. Through this method the participants are enabled
to learn by doing within a supportive environment.
Artistic Director, Geraldine Pilgrim, was Artistic Director of Hesitate and Demonstrate, a touring visual theatre company funded by the Arts Council and the British Council. She has extensive experience in managing and artistic directing, devising and designing large-scale site-specific projects and theatre based productions liaising with producers and funders, local councils and businesses and working with artists and young people as placements and performing participants.
Previous work includes:
2000 Hotel Corridor's
first event, in the disused art deco Midland Grand Hotel on Morecambe Bay.
Lancashire, supported by Lancashire Council, Lancaster Arts and Events, Wimbledon
School of Art and The University of Lancaster.
2003 SPA in the empty Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital,
Euston, London
Funders included
Arts Council England, RALP, Foundation Sports and Arts, John Lyons Trust Camden
and Islington Councils.
2005 Deep End in the empty Marshall Street Baths Soho Funders
included ACE, Awards for All, Westminster Council, Wimbledon College of Art
and Central School of Speech and Drama.
The template of Corridor's style of work is that of young people, older people
and arts and community groups working alongside professional practitioners,
to transform empty buildings through light, sound, installation, dance, music,
video and performance into all encompassing events.
The audience promenade around the buildings (with strict timing so they never
meet), becoming an integral part of the performance imagery. Throughout the
performance, the gradual revealing of different layers of memories and atmospheres
that have built up over the years, together with the history - imagined and
real - of the space; like the peeling away of different layers of wall paper,
to release the ghost of the buildings past whilst being aware of its present
condition and dreaming of its future.






Photography © Sheila Burnett