About Our Heroes: The SuperFan Club

Our Heroes: The Superfan Club is a dance theatre performance that invites audiences on a journey to find inspiration from their disabled heroes, performed by people living with the impact of brain injury.

An ensemble cast of eighteen each travel through a portal, where an imagined encounter with their disabled hero takes place.

Leslie finds Beethoven who brings rhythm and light. Jenny finds Marcus Garvey and her voice. Marek finds Helen Keller and gestures the language of the heart.

Our Heroes: The SuperFan Club is presented by Rosetta Life, the innovative arts and health charity.

Cast and Creatives

Cast: Christina Gyimeh (she/her), Pauline Boye (she/her), Lil Sullivan (she/her), Sean Carty (he/him), Laurie (he/him), Jenny Brown (she/her), Afsana Elanko (she/her), Niamh Dowling (she/her), Jen Chandler (she/her), Marek Dziurman (he/him), James Heather (he/him), Jawad Mohammed (he/him), Haide Rollo (she/her), Colin Gunter (he/him), Judy Adams (she/her), Leslie Smith (he/him), Eunice Williams (she/her), Zoe Douglas (she/ Her).

Producer: Susie Tate
Composer: Orlando Gough
Singer and Co-facilitator: Melanie Pappenheim
Lead Facilitator: Lucinda Jarrett
Animations and Projections Artist: Magali Charrier
Technical Director: Jack Hollywood
Costumes and Set: Michael Douglas
Access Lead: Claire Morgan

About Rosetta Life

Rosetta Life is an arts in health innovation charity, specialising in the role of performance as a transformational mechanism of change.

The arts organisation now wants to launch the first semi-professional disabled led performance arts company for people living with stroke and brain injury. With projections from Magali Charrier, composition from Orlando Gough and facilitation from leading devising practitioners Lucinda Jarrett and Melanie Pappenheim, this new work frames a journey made by eighteen people seeking ways to find meaning and identity.

Rosetta Life’s Stroke and Brain Odysseys has been cited as a case study of building community health. The new performance company will build a model of community health and drive local place-based impact through creativity.

www.rosettalife.org

Facebook: Rosetta Life
Instagram: @rosettalife_

Credits

Supported by Mark Leonard Trust, Rayne Foundation and City Bridge Trust

Additional Information

100,000 people in the UK experience stroke and its fallout each year while 120,000 –160,000 individuals are admitted to hospital annually with traumatic brain injuries. It is a leading cause of disability in the UK.

For more on Stroke Odysseys and rehabilitation see: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35277410/
For more on SHAPER see: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/shaper
For more on the WHO ICF model see:
https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/international-classification-of-functioning-disability-and-health