Lipsync
The iPod generation mix music and performance to create the dramas that make up the soundtrack to our lives; both on stage and on the internet.
It’s easy enough to find regular lipsyncs on YouTube, but C&T’s vision for them is much more ambitious. Where most homegrown lipsyncs are just about singing along, C&T lipsyncs are different – we add weight and meaning.
By taking a song which has resonance and significance to them, young people working with C&T overlay their own meaning. Through this, the song reinforces the drama and the drama reframes the song, often with very moving results.
In schools we use the C&T lipsyncing process in a multiplicity of ways. We lipsync about social issues in PSHE, we lipsync in French and German in MFL, we lipsync in approaching Shakespeare in English, and we lipsync in the extended day. There are no limits.
Arts Council England made a short film about one group of lipsyncers near Bradford – see what they got out of it:
