SOLD by Ludus Dance

October 1998-March 2000

Purchase Sold Teaching Resources and Materials below

SOLD: Highlighting Child Labour

From fashion to sport to home furnishings, everyday items we covet and take for granted have been made using child labour. Iqbal Masih was 'sold' at the age of four to a carpet factory where he spent six years, working up to 16 hours a day, shackled to a loom. He was freed by activists and began his worldwide campaign on behalf of an exploited workforce, receiving international acclaim for highlighting the horrors of child labour. One day, whilst out riding his bicycle, he was shot and killed. He was 12 years old.

Inspired by Iqbal's life, SOLD is a high impact experience, 55 minutes of dance theatre tackling a theme we'd like to forget! Provocative, compulsive and uncompromising, SOLD will unravel the surprising history of your trainers and much more besides!

"The controversial subject of child labour is takled with passion and commitment ... multi-media images ... industrial 'nosebleed' techno dance music ... giving it a thoroughly slick and modern feel ... The effects and visual imagery ... get the adrenaline pumping ... This camp lesson is darkly humorous."
Ingrid Kent - The Visitor

Choreographer
Yael Flexer

Director & Writer
Deborah Barnard

Dancers and collaborators
Jason Bradley, Tamsin Dyke, (replaced by Jasper Marriott and Kate Mercer in 1999)
Cath Sims, Dylan Quinn

Composer/Musical Director
James Mackie

Associate Composers
Martyn Hughes, Ade Hughes, Mark Burford of Continuum at Lowfold Audio

Designer
Mandy Dike

Video
Mandy Dike and Martyn Hollingworth

Costumes
Anne Preston

Lighting Director/ Technical Stage Manager
Alan Jackson (replaced by James Wooldridge in 2000)

Street Dance Tutor
'Banksy'

Images and Media