Rosana Cade

Commissioned in 2011, Walking:Holding is an experiential live performance that involves one audience member at a time. An audience member is guided through a planned route, holding hands with different people. The performance was created through 'holding hands experiments' in Glasgow with couples, of different ages, sexualities and races, and aims to challenge prejudices, with the experience of walking in someone else's shoes — or hands.[1]

Cade's performance roots lies in the experience of lesbian, gay and bisexual people.[3] Walking:Holding's audience members are local participants who range in age, gender, race, sexuality and background.[3] Walking: Holding foregrounds their sexuality [4] and strives to align their work with both the terms ‘queer’ and ‘lesbian'[4]

Cade collaborated with their partner Ivor MacAskill to create The Making of Pinocchio, which was described by The Guardian as "a funny, clever and thoughtful two-hander, rich in playful imagery and direct-to-camera asides, about identity, definition and acceptance."[5] The performance was featured in festivals such as LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) and Take Me Somewhere (Glasgow).[6]

Walking:Holding has been discussed in academic articles and book chapters, including:

• Rauch, Bill; Carey, Alison (2016). Svich, Caridad (ed.). Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field. Theatre Communications Group. ISBN 9781559368643.
• Mullan, Sarah (2021). "Post-lesbian? Gendering Queer Performance Research". In Clare, David; McDonagh, Fiona; Nakase, Justine (eds.). The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volume 2 (1992-2016). Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781800858596.