David Bowie: You’re Not Alone transports visitors into the iconic performances, creative mind and spirit of one of the world’s most visionary and influential artists. Instead of magnifying the myth through the lens of his characters, the show focuses on the man behind the masks in an intimate and revealing self-portrait.
Produced by Lightroom and developed in collaboration with the David Bowie Estate, 59 has written, designed, and directed the show, and marks our fifth production for Lightroom, London.
Featuring Bowie as its sole voice, the show is constructed from hundreds of interviews spanning six decades. Combined with a mix of iconic and never-before-exhibited material, sound design and bespoke animation, the 360° projected film offers visitors an authentic, first-hand exploration of Bowie’s creative world, giving audiences the chance to feel they have travelled through time to experience Bowie in performance and conversation.
Drawing on a vast array of material from Bowie’s own archive, including performance footage, photography, drawings, lyrics, personal notes, and audio recordings, the project explores his philosophy and creative process, celebrating his status as a legendary performer. Structured in thematic chapters in a looping presentation, it reveals a lesser-known David Bowie – the provocateur, the polymath, the shapeshifting icon in his enduring, human form.
The result is an experience both intimate and epic, which puts audiences inside Bowie’s creative universe and celebrates his boundless curiosity as a force that connected people across continents and generations, as well as his enduring cultural impact today.
“ Rather than undermining his mystique, we designed a show to celebrate Bowie as a champion of human creativity – focusing on the message he expressed time and again: that art, in all its forms, is our best hope for understanding what it means to be alive.”
– Mark Grimmer, Writer of David Bowie: You’re Not Alone