Simon Whitehead

Practicing Places (shawling): A movement and making workshop

With Kirstie Simson and Simon Whitehead Practicing Places 2025 (shawling) With Kirstie Simson and Simon Whitehead 21 – 25 July, 2025 (in person) Cwm Cych, west Wales. We have called our work together Practicing Places. This collaboration has been developed as an intensive movement workshop each summer since 2017 in the small village of Abercych in rural Pembrokeshire. Each workshop lasts 4 days and participants are accommodated in the village and surrounding area. Based on the premise that Read More

3 Mar 2025 | Browse: dance, forest, making, materials, movement, shawl, west wales

Becoming Lichen – R & D project

To touch lichen is to touch something that pre-exists our human lifetimes, peer closely and you see that they are all distinctly and mysteriously themselves, made up of many collaborating lifeforms. Crustose, Foliose, Fruticose – lichens thrive everywhere, on buildings, trees, rocks, road signs and gravestones. As a movement artist, I’m interested in how the slow growth of lichens, their symbiosis and adherence to the earth might inform gentle movement, inner meditative practices and cultivate soft Read More

20 Nov 2024 | Browse: become, dance, field recordings, lichen, listen, walk

Locator 32: Becoming Lichen

‘Lichen has much to teach us about our relationship to the environment and our place within a living world…this little organism with its incredible life force invites a new vision (on a new scale), a new ecology.’ Vincent Zonka (2023) During Locator 32 we will spend time in one of the most diverse lichen ecosystems in Wales and the UK. How might we learn of bodily/ interspecies collaboration and creative community from these mysterious and Read More

24 Sep 2024 | Browse: dance, lichen, locator, Tycanol, workshop

Practicing Places – Upstream ’24

With/Gyda Simon Whitehead & Kirstie Simson In this next iteration of Practicing Places, alongside collective studio practice we will spend time in the local Afon Cych and Dulais river catchment. Journeying upriver this time to explore the wider ecology of the valley and its mythical landscapes, we will immerse ourselves with the river’s course and its ecosystems. Learning ways to be in correspondence with its ongoing-ness, responding to its life forms and movements, we will lead practices Read More

2 Jul 2024 | Browse: Afon, dance, ecology, landscape, performance, river, scores

Ecosomatic Conversations Series

I’m delighted to be a contributor to this series amongst some wonderful movers, makers and thinkers… The EcoSomatics Conversations Series invite sharing of engagement, practices and thinking around environmental awareness through embodiment activities, dance and art. It posits a definition of EcoSomatics as of the body-mind-ecology and takes the form of open public dialogues between two (or more) people: independent artists, practioners, and academics. The conversations take place online from 4-5.30pm. There is no fee Read More

30 Apr 2024 | Browse: dance, ecology, future, growing, tenderness

Locator Scores ’24

The second in an annual series of online/in situ workshops taking place on Zoom, Thursdays for 2 weeks; February 29th and March 7th, 10am-Midday. £12 per session, or £20 for both 29 February Homing’s; 7 March Ecologies of Touch Each session will last for approximately 2 hours. Beginning with a collective preparation we will participate in a movement score together. The scores will predominately take the form of a drift (nondeterminate, the focus of a drift is to allow yourself to be guided by the elements, Read More

2 Feb 2024 | Browse: choreographic scores, dance, workshop, zoom