dance

Locator 27- Tender is the Night

RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP 13-17th April 2018 Tycanol, Pembrokeshire, Wales/ Cymru tender is the night… is an immersion in the liminal transitions that lead into darkness and from darkness back into light. There are ways that movement reveals the darkness as an ecological resource, rather than a domain of distrust. How might our dark adaptive physiology be accessed and attended to through dance practice? This workshop introduces physical practices and scores that invite a tender engagement with the night Read More

9 Feb 2018

En darken

‘The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best the future can be, i think.’ Virginia Wolf 1915. I am embarking on some new work this winter, in a domain that continues to intrigue me. En darken is an enquiry into the human implications of the disappearing phenomena of darkness. How might performance, specifically dance practice, reveal the darkness as ecological resource? and how might an ecology of embodied practice be developed as a Read More

18 Jan 2018

About

Simon Whitehead is a movement artist living with his family in rural west Wales. His practice is improvisatory, in response to the circumstances he finds himself in he makes work that moves in correspondence with land, materials and beings. He begins with, and re-turns to the motile materiality of the body and its agency amongst an assemblage of other forces, flows and matter. He is a maker that moves and has been practicing this relationally-focussed work for Read More

2 Oct 2015