movement

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

locator 31 Touching the Earth

Locator Workshops Drawing

.          everything that we touch, touches us… In this workshop we will ground ourselves in the touch of this place- walking, moving, drifting, eating, fasting, swimming, drawing and thinking; through partner and group movement scores, small scale expeditions (day and night) we are led by the patterns of weather, land, sea, atmosphere and the other beings we encounter. A time of gentle resistance to productivity and a time to land within the inspired Read More

9 Jun 2023

TURN – a score for the long nights

  ‘The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.’ Virginia Woolf. January 18th. 1915. Turn towards the darkness As dusk arrives Turn off the lights, place a lighted candle in the window walk into the nighttime eventually, when the darkness has absorbed you, and you it, turn, walk back towards the candle light when you arrive, blow out the candle, move in the darkness- feel its Read More

7 Jan 2022

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