movement

Mentoring – Creative companionship

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Creative Companionship (an opportunity to lean in, to find support for your practice at this time…) I am currently offering a process of one to one, or small group mentoring and creative companionship for artists at all stages of their working lives. This includes dialogue through relational movement practice in different landscapes, plus embodied approaches to working and moving with the material realism of a place/ecosystem. We will be able to develop a bespoke process, responsive to the Read More

11 Jan 2022

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

Locator

Locator has evolved as a way to share practice in community. We attempt to cultivate a sensory porosity to the influence of things and the life of ecosystems. Through movement we sensitise to their generous affect and make them familiar to us.

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