Sunday 2 December 2018. 10am- 7pm Canolfan Pentre Ifan, Pembrokeshire. Wales/ Cymru, SONS is a workshops celebrating the season, the landscape and the boy, alongside his parents. For a Father or Mother and their Son (aged 7 -12years) Simon facilitates the group to explore the woodland and each other through a combination of working outdoors and inside the studio. Past events have included making dens, tracking animals, walking along riverbeds, playing in the dark, building and Read More
In 2009 i developed PINGS with sound artist Barnaby Oliver, a year long process of live performance exchange from our respective local rivers in west Wales and Melbourne, Australia. Approaching the river as an unbroken body of water through which we corresponded weekly, we used the web as an interface for public engagement. We were supported by an Artsadmin bursary and at the end of the process we met in person to perform together in Cardiff Read More
We will inhabit a night time space together, working at intervals both indoors and outwards through the sleeping city. ‘All-nighter’ will be a workshop that takes the frame of the nocturnal city. Beginning at dusk, we will share food and begin movement and somatic explorations that prepare us to navigate the city as darkness falls. Working with practices of drifting, witnessing and the collecting of found materials, we will then return to the space to work Read More
http:// On July 5th 2018 we shared ideas and practices as part of a small event at PEAK, Crickhowell. It was a balmy evening and after a talk and shared food we continued late into the evening darkness through the town, meadows, sports fields and river Usk. Thank you to all those who came along and took part with enthusiasm. Here is a short video document of the physical work, made by Stefhan Caddick. And thanks Read More
Endarken progressed through the Spring with 2 public events. One at Poppit sands and one on Manorbier beach, with shared propositions to those gathered to work together through the falling darkness with some prepared objects. Hazel rods cut in the winter in our garden, ends painted with clay paint, to reflect any light…They are curious things, they tangle, create their own structure, seem to have magnetic qualities, and they appear to glow as the light fades. Read More
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