Snag – a movement workshop with Cai Tomos and Simon Whitehead on Harlech beach Saturday 9th April 11am-4.30pm Cai Tomos & Simon Whitehead have known each other for many years, they first met on Harlech beach in 1996 during a movement workshop that Simon was facilitating. In this new workshop they return to Harlech to share a recent collaborative practice, ‘Snag’. Snag has developed during the pandemic, it is a live process of moving in relationship Read More
Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 2021 Vol. 12, No. 2, 285–295, Click on link: 19443927.2021
Simon offers a process of one to one, or small group mentoring and creative companionship for artists at all stages of their working lives. He offers dialogue through relational movement practice in landscape, plus embodied approaches to working with materials and objects. You will be able to develop bespoke residency processes in dialogue with Simon, responsive to current preoccupations in your working practices. Activity might take the form of walks, scores, bodywork (Simon is a craniosacral therapist), Read More
The Re-pair videos are now available on youtube, 3 short films with dance artists Amaara Raheem and Joanna Young, Simon Ellis and Saffy Setohy, Jennifer Monson and Neil Callaghan. Made during lockdown in March and April 2021 the films provide a window into the dancers lives and their attempts to perform touch together in all the awkwardness, beauty and sadness of the times.
Re-pair As a way of experimenting with how dance can re-pair itself, this project asks 6 dancers from different parts of the world to pair with each other in order to re-think the analogue in the digital. Each dancer will be sent a score, emerging from the stitched gloves that I am making for the soft matter project (http://simonwhitehead.net/2020/05/07/soft-matter-process/) and asked to improvise with the objects that they will then share with the dancer they are paired with. Read More
‘Tectonic Skin: touching, receiving mingling. Whirling eddies of wind between my fingers. Eagles there soaring, surfing through the gaps between pronged fingers. Holding Absence. There is so much pleasure in awareness. There is so much pleasure in awareness. Ah.’