ecology

Locator 34 SUBSTRATE

  April 2-5, 2026 For SUBSTRATE we return to the ancient wooded and rocky landscape of Tycanol in north Pembrokeshire, west Wales. Join us for creative community; made through walking scores, moving and dreaming with Ordovician dolerite, with multiple species of rock and tree lichen, sessile oaks, whilst touching into deep time, ‘niching’ with outcrops & navigating a nighttime landscape. A substrate describes a physical surface or medium—such as rock, or plant—upon which organisms attach, grow, Read More

11 Jan 2026

Practicing Places – Upstream ’24

With/Gyda Simon Whitehead & Kirstie Simson    In this next iteration of Practicing Places, alongside collective studio practice we will spend time in the local Afon Cych and Dulais river catchment. Journeying upriver this time to explore the wider ecology of the valley and its mythical landscapes, we will immerse ourselves with the river’s course and its ecosystems. Learning ways to be in correspondence with its ongoing-ness, responding to its life forms and movements, we will lead practices Read More

2 Jul 2024

Ecosomatic Conversations Series

  I’m delighted to be a contributor to this series amongst some wonderful movers, makers and thinkers… The EcoSomatics Conversations Series invite sharing of engagement, practices and thinking around environmental awareness through embodiment activities, dance and art. It posits a definition of EcoSomatics as of the body-mind-ecology and takes the form of open public dialogues between two (or more) people: independent artists, practioners, and academics. The conversations take place online from 4-5.30pm. There is no fee Read More

30 Apr 2024

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

Stitching soft matter – Performance/workshop

Friday 24 February 1-6pm. (FREE) Atrium, The Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, University of Glasgow G11 6EW All welcome on a drop-in basis, stay as long as you wish… Movement artist Simon Whitehead, working with dance artists Neil Callaghan, Saffy Setohy and Joanna Young This performance/workshop is one of the outputs of Simon’s process of research-creation as part of his PhD (PaR) portfolio in The Department of Theatre Studies, University of Glasgow. Following the disruption Read More

13 Feb 2023

Locator essai

Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 2021 Vol. 12, No. 2, 285–295,   Click on link: 19443927.2021

20 Jan 2022