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
A Micro-Festival for Everybody 13-15 September 2019. Abercych, the rivers Cych, Dulais and Teifi. Building on the success of past Maynard festivals, AfON celebrated the river, its confluences, its wider connections and fluid presence in the village of Abercych in the lower Teifi valley. Located performance, dance, film, wild swimming and workshops provided a platform for contemplation and activity around the ways that our rivers shape lives, bodies and identities. If a rivers movement and its Read More
12/13 October 2019 A symposium that imagined the movements of place- making, through dance practice. Happening over a weekend, there were dance film screenings, performance, talks & discussion, a twmpath, a breakfast conversation and a walk on sunday morning in Nefyn with archaeologist Ken Brasil. The symposium was open to all with an interest in the places we make, the lands that shape us and our bodies that move through them. Programme included dance and landscape Read More
Studies for Maynard is a meditation on dislocation; the always unfinished practices of making home and sheltering; referencing the biography of an embryo; the Apollo 9 mission; the territorial behaviour of ravens, the writings and walks of Rajah Shehadah and Starman by David Bowie. Home here is more than a place; it is a network of resonances, as fragile and changeable as weather. Resembling ephemeral line drawings, these studies emerge from gestures, voice, narratives and the Read More