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

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

Re-pair 1.03.21

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

1 Mar 2021