A core group of dancers across East Sussex have created a network/collective to further work in the natural landscape. It comes out of an instinctive desire to dance in community, responding to, and relating with, the earth. We are looking for a deep ecology of moving, listening and witnessing our natural environment through the body. The work is a creative sourcing that brings resonance to our separate work as independent makers. Dancers in Landscape was instigated by Maggie Harvey and Clare Whistler
In this Mantroi blog I will include my own contributions.
Blossom Schema
In Spring 2011 I co-anchored ‘Blossom‘ with Clare Whistler.
documentation of my improvisation, I say I danced with a wild pear tree
Clare and I made paper blossoms, with words enclosed in their ‘stamen’ – for a ritual in which we dressed a budding tree, an offering to this beautiful place, to nature in a wider context…
Blossoms fall, creative energy released...
Blossom: flower from the root. Blow into the eye of the sky…
Please go to http://dancersinlandscape.blogspot.com/ for more about the network/collective as a whole and for others’ contributions
…and…
Some Collective Ideas
A core group that network and support each other with a commitment to dancing in nature. Towards performance, experiential, workshops, rituals. It is a creative sourcing, that brings resonance to our separate work as independent makers. It is about trust and generating depth. A sense of community. Witness and attention. Nourishment and ritual. A responsibility of learning about where we are in the environment. Sharing the wonderment of nature. The visceral experience. In nature you can’t go so far In – you have to have a dialogue with In and Out. How still one wants to be in nature, a desire to distill movement to stillness.
How to record the work: Photographers, film makers, sound artists, visual artists, writers. The group also using these methods of recording, writing and harvesting what has happened in between meetings as well.
Each Meeting: Different people in the group can hold each session. The session can reflect their practice and wishes. Seasonal Visits. To visit the same site (Bunces Barn) each season. Each person to choose site for their session. Inviting experts to inform the group. Botantists, ecologists, historians etc. Inviting other Dancers who work in Landscape to offer sessions
http://dancersinlandscape.blogspot.com/
