A Call to Home St Austell
shallal
Saturday, 18 June 2022
Looking back on the week...
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
Midsummer Dance - advertising
from our good friends Lois and Sam an exciting evening of dance not to be missed...
Midsummer Dance
What
happens when you bring exciting, independent dance artists together to
collaborate and make new work?
Choreography that pulses with the energy of Midsummer.
We are delighted to share that Midsummer Dance is making a return to Sterts on Sat June 25th, 7.30pm.
Midsummer Dance is an evening of dance, spoken word and creativity. A collection of solo and group performances, curated by Dance Centred and set on the unique moorland stage of Sterts Theatre. Midsummer has its ancient traditions firmly rooted on Bodmin Moor and each dance artist brings their own contemporary interpretation Including:
PlĂ©yades… Pleiades by Gocha Mendible - inspired by the indigenous Latin America culture of summer solstice, a transitional time from sun to drought to rain and the effects on the individual and collective.
Cresendo by Lois Taylor in collaboration with the dancers – a response to the buzz from earth to sky of midsummer.
Song of the Golden Dragon by Sapphire Sumpter - a moment of breaking free from our old selves, shedding the winter skin we have outgrown, to burst out into the unknown.
Curious Creature: Lois Taylor in collaboration with the dancers – Bold, colourful, sassy like the peak of summer.
Co-Director Lois Taylor says “ after a long 2 years we are thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate with other artists and share our work with a live audience. ”
Sterts is a fabulous 400 seat Amphitheatre nestled on the side of Bodmin moor and protected by a large canopy for all weather. We invite you to feast with us, by bringing your Midsummer picnic, or purchasing refreshments on site to celebrate the Summer Solstice.
Book tickets now:
Midsummer Dance 25th June, 7.30pm, Sterts Theatre.
Sterts Theatre 01579 363282 https://tickets.sterts.co.uk/sales/genres/theatre/midsummer-dance---dance-center/ticket
Choreographer Profiles
Lois Taylor - national and international touring performer, artistic director and choreographer for Attik Dance, dance lecturer at Falmouth University and co-founder Dance Centred with Sam Lawrence. www.dancecentred.co.uk
Gocha Mendible –performer and teacher across Venezuela, now based in Cornwall and sharing her love of Dance, Yoga and Pilates through choreography performance and teaching. https://www.gochawellness.com/
Kane John Mills - ****Theatre & Spoken Word Artist [Facilitator, Maker/Choreographer, Director, Performer, & Writer] based in Plymouth and collaborating with a range of artists and community partners to share and inspire. https://www.instagram.com/kane_john_mills/?hl=en
Sapphire Sumpter – after training at Rambert Trained, her dance artist work includes: Collaborative exploratory work with musicians and filmmakers and a commission to choreograph a full length work for AMICI Dance Theatre company under the mentorship of Wolfgang Stange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKO0RPolfWo
Shallal Dance – We are delighted that Shallal dancers will open the evening with their own response to midsummer https://shallal.org/shallal-dance-theatre
Performers: Huck New, Suryan Hall, Sam Lawrence, Kane John Mills, Sally Robins, Lois Taylor, Gocha Mendible and Sapphire Sumpter
Monday, 30 May 2022
Underworld Exhibition, A Call to Home, Blue Light Day and Trevors Tribute Tea Dance coming soon!
I've been trawling through trying to find a photo of Trevor, after making our newsletter, getting ready to be on half term holiday, winding down.
Shallal has expanded and we are embracing that at our next AGM where we hope to start to bring in the whole Shallal participating community as voting members ( at present the voting members are the people in Shallal Dance Theatre).
It's nostalgic trawling back through Facebook photographs, and i need to share some highlights
first the one i was searching for, which was hidden here on the blog in 2014, not on FB!, :
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Trevor happy surrounded by beautiful women! |
Onto the important externals...
Looking forward to Shallal Studios
Yesterday Anna updated our poster for 'A Call to Home' at St Austell to raise funds to provide:
'Shallal Sketchbooks
Sunday, 29 May 2022
Global crisis - Shallal Response
I collated this list recently and thought here is a good place to share it.
Shallal Response
Worked with Manda Brookman supported by CAST for Regenerative Visions for the Arts in Cornwall
Speakers
Judith Knight- Founder of Arts Admin
Jess Pendergast - ACE women of the year…Onion Collective
Katherine Lewis- Helston Climate Change Action group
Manda Brookman - Cornwall person of the year - Cafe Disruptif
55 attendees on zoom
BSL and captioning paid by Falmouth Art Gallery & Feast
Regenerative Visions for the Arts in Cornwall Part 2
SW region participants discussion 35
Annual Visioning in Shallal
Manda Brookman - guest speaker
Now working with her for a Shallal Charter for Change via VSF, external for partners and internal for our housekeeping
Videos - Green Choices introducing the Doughnut ( Doughnut Economics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?
“If we ever go back to normal How are you going to change your life?” Eddie Callis artist with autism https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Instagram - created CornishDoughnutFeast
https://www.instagram.com/cornishdoughnutfeast/?hl=en
Childrens Fire videos for G7 from Shallal individual participants: Sammy, Sam, Kerry, Toby, Katherine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Shout Louder FEAST
10 million ….reach stats for their films etc
Voices at the Table youtube film Doughnut Economics by Shallal 2
BSL and Makaton versions
Used by Kate Raworth on a TEDx talk
https://www.youtube.com/
Project Lab
Doughnut Economics based arts project accepted
Jo Willis one of first members of Cornish Doughnut Collective - Cornwall Council supported group
Culture Declares Emergency on strategy group for approx a year - hoped to promote inclusion, left to focus elsewhere.
Shallal one of first Penwith organisations to support CEE Bill see blog
https://www.blogger.com/blog/
I would now add fund raising and supporting action for people who are refugees, local and international projects
Benefit for Falmouth and Penryn welcome refugees 2019
Benefit for Children of the Ukraine and Mobile Refugee Support 2022
Thursday, 12 May 2022
George's dress rehearsal photos
There are so many places to put images nowadays FB, instagram etc so these are going in here for a change!
Some for publicity, marketing, some for funders, some just for those involved to see each other, some for our birthday cards! 2 to make one for Toby and one for Sam, both wonderful cross art form artists and good mates, both started in Open House Penzance years ago and now in Shallal Dance Theatre, Shallal Studios and more...
Thank you to George for these dress rehearsal photographs:
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Anna Penhaligon |
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Rev Elizabeth signing, many thanks |
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good audience, wonderful space, introducing Mobile Refugee Support |
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to show we were streaming it in Landscape!!?! |
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Colin and Sam with sticks |
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Anna, Miles, Toby, Rowan, Eddie, Kerry and Tina |
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Kerry and all - great ceiling |
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Toby as Pharoh |
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Go Down Moses |
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Star, Bobby, Julie, Becky and Kerry T, thank you to Julie and all those who were supporting performers |
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Toby |
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Eddie's monkey mask |
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Bobby and mask |
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Sapphire, lovely to have her dancing with us - now she is busy with other exciting projects |
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Noah's Ark |
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Pete, able to join us for shows and busy in FAD |
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Toby recorder piece played at the entrance to the show |
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Debs and Kerry, Debs is back with us each week now |
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we work in circles |
Shallal Village Project - Tobys' words
Dreaming and Visioning is important,
Action and Vision.
I asked Toby if I could share this:
"to Bobby, Shallal Village project.
Saturday, 7 May 2022
A Call for Home Truro Cathedral 6.5.22 comments & credits
£611.15 raised for 2 charities
80 audience - old and new
Thank you to Sean, Steve, Joe and all team wonderful team at Truro Cathedral.
To Ian and Lin for lighting
Tracy and Richard for serving the drinks
Elizabeth for signing
Star for suggesting we perform at the cathedral and all the people in Shallal for such a wonderful communal effort.
Photos from George coming soon and you can watch it on
https://www.facebook.com/ShallalArts 100 views so far!
but apologies at the moment you need to turn it around to see it the right way up! - maybe watch on a phone.
Feedback:
"What a fantastic production last night. We were blown away with the passion, professionalism and sheer joy you all brought to us is such a wonderful setting. It is the third time we have watched ‘A Call to Home’ and this was even more outstanding than the previous two.
Thank you both so much for making this happen and instilling such enthusiasm in the diverse troupe that makes up Shallal." performers parents email
it was a joy to be there"
"Loved the whole darned thing!
What a joy bringer...." whats app - performer
"it was the best and it was so amazing" whats app - performer
"Fantastic Jo ... ....., ...... & I watched it ( whilst eating at the table .. usually a big no-no but this was an exception !) & we loved it .. such an achievement .. WELL DONE đź’• .....sang along & was very engaged & enthusiastic throughout .. & we had front seats ... & what an amazing venue !
Now you can relax ! Such a lot of energy needed to pull together such a thing & practical logistics like live-streaming ... it was perfect, good visual & sound ." audience - zoom participant and family
Comments book:
Really wonderful and moving performance and evening, and great fun! Many thanks.
Most incredible evening, with so many wonderful people connecting and coming together . thank you x
"Brilliant
Very nice
great fun!"
"Well done all wonderful evening"
"Performances were very good to see"
" What total stars you all are. It was brilliant and very moving. Thank you"
"Such a powerful performance. Beautiful culture, music, dance and so good to people together again. Can't wait until the next one!
"Well done to all you excellent performance"
"It was wonderful and totally from the heart. Thank you so much"
" Absolutely Wonderful ! :) "
"and beautiful. Thank you so much"
CREDITS & INFO
'A Call to Home'
title by Michael Willis
Credits
Many thanks to:
Bells - Gem Boord, with thanks to Terri Stevens
Children - Jacqui Callis and words by Suzan Caroll
Wade in the water/ Were you there - spirituals by (enslaved) African Americans
Lobster Song - words by Nick Darke and music by Jim Carey
Sky - Medwyn Goodall
Bishops Jig/ No Song No Supper - Dalla
Shallal
The Origin of the world - Dave Shepherd, played by Toby Bridge
Hireth - the Ordinalia, - written and performed by Deborah Udy-O'Nyons
Live Improvised Music by George Clement Peer
The Animals Came in Two by Two - recorded and produced by Eddie Callis with Stuart Blackmore, including Jacqui Callis - vocals
Lost in Translation - written and performed by Kerry Tomlins
'Reporter' - written and performed by Jo Lumber
Angels - dancers Star and Katie Wheeler filmed by Terry and Jacob, film edited by Star.
Swing Low Sweet Chariot and Go Down Moses arranged, played and sung by The Wheeler family: Glen, Zo, Katie, Joseph, Arron and Jacob.
Wade in the water and Where you there? - sung by Jo Willis signed by Demelza Rouncefield
Spoken word signing by Rev Elizabeth Foot
We were very excited and grateful to originally be given this commission by Kresen Kernow. Inspired by the Ordinalia and Out of the Ordinary.
It was our first live show since January 2020 and it was very well received on 24 September and in November we performed it at St Peter’s Church, Newlyn. We are pleased to offer an evening Benefit Performance.
We have worked with the themes of the Ordinalia and our own style of Open Improvisation, as always the gloriously varied creativity of everyone shines through and we hope you enjoy it.
A highlight for us is having our friends The Wheelers with us in voice.
(It will still be sometime till we can all meet up and dance again indoors with them, so Katie danced in a field to be filmed, thank you to Star.)
You can see Zo and Katie with Lily and Zoe in Faraway dances on Shallal Art you tube channel.
The Wheeler family recorded and produced their own version of Swing Low Sweet Chariot at home...
"Everyone's worked really hard and got the swing low, sweet chariot song ready, I hope you like it, we are really pleased. we wrote the arrangement, produced, played and sung it all ourselves, all 6 members of the family feature on the track." Glen
"It's been amazing seeing it grow from nothing, we did the whole thing from scratch, no backing tracks for us. We all joined in, which has been lovely. Hope you like it." Zo
From that they have recorded in a day on their kitchen table, ‘Go down Moses’ for this show.
There's so much to say and we hope the work speaks for itself, do come and chat with us afterwards.
Dancers
Toby Bridge
Tina Butler
Eddie Callis
George Clement Peer
Colin Curbishley
Rowan Curbishley
Katherine Giddings
Jilly Hellerman
Kerry Jackson
Bobby Johnson
Peter Kirby
Jo Lumber
Anna Penhaligon
Demelza Rouncefield
Becky Smith
Star
Miles Stead
Sapphire Sumpter
Kerry Tomlins
Debbie Udy-O’Nyons
Sam While
Backstage/support/costume - Star, Demelza, Julie Watson
Technical Support - George
Unable to join us today - Zoe Wilton, The Wheelers and Justin Holland.
Creative Director - Jo Willis
Man of many hats! Co-ordination and transport and more...Colin Curbishley
Front of House - Chris and Viktoriia Gardner, Jenny Stead and Di Burrell
Refreshments - many thanks to Tracy and Richard Clowes
General manager - Chris Gardner
Finance manager - Ian Burns
Many thanks to all our trustees, family, friends and supporters and funders, and to Sean and all at Truro Cathedral for their support.
Please give generously this is a Benefit for Help for the Children of the Ukraine and Mobile Refugee Support.
If you fancy trying an informal fun approach to creativity do join us in person or on Zoom more info at www.shallal.org.uk
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