Thanks to Lou who is doing such wonderful posters for recent events!
So looking forward to this one.
Don't miss:
Shallal Dance Theatre
Embodied Space
within installation by light artist Peter Freeman
http://www.peterfreeman.co.uk/
& improvised music by George Clement Peer.
2019 saw Shallal Dance Theatre in some wonderful spaces including an Eden Project Biome, Minack Theatre Car Park, Kestle Barton wildflower meadow ( a highlight), Falmouth Art Gallery, Tremenheere Gallery, Sterts Theatre, Liskerett Centre, each performance spontaneous and utterly different.
These are the last two performance events of our Here and Now Project, circling back to where we started at Newlyn Gallery last January but in a very different guise as along the way at the Minack we met Peter Freeman! and we are so excited to work together, we previewed working together at our Back Lane West Residency and we hope to continue after this.
We'd love your feedback and will open the space up for immersive experience and exploration with us after the 30 min performance.
Colour, Sound and some expressive Shallal dancers is a pretty good combination to expand the depths of winter and brighten your day!
Shallal Dance Theatre
Embodied Space
within installation by light artist Peter Freeman
http://www.peterfreeman.co.uk/
& improvised music by George Clement Peer.
2019 saw Shallal Dance Theatre in some wonderful spaces including an Eden Project Biome, Minack Theatre Car Park, Kestle Barton wildflower meadow ( a highlight), Falmouth Art Gallery, Tremenheere Gallery, Sterts Theatre, Liskerett Centre, each performance spontaneous and utterly different.
These are the last two performance events of our Here and Now Project, circling back to where we started at Newlyn Gallery last January but in a very different guise as along the way at the Minack we met Peter Freeman! and we are so excited to work together, we previewed working together at our Back Lane West Residency and we hope to continue after this.
We'd love your feedback and will open the space up for immersive experience and exploration with us after the 30 min performance.
Colour, Sound and some expressive Shallal dancers is a pretty good combination to expand the depths of winter and brighten your day!
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On Friday we had our annual Sponsored dance and warmed back up into the world of moving, as someone said it can be hard to come out of hibernation at this time of year.
Within it we had an hour of improvised music and working with very long stretchy material and elastic, good to have so much uninterrupted time for exploring.
We miss Star who is resting her broken foot, and dear Zoe Wilton is having her first ever break from Shallal Dance Theatre, she is the longest attending member now ( founder member of 30 years!) so i think she can have a sabbatical! and is enjoying baking apparently. We hope she will return for our next project and meanwhile as often happens ( people move sideways in Shallal to other parts so still connected ) and she is at the Shallal Studio on Wednesdays with Phoebe.
Which leads me onto why i was writing this, i went to work with Eddie today at the studio, we meet for an hour to look at media, design etc currently wanting to make a new Shallal 2 poster, and Janet and Phoebe were there!
Oh joy when the Studio initiative was thought of one of the main artists we were inspired by was Janet. I met Janet over 20 plus years ago when i founded (with Artshare) and co-ran Dance and Draw for people moving out of Budock Hospital and others in the community. Janet then went on to do fantastic art work at Annexe Arts run by Lisa Mortensen, whose high standard of facilitation work is another inspiration for the studios.
So there was Janet today stuck into wonderful large canvas paintings, and Phoebe, like her studio assistant, supporting her process and 2 lovely support workers.
I do like to chat and had lovely conversations and insights and met Sam who has started Hand in Hand a dating agency - much needed - so impressed and wish him all the best with it.
Phoebe and Lou have worked really hard last term developing the studio and it's wonderful to see it start to embed itself and our dreams materialise. Looking forward to a cup of tea together and chatting around future potential developments with Phoebe tomorrow.
You can see images on our instagram.
On another note my family recently need more of my time and will do so for a while, so i am in the process of adjusting my work load and getting people involved to back me up, it has been hard to take the decisions (as i love my work), but i also already see benefits from it as it opens up the work more which is a good thing for skills sharing, gaining experience and for our longterm sustainability, diversity and progression.
Our first administrator Diana Morris' mantra was "family first" and we are forever grateful for all her combined experience and wisdom which underpins all our background ethos and approach.
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