Beginnings
We are three women, dancers, artists, makers.
We are interested in regenerative practices; practices of slowing down and coming into contact with; practices that sustain and nourish us; practices that shift our perceptions; practices for becoming more earthly.
Journeying offers a compositional structure to follow, connecting to place along a route.
Our journeying is into body, into place and into being. This is not the start of something new, as it is already happening, we need only to enter in.
We are interested in yielding, an act of relinquishment that can propel us somewhere new.
A theme is breathing with as a practice of attunement and being with rather than doing.
In exploring choreographies of place, we find new mappings. We might call them somatic cartographies.
Our approach is environmental and our processes are two- fold: following ideas of the earth and following ideas of the body. We begin by getting familiar with a place, through being with what is already present.
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Do human beings have within them an innate sense of connection to other forms of life? If so, can this natural feeling, this "biophilia," both enhance our respect for ourselves as human and reinforce our sense of obligation to treat other forms of life with loving care?
— T. H. Watkins
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Glossary of Scots words
syke or sike
small rill, stream, gutter or ditch which might dry up in summer
shaw
small wood or thicket
lithe or lythe
to shelter from the weather
lown
sheltered spot
when wind is lowered or calm
hushed sound
laich or laigh
the lowest part of anything
scance
look carefully, analyse, a brief appearance as in a scance of a deer, glen or glitter ( of a leaf for example)
mind
to remember, to gift
taisle
to entangle