everything doesn’t fit together
finding edges
softening edges
feeling previously unfelt edges
inadvertently creating unwanted edges
meeting useful edges
we spoke and danced about how we might soften some edges
soften some edges from one state of being to another
and soften edges around a task - beginning before we begin and perhaps not ending at the end
and soften edges between the formal and the informal
and soften edges between us - at a ‘who we are and what we each do’ level
and soften edges between us - at a skin level
and soften edges between us - as we move and as we watch
and we did this while also moving along and through all those other edges
you know the ones
hope and need and fear and joy and pain and expectation and the unexpected
quite incredible really
The above is a reflection on a two-week making process of everything doesn’t fit together, November 2019.
With performers Natalie Corne, Laura Dannequin, Luke Divall, Helka Kaski, Camille Marchadour, Tilly Webber, Ellie Showering; composer Ellie Showering; creative support from Katherine Hall; producing from Emma Bettridge and film and photography from Jack Offord.
Project supported using public funding by Arts Council England and through Pavilion South West Surf Generator Seed Funding. With additional support from Bristol Ferment Leverhulme Scholarship, Siobhan Davies Dance, Tobacco Factory Theatre Residency Programme and Trinity Centre.
Photo: Jack Offord Performer: Helka Kaski
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