Photography by Peter Dukes, Benjamin Borley, Clair Summers and Kevin Clifford
Local artists, local creativity
Thank you to all that supported Stomping Ground 2017-2018
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Clay Walks was a resounding success this June 2018. We are so proud of how epic, beautiful and celebratory the project was. Thank you to all who took part. We have dedicated a whole page to this project so please take a look.
Our Stomping Ground Project has now come to a close, and we are gearing up for the next stage in SpinDrift's adventure and Suzie West's role as Artistic Director. There is a write up, documentary and and full research report on the Stomping Ground page to this website, so please take a look.
This Spring, Suzie West has been developing Flock with a small team of dancers and writers including Jaime Lock, Kyra Norman, Miranda Howard, Jayne Devlin and Immy Starr. This is a pilot project to trial a new co-creation project that focusses on the role of the arts in civic engagement and conservation. Working closely with Wheal Martyn, Elevate Dance, Breeze Arts and White Gold Festival the small Flock will be finding out from local communities, landowners, conservationists and archivists, what makes their local spaces worth conserving. What hidden voices need to be archived? Female voices in a working mans community, native species that have been overtaken, birds and insects that need protecting.. new perspectives on old heritage spaces.
The work begins with the 5 female founders of the RSPB. Female activists of their time who gathered women together and protested against the use of feathers and plumage for fashion. Flock is a group of dancers, writers, conservation scientists, wildlife volunteers and historians who will explore the collective enterprise and the importance of a message. What would our message be for this place? What would our message be for now? What is important to us? What do we want to protect? What changes can we make for the better?
The Flock is ever-growing in numbers and we would like you to be part of the creative journey. Birds of a feather, sticking together to celebrate Cornwall. The work we make will be migrated to a new Flock in Plymouth for a second stage of the project, which will pilot the migration of a message and movement sharings. Suzie West and SpinDrift Dance Collective want to pilot the project this summer for a larger scale project in the future.
Our Stomping Ground Project has now come to a close, and we are gearing up for the next stage in SpinDrift's adventure and Suzie West's role as Artistic Director. There is a write up, documentary and and full research report on the Stomping Ground page to this website, so please take a look.
This Spring, Suzie West has been developing Flock with a small team of dancers and writers including Jaime Lock, Kyra Norman, Miranda Howard, Jayne Devlin and Immy Starr. This is a pilot project to trial a new co-creation project that focusses on the role of the arts in civic engagement and conservation. Working closely with Wheal Martyn, Elevate Dance, Breeze Arts and White Gold Festival the small Flock will be finding out from local communities, landowners, conservationists and archivists, what makes their local spaces worth conserving. What hidden voices need to be archived? Female voices in a working mans community, native species that have been overtaken, birds and insects that need protecting.. new perspectives on old heritage spaces.
The work begins with the 5 female founders of the RSPB. Female activists of their time who gathered women together and protested against the use of feathers and plumage for fashion. Flock is a group of dancers, writers, conservation scientists, wildlife volunteers and historians who will explore the collective enterprise and the importance of a message. What would our message be for this place? What would our message be for now? What is important to us? What do we want to protect? What changes can we make for the better?
The Flock is ever-growing in numbers and we would like you to be part of the creative journey. Birds of a feather, sticking together to celebrate Cornwall. The work we make will be migrated to a new Flock in Plymouth for a second stage of the project, which will pilot the migration of a message and movement sharings. Suzie West and SpinDrift Dance Collective want to pilot the project this summer for a larger scale project in the future.
Collaboration with Situations and Ingri Fiksdal for The Tale
SpinDrift have been working with Situations this August and September 2017 to create A Diorama of Shaolstone Tidal Pool with Norweigian choreographer and visual artist Ingrid Fiksdal. The installation was part of a massive community arts programme led by Situations and took in many visual arts and immersive performances for the public to experience as they journeyed around the Torbay coastline.
Dancers Nadje Shaeffer, Lauren Pomfret, Suzie West, Hannah Saunders, Cathy Palmer and apprentices Caitlin Moore and Ellie Petherick Davies took part in the visual spectacle morphing into sequinned silhouettes, ghostly moving across the tidal pool at dusk.
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