For the past year, dancers Lois Taylor, Sarah Fairhall and Gemma Kempthorne have worked alongside artists, photographers, writers, dancers, composer Jamie Mills and film-maker Brett Harvey, to create physical postcards — minute-long danced messages filmed in the landscape.
The project has engaged a number of community groups and many messages have been danced and filmed. The project has given expression to words that may otherwise be unwritten — messages sent to loved ones, no longer here, future selves and those yet to be born; as well as friends, family, and even lost socks!
The diverse range of countryside in East Cornwall has been celebrated and given each postcard a tone, be it moorland, coast or woodland.
The project, which has been funded by Arts Council England with support from FEAST, has worked with partner venues — Sterts Theatre, Hay Studio near St Breock and RoseHip Barn at St Clether — to raise the profile of dance in the area.
The culmination of their creative collaboration will be celebrated through ‘The Collection’, an event combining live performance and the screening of two new films made during the project, ‘Moving Messages’ and ‘Physical Postcards’ at their partner venues.
Performances will start at 7.30pm, with the last one taking place tomorrow (Friday) at Hay Studio. To book a place, email [email protected].
As part of the project, additional funding was secured from FEAST to develop relations between artists, local community members and Rosehip Barn.
One of these workshops has seen the creation of RoseHip youth dance, a company set up for talented young dancers to develop their skills in contemporary dance technique, choreography and performance skills.
The company is open to children and young people between the age of eight and sixteen and meets monthly.
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