A hike into mountains on a summer’s day led me to choreograph a group audio walk for parks. Creating this Dance Umbrella piece was a journey in itselfIt was the summer of 2011. I had been dancing in Amsterdam,then attended a assembly in Santiago di Compostela, then went straight to Hamburg for a residency and on to Grenoble for another. I travelled by train or by hitchhiking. (Train when there was funding, or hitching when there wasn’t.) Lots of long journeys. Lots of landscapes. By the end of our time in Grenoble,I’d escape out of steam. My collaborators left, and I had a spare day, or so I walked out from the city into the mountains. During that journey,I realised how useful I found walking as a way of thinking. It made me curious to create a work through the process of being on a physical journey rather than in a studio, and to create a work that was itself a journey. Continue reading...
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