NEST

Performed at : Wales Millenium Centre(Cardiff Dance Festival), Chapter Cardiff, DanceBase Edinburgh, Yorkshire Dance, Maynard Abercych, Small World Theatre Carmarthen, Capel Y Graig, Seven Arts- Leeds, Independent Dance- London.

Supported by ACW and Maynard.

The choreography of NEST accumulated over a 4 year period- though early stages of my pregnancy with my daughter. It is performance which shows Life and Art as the same and reveals the function of Love in ordinary life. NEST takes form as a settlement- a transformative relationship between my body, mind and memory. It examines in detail, repetition and mutation of forms, generating unique variables and deviations of meaning and being.

NEST encompassed adaptations of journey through pregnancy and motherhood- integrating layers and strands of survival

NEST translates the mythological female ability to multitask as an instinctive predisposition to reside within an inter-connective continuum- unravelling encounters with evolution and alternative/mythical creational belief systems- questioning news as a window to the world. Re-maping my beliefs through relativistic perspectives- using real and imagined scenarios with my mother/family, negotiations with nature and civilisation, the origins of sex, propositions of gender, interfaces with cars and strangers.

NEST examines utilitarian aspects of fantasy, the fabric of humanity’s constructed reality, both of which are inter-dependent with our ability as human beings to fabricate imaginary realms. It is a corner of the universe where everything begins, must end and is somehow connected.

The work is a dance, an instillation, an audience interface, in relation to my daughter’s presence During the performance I reference truth as a perceptual and cultural phenomena- inscribing my own experiences on research drawn from Elaine Morgan’s “Aquatic Ape” and “Decent of the Child”, Noah Yurari’s “Sapien", and Naomi Woolf’s “Vagina” amongst other feminist, anthropological texts, news and fictional texts.

Polar oppositional concepts exist as a navigational obstacle course- using experiential, manifold questioning of truth as a subjective compass.

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