After The Flood
Monday 7 June 19:00 - 22:30
Live at Brighton Speigeltent + remote from wherever you are
Hosted by Sanctuary on the Fault Line and friends
A night of talks, dances, drinks, sounds, visions + contemplation.
After the flood
we hold the crystals
emerged from the mud
we hold the sanctuaries
come from our suffering
After the flood.
We do not piece together the broken pieces.
We walk with nothing
but our dance, our sound, our life
we do not sit at the feet of power, asking to be seen
we walk from chains
we grow, we enchant, we woman, we darkness.
Tickets £10-12
Tickets to attend live in Brighton: https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/after-the-flood-154678/
Tickets to attend from wherever you are: https://www.universe.com/events/after-the-flood-tickets-brighton-M94R2Z
(With remote/online booking audiences can book 1-6 tickets at once, all those on your ticket order can be together in a shared virtual space. Bring drinks, dinner and enter beauty’s field with us.)
All attendees can feel free to come and go for parts of the evening, live and remote.
Flow of the evening
(18:00 Pre-show drinks with South East Dance in the Spiegeltent garden bar for all dance/movement artists. Live audience only. Info here)
19:00 Opening Live music by Julian Mosch from his decks in Leipzig. Chat, drink, be merry, we will introduce the eve about 19:15.
19:30 Talk 1: Re-enchantment with dancer/researcher Andrew Sanger
Break/thoughts + questions
20:00: Talk 2: Growing from deep roots. What could we learn from how dance has met the contemporary world in Ghana, with dancer and Director of Noyam Nii-Tete Yartey.
Break/thoughts + questions
20:30 Talk 3: The vitalness of unleashing woman and dance uninhibited in society with dancer Hayley J S Matthews
20:50 Sanctuary on the Fault Line film launch
21:15 ‘FERAL’ by Daisy Black (wild aerial film)
21:30 Break, Live music by Julian Mosch from his decks in Leipzig
21:45 ‘Imbolc’ by Murmura (live music, image, dance)
22:15 Closing An invitation for closing words and questions in voice and in chat, from contributors and attendees alike.
22:30 Close
Curated by dancer Hayley J S Matthews (UK) of Sanctuary on the Fault Line, global fugitive network of women dancers, with contributing artists choreographer Nii-Tete Yartey (GH), Dancer/researcher Andrew Sanger (US/UK), film maker Ruby Phelan (UK), Aerialist Daisy Black (UK), Photographer/musician Alistair Simmons (UK), dancers Rachel Elderkin (UK), Amy Mauven (NL/UK), Emma Zangs (FR/UK), Sandra Voulgari (GR), Lisa Sang (UK), Chloe Snelgrove (UK), Julia Pond (US/UK), Anastasia Kostner (IT/NL)
Co-produced with Beach Without Walls and Be Squared new digital platform.
"My feeling is that there are deep currents that we have had a chance to listen to, broken things that we have had a chance to see and feel, and that we could take some time to listen. And slowly, slowly begin to move differently. I sense a need for us to dwell a while in feeling, darkness, mystery, woman, roots, bravery, the buds of our dance, fugitivity, hiding. It's brave to dwell there, but if we do, new structures can emerge led by an organic anima quality that we have not given time or respect to for a long time.” Hayley
About
Sanctuary on the Fault Line
Sanctuary on the Fault Line is a fugitive global network of re-wilded professional women dancers, performing in the wild with local audiences in a gift economy. And events and training that root high quality dance in health and away from broken systems, aiming to support the liberation and empowerment of dancers and the unleashing of woman uninhibited, to allow dance’s true power to reach the human family and do it’s vital work for human health and potential.
More about the wild dances network
FERAL
F E R A L is a new year-long project taking place over 2021 with short films and/or outdoor performances on the Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice.
This series of four performances will explore a reconnection with the land, marking these pivotal moments of the year and drawing on folktales, the act of rewilding and ecological processes. It will seek to explore the connection between our wellbeing and the wellbeing of the land, and how we might heal both, looking at the intersection of art and activism.
By Daisy Black
‘Imbolc’
Imbolc is an ambient live experience which builds a territory of sound, image and movement. Imbolc takes inspiration from the traditional musical composition of a nocturne in its exploration of darkness, wilderness and transformation and the time of year when spring is rumbling in deep winter known as ‘Imbolc’. It integrates electronic samples with live flute, guitar, dance and a series of photographs shot at night at Imbolc while staring into the sea mist at Great Yarmouth, UK.
Made and performed by Hayley Matthews and Alistair Simmons / Murmura
About the contributors:
Andrew Sanger (US/UK)
Andrew is a PhD researcher at University College London. Eco-queer dance artist, anthropologist and somatic researcher, studying dance and performance as environmental practice.
Hayley J S Matthews (UK)
Hayley is a freelance contemporary dancer, Rolfer (structural integration posture and movement specialist) and care taker of a fugitive global network of pro dancing women, Sanctuary on the Fault Line. And one half of Murmura with husband Alistair H M Simmons. More of her work here
Alistair Simmons (UK)
Alistair is a photographer, drummer, sound maker and one half of Murmura with wife Hayley J S Matthews.
Nii- Tete Yartey (Ghana)
Tete is a dancer, performer, teacher and choreographer. He is the son of Ghana’s foremost dance choreographer and teacher, the late Professor Francis Nii-Yartey. Having taken on directorship of National Dance Company Ghana in 2015 after his father’s death, becoming its youngest director, Tete recently stepped down to turn his attention to his father’s love and brainchild Noyam Dance Company and Noyam Institute of dance in Dodowa, Ghana.
Daisy Black (UK)
Daisy Black is a multi-skilled circus artist, producer, mother, teacher & writer. From graceful aerial artistry to swallowing razorblades, spinning flaming hula hoops, book writing, film making and dancing on broken glass. Director, founder and creative producer of Gossamer Thread Circus with partner mentalist Alex McAleer.
Julian Mosch (Germany)
Musician and DJ from Leipzig Germany. Spherical, yet melancholic atmosphere with a distinctive deepness and complex sound patterns. Noises from out of space and moving baselines stirring up the creatures who got lost, taking the audience to places where they haven't been before and leaving them in gentle confusion. Part of the Laut & Luise family.
Professional women dancers of Sanctuary on the Fault Line
You can find details of where and when each dancer dances in the wild at Sanctuary on the Fault Line ~ Wild Dances
Karen Kerkhoven (AU), Sandra Voulgari (GR), Anastasia Kostner (NL), Lisa Sang (UK), Chloe Snelgrove (UK), Debbie Allan (SCT), Hayley J S Matthews (UK), Julia Pond (UK), Rachel Elderkin (UK), Amy Mauvan (UK), Emma Zangs (UK), Daisy Black (UK), Jane Connelly (UK), Tyler Rai (UK).
For questions email hayley@ensembledance.org