Art performance comes to Reiss
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AN "immersive performance experience" is coming to Reiss village hall this month hosted by Lyth Arts Centre.
Bodies of Water is described as a playful, multi-sensory performance experience weaving together movement, choreography, water, objects and sound.
Vikki Stewart, the Bodies of Water project manager, said: "We encounter water in our everyday lives – through our bodies and environment. We invite you to immerse yourselves in a unique performance experience, as we explore and celebrate this transformative element that connects all living things."
Bodies of Water is a collaborative, interdisciplinary and experimental performance project initiated by Glasgow-based choreographer/performer Saffy Setohy. The project is performed by a collective of artists including Aya Kobayashi, choreographer/performer, Joanna Young, choreographer/performer, and Nicolette Macleod, musician/sound designer, along with Saffy Setohy.
People and environment are at the heart of the work. Explored through choreography, movement, sound, visual art and participatory practices, Bodies of Water aims to draw connections between our experiences as humans made mostly of water, our relationship to it personally, politically, environmentally, and the materiality of water – its choreographic, sculptural and sound potential.
Vikki added: "Underpinning the work is an understanding that, if we can connect to and inhabit the realities of our bodies and experiences, we will relate to and more easily consider our environment, our communities and the challenges that we face."
The artists expanded their choreographic practice to include walking and moving, drawing, writing, arranging, making, reading and sounding. Their research has ranged over diverse terrain – their felt sense and memories of water in their environment and bodies, the body as a container and vessel, water filtration, deep mapping, deep time, geological processes, plastic pollution, artificial nature, the materiality of water in its liquid, solid and gaseous states.
The performance is at Reiss village hall on Saturday, September 28, at 3pm and 8pm. More information can be found at www.lytharts.org.uk (01955 641 434).
