Dance Artist and Somatic Movement Educator
PROJECTS
"I see myself as a landscape dancer"
(Celeste Nazeli Snowber, Between the Art 2023 - view article here)
Investigating the creative process of people-environment-land through sensing, experiencing, and place-making has intrigued my artistic practice for several years.
This lends itself to an improvisation-based practice of awareness and spontaneity with a focus on the human-land relationship, connections between instinctive embodied responses and the surrounding environment, and understandings of the interrelationship between body and place.
Below is a selection of recent site-specific or site-responsive projects.
RiVER-BODY
RiVER-BODY is a site-responsive conversation with a Northumberland river. It developed into a solo embodied piece, part-improvised, part-choreographed, performed at the University of Roehampton. The collaborations with local people, the conversations, and creating outside along the river all informed the work. The exhibition brought these experiences from Northumberland into the studio space.
See more about RiVER-BODY here
UNDERFOOT
A Site-Specific Dance Performance in the Ingram Valley of Northumberland.
The project name Underfoot was chosen to demonstrate the relationship between my lived experience and the intangible heritage present at Brough Law hillfort. It considers Robert MacFarlane's exploration of ancient landscape and human journeys in The Old Ways to question:
Who has been here before us?
What knowledge is held underneath the ground?
How does the past contribute to the present?
Underfoot is an excavation to notice something anew through acquiring dance as a vehicle to discover and connect ideas to progress the community’s and audience’s understanding of Ingram’s rich heritage, and the need to preserve it.
MAPPiNG AiR
In collaboration with visual artist Marilou Chagnaud for her final residency exhibition at VARC, Highgreen, Northumberland.
Two site-specific performances using large scarfs made from recycled parachute material outside, and in the barns at Highgreen under Marilou's installations.
Find out more about the work here
