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A collaborative enquiry with Lucy Cash
Our practices involve moving & making with writing at their core. As artists who approach the world choreographically we were drawn to thinking about interdependence & sympoeisis together; about the ways in which both poetry and dance are technologies that refuse a singular position. From 2016-2022 we created and shaped some specific spaces alongside one another – for radical compassion; complex conversation; for thinking deeply-and-lightly and caring harder - through a poetics we described as a practice of quiet queerings. Doing the invisible work, as does the soil. To sow, seed and tend to listening.
Independent dance-makers, performance-makers, film-maker, poet/s, two quiet types, we made, presented and performed work concerned with the choreographic, across different forms, for a double of decades. Together we collaborated on commissioned projects in parks, libraries, gardens, miners’ clubs, on beaches and cliff tops, alongside lakes and lochs, at sundown and sunrise. Our work appeared in public spaces, in galleries, on stages and at festivals internationally. Our writing appeared online, in journals and in print.
Lucy (Glasgow, UK) & Luke (Edinburgh, UK) met and started working together On Landguard Point – an Artists Taking The Lead, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad project.
Image credits: Lucy Cash and Ole Birkland
Projects
Our New Common Forest Summer 2022 with Spudworks and Breakout Youth
To gather, together, to touch Spring 2022, Gallery exhibition as inter-medial essay for The Barn, Banchory
Phosphorescence, October 2021, curators Micro-festival for The Barn, Banchory
Turning Out, Tuning In Summer 2021 with The Barn, Banchory
A Morgan Scrapbook 2021 An Edwin Morgan The Second Life Award YT(b).
But Felt For, Back & Forth (2020) - poem series for Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities – Glasgow edition. Edited by Ruthie Kennedy and Colin Herd
A Long Side (2016-17) - a year-long project with choreographer, Emilyn Claid; Lucy worked as co-director and filmmaker, Luke as assistant choreographer with The Elderflowers - a small community of elders from ex-mining communities in Pegswood in Northumberland.Exploring intimate connections between memory, gesture and place,