Conversation betWeen artists
A conversation between Cai Tomos and Kyra Norman.
As part of GATHER UP Presents, we invited a conversation between artists Cai Tomos and Kyra Norman.
They discuss their practice, and in relation to it, chat about time, place, process and making sense of things through dancing.
Kyra Norman is a dancer and choreographer working mostly in galleries, public spaces and outdoors: on land, in water and through weather. She works with embodiment, improvisation and experimental choreography to explore ideas and practices of movement, connection and place, through live performance, screen media, writing & participatory events. Deep Time Moving is an ongoing, movement-led artwork, unfolding in response to the geological, deep time moves of the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, where she lives.
https://www.kyranorman.co.uk | https://www.deeptimemoving.co.uk
Cai Tomos is Independent Dance artist, Art Psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Cranial Sacral Therapy Student. He has worked both nationally and internationally as a dancer and maker. He lives in Rural Mid Wales. His practice spans from dancing and making, to facilitating arts and health work with adults both in hospitals and in theatre settings. He runs an Elders Performance Company in Wales and offers workshops in the UK and abroad. He works as an artist in Chelsea and Westminster hospital and for Entelechy arts where he runs the Welsh Ambient jam, an improvisational sensory space for adults with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) . Improvisational practices are at the heart of his work supporting people to develop and discover their own movement language and vocabulary.
ACCESSIBLE DANCE SPACES - A conversation between Holly Thomas, Raquel Meseguer ZAFE, Ania Varez and kip johnson hosted by Laura DanNEQUIN
A conversation hosted by Gather Up co-director Laura Dannequin, exploring accessible practices within contemporary dance practice with a focus on Creative Audio Description.
With Venezuelan dance artist Ania Varez; dancer and choreographer Holly Thomas who explores visual impairment and the aesthetics of choreography from a non-visual perspective; Raquel Meseguer Zafe, dance theatre practitioner who explores the lived experience of invisible disability; dance artist Kip Johnson who explores the intersection between human and natural processes, and provides Creative Audio Description as part of our programme.