Fields

This Sunday Emma hosted a lunchtime event at Harbertonford village hall, as part of her new project, Fields. Emma invited local people to drop in for a scone and to share photographs and stories of floods and snowstorms in the village. We met some wonderful locals, who were generous with their recollections and photos. collected some very interesting stories, and some great old photos of the village under water and deep in snow.

Fields is an ongoing investigation into a number of fields that overlook Harbertonford. During January and February Emma spent a series of days visiting the fields, recording weather, wildlife, atmospheres, human and non-human comings and goings.

The first public outcome of Fields is a 55-minute presentation, to be shown next at PL:ay festival in Plymouth on Friday 27th July, at 6.30pm (see below).

propeller at PL:ay festival

Here's an update of all propeller business -
All five propellers will be at PL:ay festival, Plymouth, (http://playfestival.pcad.ac.uk/) Friday 27th and Saturday 28th July, showing four pieces. Its a great opportunity to see our work, and catch up with us. There's also a lot of other good work happening over the two days -
pete

Emma Bush - Fields
6.30pm Fri 27th July, Plymouth College of Art and Design
In the winter months a series of fields are visited, often at twilight. The fields lie in the Westcountry in a village named Harbertonford. In this presentation you are invited to come and see something of what happened there.

In the fields lies a promise, a stillness, a pause for reflection with the impermanence of things, the myth of stability and the longing for 'home'.

Standing alone watching the light change, a rook flies over on its way to roost, across the valley a line of houses nestles into the hill. The sun illuminates their bright colours as it leaves the sky, blue smoke rises from the chimney in the middle of the line.

Augusto Corrieri - Performance for Beginners
8pm, Fri 2th July Plymouth College of Art and Design
10 performers stand roughly in a line, shaking their bodies loose, jumping and falling and dancing, in and out of sync with each other. The 10 performers, of different ages and skills, are all from Plymouth: each person has rehearsed the piece on their own, at home, by watching an instruction video posted on the YouTube website.


propeller - The Lacuna Voyages
2.30pm Sat 28th July, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
Its been a good few weeks since our scratch at BAC, and we have shown longer works-in-progress at Jumble It Up, in Oxford, and Barbican Theatre in Plymouth, as part of their Ocean project. We have been getting great responses and in a few weeks Tim and Pete will be at PL:ay. The performance will be a little experimental, as we're performing in the Maritime Gallery of Plymouth City Museum!

Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon - To Begin Where I Am, Mokado
5.30pm Sat 28th July, Plymouth College of Art and Design
"Our through line is thin. Thin enough to be passed through a hole in your ear, thin enough to floss your teeth with and yet this is the fibre we dangle upon."

'To Begin Where I Am, Mokado' explores the intensities of seperation, loss and longing - the difficulties of saying goodbye, the uncertainties of being parted and the confusion of being reunited.

"When we can't touch, words are all we have and words fail us."

"What shade of blue is longing?"

"So we'll dance and we'll do, we will listen and venture outside. I hate to watch you go, but I love to watch you leave."