Emma Bush - Fields

Emma Bush - Fields

Saturday 31st May
12.30pm
The Ship
Dartington Hall
Totnes
UK

A free event

On Saturday afternoon Emma will perform Fields.

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.

Emma Bush is an artist working in the field of performance investigating places and how we find ourselves there - our approach, our looking, our breathing.

She asks questions like "How do places travel with us (or into a theatre); a bridge, a cathedral, a field, an empty house?" For the project 'Fields' Emma spent time in conversation with a geologist, a farmer and an oceanographer. Other ongoing research includes collecting a list of shadows found on the sides of houses.

Emma is a founder member of propeller and is developing a series of lectures and workshops with Pete Harrison (also of propeller) which look at range of subjects including; rain, wilderness, plant and animal sensitivity to weather systems, light and visual orientation.

She is also currently collaborating with Neil Callaghan, Leigh Farmer and Catherine and Teresa Grimaldi to produce a new children's book and performance.