Years of Fun to come at the Fairground

This work is an ongoing collaboration with dancer Rozálie Stárová.

Inspired by the landscape and architecture of a local fairground in South Wales that is being closed and torn down after almost a century of life. This work pulls inspiration from the architectural qualities of the deteriorating stalls and fairground structures juxtaposed by its eternal surroundings, the sea and the calm of the ever-expanding horizon. The contrast of these spaces and finding the world that sits between is the driving force of the movement development and research for this duet. We attempt to inhabit those liminal spaces, between the coast and the man-made, filled with history and memory, and find ways for our bodies to converse and become a living archive for the stories and years that have passed at this site. Delving into these unexpected community and cultural landscapes offers us as dance artists an insight into the connectivity that these spaces supply. We are interested in the representation of this connectivity, imagining our own flesh as a way to communicate these stories from one body to another, from one culture to another. Attempting to embody this detached feeling of displacement, of something missing, of a gaping hole being left both spatially and within a community.