DEEP TIME MOVING
Deep Time Moving is a long-term accumulation of movement-led work & play, initiated by dance-trained artist & choreographer Kyra Norman, working with an expanding team of inspiring collaborators: specialists in movement, performance, sound, design, geology, education, photography & film
Unfolding in response to the unique geology of the Lizard peninsula, in Cornwall, UK
workshops, walks, talks, performances, community events, films and publications - here and elsewhere
Photos (by Kyra Norman unless otherwise stated): Upper left: Claud Tonietto, Gunwalloe; Centre: Serpentine rock, Poltesco: Upper right: Winona Guy, Gunwalloe; Lower Left: Kyra Norman, Poltesco (photo: Hannah Jamieson); Lower right: Talia Sealey, Gunwalloe
For all the current DEEP TIME MOVING news, see the project website, https://www.deeptimemoving.co.uk/
ABOUT THE LIZARD PENINSULA
The Lizard peninsula in Cornwall is the most southerly point in mainland Britain, surrounded on 3 sides by the ocean with the Helford river to the North. The name 'Lizard' is believed to comes from the Cornish, Lys Ardh ('high court').
"The Lizard [peninsula in Cornwall, UK]... manages to be both remarkably austere but also, at a smaller scale, riotously exuberant in its rocks and plants. This odd, unsettling combination of bleak and beautiful, of austere and vibrant, is at the root of the strong reaction many people feel to the Lizard's unusual and compelling landscape." https://friendly-guides.uk/pages/lizard-peninsula
These rocks have the remarkable knack of being, so boldly, the 'wrong' thing, in the 'wrong' place, at the 'wrong' time, and celebrated for it. From the specifics of rocks, routes, and remembering, each Deep Time Moving event opens out into broader conversations about what it might mean to belong (to a place, to a time, to a community) and how we connect to place
Current questions
How might we physically imagine, embody and amplify aspects of the deep time movement processes that form this particular place?
In a time of climate crisis, how might we learn from the ways that the physical material of the Earth, here, adapts to challenge and change?
How might it shift us to really feel that we are each porous, provisional, interrelated, subject to pressure, continually made new: and each of us forming, in some part, the ground for others' experience of the world?
Photo: Kyra Norman, of Talia Sealey, Winona Guy, Gunwalloe