DEEP TIME MOVING
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Deep Time Moving is a long-term accumulation of movement-led work & play, initiated by 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
CURRENT DEEP TIME MOVING EVENTS
On Monday 28th April 2025, Kyra will be leading a Deep Time Moving class for Gather Up in Bristol, as part of Gather Up Presents....
"Starting with simple movement prompts and improvisational scores, we will find our way through a series of moving environments, together: settling/ unsettling, folding, drifting, forming/re-forming, fragmenting, rest. You will be supported to find your own route into, and through, some deliciously complex, nuanced moving and thinking, and leave with an enlivened curiosity about our individual and collective embodied experience of space and time."
This class is fully booked, but you can join the waiting list here.
From 26th April – 13th June 2025, the Deep Time Moving process films series will be installed at Tremenheere Gallery, as part of The Land Will Call You Home, a group show curated by Samuel Bassett exploring our deep connection to the land, how we arrive from it, live within it, and ultimately return to it.
Delighted to be showing this work alongside: Simon Bayliss, Samuel Bassett, Ro Robertson, Libita Sibungu, Charlie Duck, Chantel Powell, Arthur Lanyon, Ben Sanderson, Nina Royle, Orla Kane, Siobhan McLaughlin, Joe Packer, Carlos Zapata, Katrina Naomi, Tegen Mor Tossell, Ali Bassett, Jamie Mills, Sharp, Rosanna Martin, Andy Harper.
On 18th and 19th May, Kyra will be leading public Deep Time Moving workshops at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, to coincide with the show. Further info coming soon...
Stills from Deep Time Moving process films. Choreographer: Kyra Norman. Film: Eleanor Sikorski. Sound: Shirley Pegna. Dancers: Winona Guy, Talia Sealey, Claud Tonietto. Producer: Liz Howell.
In June and July, Kyra will host a Deep Time Moving Practice Group (online).
An affordable, carefully developed opportunity for artists working in any discipline, whose work engages in some way with ideas and practices of movement, time and place.
If you're an artist with 3+ years' training or professional experience, and you would like to commit some time to deepening and enriching your creative practice as part of a supportive and inspiring group, this might be for you.
To join the mailing list and receive further information, or if you have questions, email kyra.norman@gmail.com with the subject line: DEEP TIME MOVING PRACTICE GROUP.
DEEP TIME MOVING EVENTS IN 2024
MUSEUM LATE: DEEP TIME MOVING
Part of Royal Cornwall Museum's Mineral Series: Cornwall, Mexico and Mars
NOVEMBER 2024
For this special event in partnership with Royal Cornwall Museum, dancer and choreographer Kyra Norman led a creative exploration of the newly reopened Mineral Gallery, including a series of practical listening, writing and movement tasks, sharing some practices and materials from ongoing movement-led artwork, Deep Time Moving
A unique opportunity to expand your senses of how we can experience and imagine deep time and our relationship to the rocks beneath our feet
Deep Time Moving is a long-term movement-led artwork unfolding in response to the unique geology of the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall. Find out more here
This Deep Time Moving event is supported by:
DEEP TIME MOVING workshop at Wainsgate Dances
What can we, as moving bodies on a moving planet, learn from the ground beneath our feet?
NOVEMBER 2024
It was an absolute pleasure to bring some Deep Time Moving action and thinking to Wainsgate Dances, in Hebden Bridge, in November 2024. - booking link archived, here
This workshop at Wainsgate Dances set out to unpack some of the movement materials and strategies that inform this ongoing interdisciplinary work. It began with a question:
"What can we, as moving bodies on a moving planet, learn from an imaginative attention to the deep time geological movement processes of the ground beneath our feet?"
This Deep Time Moving event is supported by:
For all the current DEEP TIME MOVING news, see the project website, https://www.deeptimemoving.co.uk/
DEEP TIME MOVING at Ashburton Arts, Devon
Live performance & informal post-show chat
APRIL 2024
(L-R): Winona Guy, Claud Tonietto, Talia Sealey. Photo: Steve Tanner
Deep Time Moving brings together dance and geology in a playful exploration of place and environment: how might an embodied imagining of the long distant past help us to imagine the new futures we need?
Expect sounds from out on the cliffs and under the Atlantic Ocean, costumes fit for the walking holidays of your dreams, and exquisite movement inspired by rocks, water and rural rituals. There will be an informal opportunity to discuss the ideas and processes that have informed the performance, after the show
This performance is part of Tinner's Moon Festival at Ashburton Arts
CREDITS
Deep Time Moving at Ashburton Arts, April 2024, 6pm
Concept & Choreography: Kyra Norman
Dancers/ Performers/ Devisers: Winona Guy, Talia Sealey, Claud Tonietto
Sound Recording & Composition: Shirley Pegna
Sound Mixing: Chris Fayers
Costumes: Theo Clinkard
With thanks to Liz Howell, Producer & Engagement Lead for Deep Time Moving action research in 2023 and ongoing project collaborator: together we continue to develop new ways forward with this work, into 2024 and beyond
With thanks to Beth Simons, collaborating geologist for Deep Time Moving in 2023 and ongoing advisor and friend to the project
With thanks to Angus Balbernie for all the support and encouragement
Thanks to all at Ashburton Arts for support-in-kind and general artist-led solidarity. We are grateful to be part of the diverse, exciting programme that this venue shares with the local community, if you're near, go get involved: https://ashburtonarts.org.uk/
Dancers (L-R): Claud Tonietto, Talia Sealey, Winona Guy. Photos: Steve Tanner
This performance of Deep Time Moving is supported by:
DEEP TIME MOVING EVENTS IN 2023
Dancers: Talia Sealey, Claud Tonietto, Winona Guy Photo: Steve Tanner
From June - November 2023, we received Project funding from Arts Council England, and additional support from FEAST and Cornwall Council to bring together a brilliant team of experienced artists and researchers to develop a new movement-led interdisciplinary performance work together, here in remote, rural Cornwall, UK.
Our process included open research events in village halls and community spaces, at the Museum of Cornish Life, at Kestle Barton, with Mullion School, at CAST and out on the South West Coast Path around Lizard Point, at Poltesco and Gunwalloe, involving more than 100 co-researchers of all ages, as well as focused R&D and rehearsal time with our creative team (see below).
Our first public performances took place on Saturday 18th November 2023. Thanks to everyone that made these shows possible, and supported in many and varied ways, including: AMATA, The Bookshop in Helston, CAST, Epworth Hall, The Exchange, Helston Theatre Company, Inner Space Newlyn, Kestle Barton, Lizard Reading Room, Minack Theatre, Mullion School, Shallal, SHARP, Theo Carter-Weber, TRELYA, Trevow Helston & our fantastic team of volunteers.
For further information, see the Deep Time Moving website, here
FURTHER INFORMATION
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
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
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