January 8 - 10

A three day, earth-wide gathering of women dancers and public, online

Streamed live from Out There, Great Yarmouth, UK

Talks, live conversations and wild dance films to move us through dance, rage and womanhood, into sanctuary

Public event details

Keynote talks, live conversations and wild dance films

Talks:

January 8, 14:30 GMT: Feminine Rage in Folklore and Mythology. What could we learn about the role and function of female rage in the world by looking at how it has turned up and unfolded in myth, history and folklore? Speaker TBC.

January 9, 14:30 GMT: Sustainability? What could it best look like for dance to be ‘sustainable’? And the power of the arts as carrier of urgent messages. Aaron Matthews, who led ALBERT, the intervention on environmental sustainability for film and tv, for its first seven years, will be joining us to talk this through.

January 10, 14:30 GMT: The much forgotten role of watching dance; part of the tapestry of human health. Hayley J S Matthews, Dancer, Rolfer and Care Take of Sanctuary on the Fault Line will be aiding us to see what science can now help us re-member; that simply to watch dance is deep neurological nourishment that helps us move through events and emotions as individuals, communities that seem impossible to move through.

Live conversations:

Live conversations are hosted each evening by dancer, Sanctuary on the Fault Line member and Dance Dialogues Podcast host Rachel Elderkin. Each evening Rachel will talk live to fellow dancers of the network and guests around wildness, dance and womanhood.

8th January, 20:00 GMT: Women's Movements: how is it that women’s movements and their movements or dancing in the world, often unearth themes of purpose, well-being, meaning, consciousness, nature as teacher and connection?

9th January , 20:00 GMT: Experiencing wild dances: in the last year some of the professional women dancers of the sanctuary on the fault line movement have been conducting research that tracks the emotional states in the audiences that come to their dances, we will be sharing this and talking around it. (hook divergent audiences in here - parents and neurodivergent)

10th January, 20:00 GMT: Unblocking the paths of belonging: discussing trespassing, wild water swimming, footpaths, by-ways and dancing without permission as necessary responses to access belonging in a post clearings and colonised world

Film screenings:

A chance to watch wild dance films by the women on Sanctuary on the Fault Line

8th January 21:00 GMT: FERAL by Daisy Black ~ F E R A L – (adj.) in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication – a year-long project by aerial performer Daisy Black and her Mind Reader turned Film Maker husband Alex McAleer of Gossamer Thread Circus. A series of 3 short films shot over 2021 across the Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, and Autumn Equinox. These explore a reconnection with the land, marking these pivotal moments of the year and draw on folklore that has anchored us to these natural processes throughout history. And also the act of rewilding, ecological processes and the intersection of art and activism. During the months of lockdown many of us have experienced the myriad health benefits of engaging with nature, and this in turn has highlighted the natural catastrophes we are now facing. Made on location at Ken Hill Re-Wilding site, Norfolk, UK.

(45 minutes)

9th January , 21:00 GMT FRACTURED LANDSCAPE a wild dance film by Rachel Elderkin. Filmed on the marshlands in East London, Fractured Landscape explores a space that exists on the edges; a space between the wild and urban, between my inner self and my outer world. I find a sense of belonging in nature; a space where I can rest and return to myself, away from the restlessness of urban life and the fractious relationship I feel towards our social structures. For me, the marshland landscape embodies that personal experience. It is rich in nature, yet the urban environment is ever present, pushing at its edges. A reminder that I’ve not left that world, or that part of me, behind.

(7 minutes)

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RE-MEMBERING:, amplifying the journey of Athens based dancer Sandra Voulgari, as she took to her roof top every day at dawn to dance in the Sanctuary on the Fault Line movement in 2020 and 2021. The film narrates a story of experiencing pandemic times and putting the pieces back together though the liberation of dancing at dawn with the Athens skyline. Film by Alistair H M Simmons and Hayley J S Matthews with footage by and inspired by dancer Sandra Volugari.

(15 minutes)

10th January, 21:00 GMT LAKES OF ANIMA; FROM LIGHT TO DARKNESS, a wild solo work made by contemporary dancer Hayley J S Matthews, as she pulled the gestures of her experience into dance over our first pandemic year, and danced them for audiences on Hampstead Heath, London, UK, leaning into the the woman within her as sanctuary in the uncertainty. Her husband Alistair H M Simmons here captures a run of this dance. Each time Hayley dances this solo she allows the red oak woodland on Hampstead Heath, the seasons, the weather, the light, the darkness, the wild life and the passers by to dance through her and her choreography, as well as her own history and experience.

Public events Daily Schedule (times in GMT):

14:30 Keynote talk

20:00 Live conversation

21:00 Film showings