C-DaRE Invites… Helen Poynor and Kyra Norman

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Helen and Kyra will present their work as part of the new Body and Land C-DaRE Invites... series.

Artist and dancer Kyra Norman and movement artist Helen Poynor will present their recent collaboration Weathered – an encounter between two weathered bodies, a woman and a large tree washed up on the Jurassic Coast, west of Lyme Regis in Dorset South West England.

Helen and Kyra will share a series of images and writings from the work and talk about their working and creative processes. There will be time and space for discussion and exchange, bring writing and/or drawing materials. In keeping with their own embodied practices and the subject matter addressed by the Body and Land series the artists specifically requested that this should be a live presentation rather than being mediated through remote technologies.

Biographies

Kyra Norman works in dance, performance, film and contemporary art contexts, as an artist, performer, choreographer, researcher, educator, and instigator of live events. Her work explores ideas and practices of movement, connection and place, through live performance, screen media, writing and participatory gatherings. She lives on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, UK, and current work, Deep Time Moving, is a long-term response to this place: considering our experience as moving bodies on a moving planet, and what we might learn from an imaginative attention to the ground beneath our feet.

Helen Poynor is an independent movement artist specialising in environmental and autobiographical performance and cross art-form collaborations. She runs the Walk of Life Workshop and Training programme in non-stylised and environmental movement. Helen lives and works on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in East Devon/West Dorset in the UK.

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