Celebrating

Celebrating the life of Van Gough. 125 years ago on July 29th Vincent Van Gough died.
Sunflowers, French food, dance and music in a French Cafe. have a good summer everyone! See you in Spetember.

Ritual 2
Water and Earth

Building on the work we did last week, we decorated our faces, arms and  hands with clay and flower petals. We ladled and poured water, passing bowls between us. We moved to sounds and rythms created on drums, keyboard and voice. 

Lunar Landing

What would it be like to walk on the moon?  What would we find if we went there?

Today we launched from the Level Centre in a rocket and headed for the moon. Exiting the rocket through the air lock we headed for the nearest crater where we explored the surface, collected rock samples and experienced low gravity activity.

Lunar Landscapes

A trip into space took us through the satellite belt and on into outer space before landing on the moon. 

After a fantastic Purple Peach Club Night where our chill out room was showing a sound and space installation by artist Andy Wlliams, today we took a rocket into space to land in the installation. We took a walk in space, explored the lunar landscape, collected rock samples before finally landng back on earth.

Changing Landscapes

Still exploring contours and landscapes, today we have been shaping using gravity and force.

From a large stretched net we created valleys,  mountains and underground caves and spaces.

Contour and Colour

Shaping new landscapes using sand and projection.

By pouring, shaping and moulding the sand we created new mountains and valleys, new landscapes and scenes. We used the photos from previous weeks work to project  onto the  landscapes. We also made slides and projected these too.

Cave Painting
Today we have been creating our own cave paintings ready to decorate the cave next week.  First we explored movements and actions that could inspire us in our work. We moulded and moved our bodies and shaped ours too. Then, with clay on sticks we drew onto our cave floor, making one big picture.

Geological Journeys

This year Level Centre will be exhibiting at Cresswell Crags as part of the Limestone Journeys Project so today we started our journey, exploring  texture, contour, light, dark, layers and all kinds of themes inspired by geology. We have started with mud, glorious mud; it's texture and qualities. After creating a swamp we travelled through, over and under it. The amazing vocal sounds and keyboard music produced by our performers inspired some fantastic atmospheric movement and imagery.

Sensations Re-Act

Soft Silk, Smells and Sensations.

Today we used a parachute we created a billowing silk tent that we could sit in.We introduced scented strips of fabric; greens, reds, orange and yellow; peppermint, lemon and vanilla. We had tastes of strawberries, oranges, lemons and peppermint creams. mmmm! Sharing soft sounds and memories we sat under our colour lit silken canopy. 
We won't be meeting for a couple of weeks so do join us on April 15th when our next series of session will start.

Sound, Colour  and Sculpture. Re-Act

Today was all about using the skills we have been working on over the past few weeks.  We made textural sounds to inspire movement and sculpture building; coloured by projected drawings and also visa versa! After spending sometime exploring what possible, we finished by all working together to create a space full of interesting sounds and music, movement with fixed and moving sculptures.

Colour Me Re-Act

Last Wednesday we created a space  of layered nets, paper and white light. Though the session our space changed as we made cascades of sculpted paper and added colour through digital drawings.

Sounds Re-Act

Our space was filled with cubicles of different  sounds. Metal, wood, drumskins,  keyboard  and microphone. We explored the different sounds that the instruments made and then played together to build a soundscape. Our grand finale  included solos and duets.

Lights, Shadows and Creepy creatures

Participants in Sensory Arts experimented with creating shadows with their bodies using stage lighting and torches.

White Light Re-Act

Today we experimented with shape, shadow and ultra violet light.  Threading, weaving and building sculptures to move through and in, we created an amazing event. We made rhythmical and lyrical sounds to add to our textural journey.

Light + Spaces

14 January 

A fantastic creative day working with the theme re-ACT. Magical encounters of dancing lights in a billowing environment.