Ritual 13

Christmas!

Greens and Reds, Christmas Wreaths, Silvers and sparkles, Tinsel and Lights. 

We started the session today by making shapes on the floor with sequined tape. Our shapes caught the light beautifully. We used green and red fabric strips to create abstract wreaths and a red green space. Reflections from shiny silver bowls and mirrors added light shapes.
Of course we finished with a taste of Christmas; pud, pies, oranges and lemons. What a lovely smell too. Merry Christmas everyone!

Ritual 13

Offerings , Silver and Shrines.

Today we have been exploring rituals around offerings and food. We created our own special space using things that caught and reflected the light. We used different sounds to create an atmosphere. We then took our offerings into our special space.

Ritual 12

Rituals of water, light , circles and life.

Using the sounds and music from the Derwent Pulse Project we created flowing watery shapes with our bodies and white silks in red light. The red Pulse light spheres were introduced to carry, move with and pass between us with pulsating sound from Pulse. Swinging light spheres added a new element of circular and elliptical movement.

Ritual 10
Mandela : a spirital ritual representing the universe.

Today we have been exploring the Mandela ritual. We created a circle of hands and developed this into a circular ritual around a cone shaped structure. We then wove strips of coloured fabric and wool before relaxing in our new environment.

Ritual 9

 Journeys through light shadow and  play.

Today we have been  exploring patterns and shapes; finding repetition and change and what they mean to us. What would our own personal ritual look like? 

Ritual 7

Pendulums, swinging swirling sand and more.

Today Visual Arts and Sensory Arts worked together. We used pendulums filled with coloured sand to spread the colours over a large sheet of paper. We then drew additional shapes using brushes and sponges on sticks so we didn't tread too much on the art work. Smaller pictures were made using glue and dried powder paint, we can keep these.

We were also really lucky that Will Hurt was working  on his new project at Level. We were able to work with him to see what is is all about and to help him shape the work.
Wills work work can been seen at Purple Peach at Level Centre on tuesday  November 10th, 6.30-10 pm.




Smaller Pictures

Pendulum drawing

Wills work

and of course there was great music

Rituals 6

Shadow and Sand

We opened our session today with a bell ritual performed in shadow. Using a screen and back lighting we took turns to perform our different rituals using arm movements  and bell ringing. We followed this with vogue style movements both in front of and behind the screen, these can look  like hieroglyphic shapes.  We moved to rhythms created on the key board and a selection of drums. Today we were joined by the visual arts group creating sand shapes on black paper.