Faraway Dances

Posted: May 2022     

'Faraway Dances' is a series of dances improvised on Zoom with dancers we still see only on Zoom, as they are in families still shielding or as they are far away.

5 zoom boxes 3 on top with solo dancers, young woman with long dark hair dark top golg blurred abckground, young man in red in a garden, older man in black and white in a room 2 boxes below balck adn white, woman with grey hair, dark glasses and dark top singing and woman with dark hair tied back and dark top standing

'Wade in the Water' the first of Shallal Dance Theatres Faraway (zoom) Dances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycphL-SHLQ0&t=1s

Created with dancers we can still only meet on zoom.

This one is dedicated to those who have to leave their homes to flee for refuge and safety.
Recorded on 25.2.22 including dancers/artists in Cornwall and Spain.
The song is from 'A Call to Home.'


The dance is spontaneously improvised and there is BSL/SSE.( British Sign Language/Sign Supported English).


These zoom 'home movies' enable us to keep creating sharing and working together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N_KjSm3_N8&t=71s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH5k90rik-s wonderful Wheeler familys' recording of 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot'

 

screen divided in 3 rectangluar boxes top black and white woman with grey hair second box two women in white hugging in a garden lower box woman with long dark hair and dark long sleeve top looking at her raised left hand