Research · 2017 - 2019
Darkness
Research.
Over several years, Saffy collaborated with dance artist Joanna Young on research exploring our relationship with darkness. This manifested in a few key moments.
LEAD ARTIST
Saffy Setohy
COLLABORATOR
Joanna Young
PROJECT 01
A one-to-one guided movement journey, exploring our sensory experience of darkness.
Forefronting senses other than vision, we explored a number of invitations and suggestions which gave attention to the specific and special experience of moving into the night.
Leaning into Darkness
2017
CONTEXT
Part of Sanctuary Lab,
Galloway Forest Dark Skies Park
A READING
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
Wendell Berry · To Know the Dark
PROJECT 02
Dark Matters
A series of participatory encounters exploring darkness, developed during a residency with Dansarena Nord and Dansefestival Barents in Hammerfest, Norway.
Activities took place:
on the beach
building sculptures with the local nursery school
in the library
conversation, movement, drawing and tracing-paper art
in the artist’s house
food, conversation, and a candlelit performance meditation at sunset
2019
CONTEXT
Residency with Dansarena Nord
and Dansefestival Barents,
Hammerfest, Norway
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