GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
Saffy
Setohy
Socially-engaged dance artist, choreographer & facilitator
Saffy’s work is interdisciplinary, and centres on embodied practices of resonance and listening.
Informed by somatic influences and improvisation, collaboration is at the heart of her work - with human and more-than-human entities.
Image, Kirsty Somerville, from The Garden Series
PRACTICE
Embodied practices of resonance and listening.
Informed by somatic influences and improvisation, collaboration is at the heart of Saffy’s work — with human and more-than-human entities.
Her sensory choreographic practice explores connections between ecology, wellbeing, regeneration and soft activism — to deepen and restore the relationship with ourselves, each other, and the rest of nature.
Saffy is beginning an Associate Artist role with Independent Arts Projects. Watch this space.
FROM BODIES OF WATER
Image, Julia Bauer
MOST RECENTLY
HIGHLIGHTED WORKS
RESEARCH
The Garden Series
In collaboration with Claire Pençak · Gartnavel Royal Hospital & Walled Garden, Glasgow
Working with staff, patients and volunteers, the project explores our relationship with plant life — how it might enliven and affect us, and our sense of belonging.
RESIDENCY
Arran, Still Rising
Clyde Bioregion Artist Residencies · Isle of Arran · with Claire Pençak.
A community-engaged residency exploring the deep time past, present and future of the island through practices of ‘embodied bioregionalism’ — engaging with local archaeology, ecology and rewilding.
PERFORMANCE
Bodies of Water
A sensory, participatory performance installation · Made with a collective of artist-collaborators.
Available for small-scale urban or rural venues, and festival presentation. Made through a community-embedded approach.