Fields (Extract)

Playful and poetic, Fields (Extract) is a compelling performance that draws the audience into a textured landscape of stone, where patterns of dwelling are made and unmade, shaped by land, by time and human hands.

The episodic narrative, offers snapshots of lives lived out amidst stony ground where duration expands to take in the enduring labour of ages past, present and perhaps yet to come.

Layered with detail and played out to an intermittent sound score of live and recorded sound, images emerge of agricultural labouring, the toil of turning stony ground and defending territories.

And finally at the end of the day, the scraping of boots and a laying down to rest on pillows of stone.

Fields (extract) is performed by dance makers Merav Israel and Claire Pençak who have been dancing together for 15 + years and share a practice around scored performance.

The sound score is by Nik Paget-Tomlinson with Jem Le Lievre.