bouquet: practices of gathering and arranging

bouquet: practices of gathering and arranging

A two-day workshop with Katye Coe, Cath Cullinane and Amy Voris

28 - 29 November 2026

Wainsgate Chapel, Hebden Bridge

A bouquet is an offering for celebration and condolence - singular things gathered into something else, poised between bloom and decay, fullness and dispersal.  It holds within it gestures of gathering and letting go and the impulse to mark what is passing.

This two-day workshop is for creative practitioners interested in embodied practice, movement and site-responsive approaches to making work.  Drawing inspiration from the performance work bouquet and the ongoing artistic dialogue between Katye Coe, Cath Cullinane and Amy Voris, the workshop is informed by an understanding of choreography as inseparable from embodied experience.  Together, we will explore composition as a process of gathering and arranging, attending to the rich interplay between movement and place and to the traces we hold and carry.

Mornings will consist of closely guided experiential movement practices drawing on embodied anatomy and improvisational frameworks.  Through solo, duet, and group explorations, participants will investigate how bodily experience, in relation to place, can generate compositional possibilities. Afternoons will open into more spacious and self-directed creative processes.  Working throughout the chapel and its grounds, participants will develop personal and collaborative approaches to gathering and arranging.  Alongside practical exploration, there will be opportunities for reflection and conversation.

As part of the workshop, Katye will share a rendition of bouquet offering participants an opportunity to encounter the work alongside some of the questions and processes from which it has emerged.