Woven Land

WOVEN LAND is a participatory audio guided choreography for parks and woodlands.

Invite a group of up to 20 people, download an audio track to your phone, gather in a park or woodland, press play in synchronicity and begin a journey.

You are guided through a series of solo and collaborative movement tasks via Vanessa Grasse’s poetic narration, that invites you to intimately immerse yourselves within the surroundings, be playful with found natural materials and interact with the group safely;

creating a ritual of ecological and social interconnectivity.

WOVEN LAND is part of The Land We Are wider project.

The Land We Are offers a variety of creative activities in woodlands and green spaces. Inviting us to fully experience through our body, our movement, our senses and our physicality, to revive our connection with and care for trees, the land and natural ecosystems.

Experiencing through the body is a fundamental way of knowing which allows us to find deeper, meaningful and emphatic connections.

Language: English

Duration: 1h

Credits:

Choreographed, written and narrated by Vanessa Grasse
Recording, editing and soundscape by Oliver Dover

Vanessa Grasse is a dance and multidisciplinary artist from Sicily, based in Leeds, UK.

She explores the crossover between choreography, walking-art and installation, as a vehicle for somatic experiencing and engaging with public spaces, through site-responsive, ecological, improvisational, participatory, and cross-disciplinary practices.

Vanessa’s work has been commissioned by Dance4, The Great Exhibition of The North, Dance City, Yorkshire Dance, Still Walking Festival, The University of Leeds, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, amongst many others; and it has toured across the UK, Europe and East Asia.. She is a Dance Partner Project Artist at Yorkshire Dance with her current project The Land We Are funded by The English Arts Council.