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Goat Song is our current show.
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WORKSHOPS
Movement and Text Improvisation Workshops
coming up soon...
Artists Talk about practice-led research, recently at Front Room Theatre, Weston Super Mare, more coming soon
Imagining Beyond: The Eeriness of Place
a talk with Mary Steadman of Dust Ensemble
The recent “Folk Horror’ revival is gaining momentum, and Dust Ensemble’s work, although not ‘horror’ per se, draws more on the Eerie to ask: What is unsettling things? Why are things not what they seem?
By sharing extracts from our performances, inspired by the eeriness of place —such as a derelict mansion in Dwelling, unsettling landscapes in This is The Land, and in our recent performance, Goat Song —which exlores themes of death in a town that has fallen into an eerie silence. The talk will explore the eeriness of place, opening to you the audience to share your stories as a starting point for imagining the Eerie; by involving you in various activities and interactions about stories of ‘place’ that have an eerie presence of the past, which unsettles - Weston-Super-Mare (and beyond).
What is mysterious about these places? How can the eerie inspire stories that deal with the mysterious and the unknown - and why is this so relevant now?
Mary’s recent PhD research examines the Eerie in Performance, through her work with her company, Dust Ensemble. Exploring the current resurgence of the Eerie, which Robert Macfarlane wrote about in The Eeriness of the English Countryside’ (Guardian, 2015) and Mark Fisher’s ‘The Weird and the Eerie’, written one year later. Fisher unpacks the ‘weird’ as ‘horror’ - as the presence of something that should not be - and the ‘eerie’ as an unseen presence of absence or absence of presence in places.