Simone Kenyon is a performer, artist and producer born in Bradford, West Yorkshire.[1] She works extensively with walking, and in collaboration with other artists and dancers. In 2006, with the dancer Tamara Ashley, she made 'The Pennine Way: The Legs that Make Us', a durational art project in the form of a walk,[2] creating a performance lecture about the project for ROAM a weekend of walking at Loughborough University in 2008,[3] and a book published by Brief Magnetics in 2007.[4] With Andrew Brown and Katie Doubleday she instigated the 'Open City' project in 2006, exploring the organisation and control of behaviour in the public realm.[5] Kenyon worked with Deveron Arts in Huntly, Aberdeenshire on the founding of their "Walking Institute"[6] and completed a commission 'Hielan' Ways' - a long distance walk in the Cairngorms in 2013-14.[7] She has also completed walking-based work Step by Step, 2013 for Dance4 in collaboration with Neil Callaghan.[8] Kenyon is connected with the Walking Artists Network.[9]
Works
editInto the Mountain (2019) took place in the Cairgorm mountains in Scotland. Produced by the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, audiences undertook walks through the landscape encountering dancers on the route.[10] The project was inspired by the writings of Nan Shepherd and celebrates women's relationships with high and wild places.[11]
References
edit- ^ "South East Dance - Striding Out Of The Body And Into The Mountain". southeastdance.org.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ Heddon, Deirdre; Turner, Cathy (1 May 2012). "Walking Women: Shifting the Tales and Scales of Mobility" (PDF). Contemporary Theatre Review. 22 (2): 224–236. doi:10.1080/10486801.2012.666741. ISSN 1048-6801.
- ^ "Radar - Project - Roam: A Weekend of Walking - Spring 2008 - Tamara Ashley - Loughborough Arts". www.arts.lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ Ashley, Tamara; Kenyon, Simone (2007). The Legs that Make Us. Brief Magnetics. ISBN 978-0954907310.
- ^ Cocker, Emma (2011) 'Performing Stillness', in Bissell, D. and Fuller G. Stillness in a Mobile World, Routledge, p.88
- ^ Walking Institute
- ^ "Simone Kenyon: In the Footsteps of Nan Shepherd - Deveron Arts". www.deveron-arts.com. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ "Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon: Step by Step | Dance4". dance4.co.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ "The Walking Artists Network".
- ^ Moorhead, Joanna (29 May 2019). "Formation dancing with space blankets – and other wild ways to climb a mountain". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ "Into The Mountain - Simone Kenyon - 2019". Scottish Sculpture Workshop. Retrieved 23 January 2020.