Reclaiming the Myths of Dartmoor

 

This performance project is based on an original idea by Susan Taylor, who wrote and retold tales from various sources. Simon Williams contributed poems and songs and all musical arrangements are by Howard Frey and Julia Thomas

 

Paula Cloonan contributed the inspirational illustrations for the CD, progammes, etc

 

a Tarka Country Millennium Awards funded project

 

 

 

 

Fresco Poetry Chairs

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Fresco Poetry Chairs

 

 This exciting project combined a chair design by Colin Whybrow, poems by Susan Taylor and  calligraphy and illustration by Paula Cloonan to produce two bespoke pieces of art furniture.

 

Both chairs can be seen in magnificent gardens in Devon - in the National Trust garden at Greenway, former home of Agatha Christie, and in the Dartington Hall gardens, near Totnes.

 

Project funded by Arts & Business South West, Fresco Furniture and Devon Artsculture

 

 

 

 

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Woman of the Water - A promenade performance for Totnes Festival

 

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  In September 2007, the second Totnes Lantern Festival featured the Woman of the Water and her spectacular cohort of sea monster, jellyfish, dolphin, whale, seahorse, sea nymphs, octopus and many more aquatic creatures all created out of huge lanterns. (the blue whale was life-size!)

 

Susan Taylor & Simon Williams wrote and performed a storyline and Woman of the Water chant in tune with the Procession up the High Street to the Castle for an awe-inspiring firework finale.

Catch a glimpse of Woman of the Water shrouded in darkness & drumming on YouTube

totnes lantern procession - fionaskene

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TEMPLE OF NOTHING

 

On a blank-white-canvas, glamorous, stunning, cheeky, real, raw and true. 15 extraordinary women writer/performers/artists merge and intertwine to create the first of a series of earth quaking performances, giving birth to new myths, and exploding conventional icons and traditions.

It’s time. It's showtime.