Italian Workshop 2015
Performance Writing & Landscape Workshop August 27th – 31st 2015 led by Melanie Thompson in Mantua, Northern Italy See link for full information: Italian P.W Workshop
WAITING FOR THE FLOOD – short film
Been away for a while. Took a well earned sabbatical year from teaching in institutions from Feb 2014 to Feb 2015. In that year started to study cello. Travelled to Italy and Mallorca for hot sea and sand and sun and Denmark for conferences and future planning. August 2014 But … Read more
Sardinia – May 2013
This was an interesting process for me. I was ill in bed with labyrinthitis when I got an email inviting me to a small performance art festival in Sardinia. Because, as always, they wanted information and images immediately I sent one idea and a few old images hoping it would … Read more
Film installation
Just created a film installation in Glastonbury Abbey with 3 projectors back projecting onto 3 windows. It was part of a festival called Orchestra in the Field exploring lots of different music in the Abbeys grounds over 2 days. I wanted my installation to be there as people left in … Read more
Seville April 2012
Visited Seville on my way back from visiting a friend in Cadiz. I have never been to Seville before and always wanted to visit when the orange blossom was out in between Easter and the next fiesta. It was stunning ! every where I went I bumped into orange trees, the … Read more
Scaping the land 4 – video
The most recent scaping the land film is showing in YouTube. This is a short one with just one performer ! Now preparing ideas for the next one – just waiting for the weather to change I want it to be hot.
Scaping the land 3
Just before easter filmed Scaping the Land 3. Hoped for good weather but in fact the cold and damp added something. Now in the process of editing with Boris and Jack T.R – hoping that Todd Speakman will do the sound!!!!!!! Paul Roylance took some great work pics – here … Read more
Scaping the land 2 – video
The 2nd Scaping the Land film made this new year:
Scaping the land lecture
Part 1 Perceptions of Landscape I do not distinguish between inner and outer landscapes, between the environment as the physical world out there (the “hard” stuff) and the mental image of the environment within each and every individual (the “soft” stuff). It is the tension, the transition, the exchange, and … Read more