BETWEEN HERE AND THERE
A collaboration between Molly Sturges and The Fathom Project.
First commissioned in 2008 by The Stockton Riverside International Arts Festival and Dance City (UK).
Between Here and There, a commission from Dance City, is the first phase of a long-term project exploring notions of home, transition, migration and displacement based in the Stockton area.† This piece, developed over 10 days, is the initial framework of a longer term effort that aims to enact lasting social change through in-depth participatory art making.
The piece is the result of a collaboration between The Fathom Project, artistic director and composer Molly Sturges, a range of singers from both Stockton and Newcastle and Stockton community members. Based upon conversations with people who have experienced, or are experiencing, what it is to be without a home, conversations with homeless service providers and the artists,this work begins to ask a series of questions which will inform further growth. Themes such as rejection and belonging have emerged as central areas of inquiry.
This piece is constructed from a series of improvisational structures specifically developed for this material, this group of performers and this space. Investigations into the relationship between vocalizing and moving has been central to our creative work together. Restaging of the piece will take place in the summer of 2009.
