Drop in the Ocean

a performance installation on walking & water

Drop in the Ocean
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Hereford, 2013

(scroll down for Aberystwyth, 2015 gallery)

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2. Buckets

3. Circles

4. Collecting

5. Fetching

7. Pouring

8. Spinning (colour)

10. Spinning Milkmaid

11. Standing on the Edge

12. Standing on the Jetty

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13. Walking (mono)

1. Yoke

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Drop at afon

Drop in the Ocean has most recently been performed in and around Abercych, West Wales between the times of high and low tide on the River Teifi ~ 8:33 am – 3.23 pm ~ on Saturday 14 Sept 2019 for afon micro-festival of dance and performance.

Before that, it was performed in and around Ipswich from 1-3 November 2018 for SPILL Festival of Performance in Aberystwyth 29 April – 5 May 2015 and in Hereford 14-19 October 2013.

If you have ever made a wish during any of the Drop performances and would like to share anything more about the experience, please do follow the ‘Contact’ link above to get in touch with me. It would be lovely to hear from you! With heartfelt thanks for stopping and wishing, Jess
“Only in contemplation of [water] do I achieve true self-forgetfulness and feel my own limited individuality merge into the universal”

Thomas Mann
What would the world be, once bereft | Of wet and of wildness?

Let them be left, | O let them be left, wildness
and wet; | Long live the weeds and the wilderness
yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins Inversnaid 1918
Water sustains all Life.

Her songs begin in the tiniest raindrops,
transform to flowing rivers, travel by majestic
oceans and thundering clouds, and back to
earth, to begin again. When water is threatened,
all living things are threatened.

Hopi Indian Indigenous Declaration on Water 2001
Drop in the Ocean |dräp in ðē ˈō sh ən|

a very small amount compared with what is
needed or expected :
dropintheocean.org.uk

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D R O P • • • I’m delighted & honoured to have been invited to perform #dropintheocean again this weekend for Afon, a micro-festival of performance at Abercych, West Wales curated by Maynard, focused around, celebrating & honouring the Rivers (Afonydd) Cych & Teifi. There is a wonderful range of performative delights all weekend as well as a full moon twmpath on Saturday evening (ticket info and more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/451657838954342/?ti=icl) • • Edrych ymlaen!

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