Ours Was the Fen Country
From: Wednesday, 8th May 2013
To: Saturday, 11 May 2013
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Synopsis
For the past two years Dan Canham has been capturing conversations with people of the fens in East Anglia. Eel-catchers, farmers, parish councillors, museum keepers, molly dancers and conservationists have all been interviewed. In this ethereal piece of dance-theatre, Dan and his team fuse movement and sound with the words and memories of their native collaborators to get to the heart of this beautiful, bleak and mysterious expanse of flat land.
Our Review:
Simon Harvey-Williams - 9 May 2013
The Fens in Norfolk has been described as a manscape. The land has been transformed over 6000 years by the area’s inhabitants from dense flooded forests into land which has been drained and used for diverse but somewhat unstable farming. Over the years both nature and the onward march of modern life have threatened the livelihood of the families harvesting the lands and Stillhouse’s production explores the lives of those now living and working in The Fens through recorded interviews, slides, soundscapes and dance. The production also explores the unique wildlife and geography of the area, which many of the interviewees describe as simply ‘flat’.
The snippets of interviews are evocative and brilliantly chosen with some great lines – my favourite being “The only person more powerful than Mother Nature is my nan”. The show uses a mixture of simply playing the recorded dialogue but also has the performers miming along to and voicing the transcripts of the collected words. The latter ...
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MAYK (Producer)
Dan Canham ()
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