Grimspound



Performance | 40min | Sentient Performativities: Thinking Alongside the Human Symposium | Dartmoor | UK

Grimspound is a site-responsive performance rooted in the ruins of a Late Bronze Age settlement on Dartmoor. Carried by wind, peat, and the echo of ritual, the piece invites performers and audience into a living encounter with ancestral time and elemental presence.

Through Butoh-based sensorial poetry, improvisation, and somatic listening, the work engages with the deep memory of the land—its phantom forms, sensuous textures, and ecological intelligences. The performers become mediums of transformation, letting their bodies dissolve and reform in response to stone, sky, moss, and myth.

How can we dance as offering? How can movement become a prayer to place, an act of remembering through the skin? It is a call to reinhabit the porous body, to enter the dream of the land, and to move as one with its quiet, enduring pulse.

Performance: Anna Kushnerova & Tim Russell

Music: Tom Wheatley

Costumes: Jack Davey