Commonplace Book is a way of sharing extracts, fragments, notes and reflections throughout the development of Into the Mountain. It creates the possibility for containing multiple voices and experiences involved in the project.
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Winter Walk
Tumbling mist crossing the hillside opening frames of landscape. Quietness descends with gentle windblown mist. So light only breath is moving it along. A pasture […]
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How The Earth Must See Itself
How The Earth Must See Itself is a new short film project conceived and developed by Simone Kenyon and filmmaker Lucy Cash. It is created […]
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Into The Mountain – A Meet
Into The Mountain – A Meet brought together practitioners and enthusiasts interested in the intersections and conversations between the arts, dance, mountain and hill walking […]
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Placefulness
Earlier in the research process for Into the Mountain, we were joined by Jean Langhorne, who led us on one of her favourite walks from […]
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Erlend Clouston on Nan Shepherd
Erlend Clouston, long-term friend and literary executor of the Scottish poet and writer Nan Shepherd, talked intimately about his personal relationship with Nan on the […]
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With Gentle Interest
Gather and receive the core 5 sensual elements. Distil each essence – sight, smell, sound, taste, touch. Let the distillation enter Let it explore With […]
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GROUP(S)
Dance makers / Performers first day of research with Eco- Psychologist Margaret Kerr. Two days of mindfulness practices, slowing down, observation of bodily and environmental […]
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Recce
Walking Routes and site considerations with Heather Morning from Mountaineering Scotland.
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Mountain Leader Training (a return to)
After losing confidence in her Summer Mountain Leader training, Simone takes the training course again after a 10 year gap in preparation for this project. […]
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Into The Mountain (Solo)
Into The Mountain (Solo) programme image and research notes. The performance explored the relationship between mountaineering experiences and dance improvisational strategies.
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Solo Creative Expeditions
“What more there is lies within the mountain. Something moves between it and me. Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both […]
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Winter Bodily Appendages
Practise of crampon walking and ice axe breaking down from Cairngorm summit. Walking styles and ways to walk will be an recurring theme and particular […]
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Winter Training in the Cairngorms
Perfecting the emergency abseil from a ‘Snow Bollard’.
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Stones / Granite / Riverbed
A temporary collection of stones to study from a water course in the Cairngorms. “The Cairngorms Mountains are a mass of granite thrust up through […]
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Following our noses
A winter weekend of drifting into research and development with artists Siriol Joyner and Laura Bradshaw in Newtonmore in 2015.
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Reading
Reading The Living Mountain during a workshop back in 2013 at abandoned Blackwater Lodge, Cabrach. NE Scotland.
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Nan Shepherd £5 note
‘Summer on the high plateau can be as delectable as honey; it can also be a roaring scourge. To those who love the place, both […]