Dance makers / Performers first day of research with Eco- Psychologist Margaret Kerr. Two days of mindfulness practices, slowing down, observation of bodily and environmental […]

Walking Routes and site considerations with Heather Morning from Mountaineering Scotland.

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. […]

Into The Mountain (Solo) programme image and research notes. The performance explored the relationship between mountaineering experiences and dance improvisational strategies.

“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 […]

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 […]

Perfecting the emergency abseil from a ‘Snow Bollard’.

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 […]

A winter weekend of drifting into research and development with artists Siriol Joyner and Laura Bradshaw in Newtonmore in 2015.

Reading The Living Mountain during a workshop back in 2013 at abandoned Blackwater Lodge, Cabrach. NE Scotland.