Gwymon

Summary: A vertical dance duet examining relationships between women and the sea, drawing on the travel writing of Eluned Morgan. Features an original musical score by Rob Spaull with Eve Goodman and Henry Horrell and design by Sabine Cockrill and Ceri Rimmer.
Detail: Initially developed through Arts Council of Wales funding as a research project in collaboration with Galeri Caernarfon in 2013. The research project included a work in progress performance on the balconies of Galeri, overlooking the harbor. In 2014 the work was further developed into a performance work for vertical walls that has been performed on exterior and interior walls of buildings in a range of locations: Venue Cymru, Riverfront Newport, Base Sous-marine Saint Nazaire (France), Sarn Mynach Government offices Llandudno Junction. In 2016 Gwymon was chosen to represent the best of British dance at the biennial festival/trade show, British Dance Edition, and was performed at Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Total public audience to date: 2,000
‘Cat Ryan and Despina Goula combined the art of dance with that of rock climbing to create an astonishing display of horizontal, diagonal and vertical choreography, hanging from ropes down the side of the building. The synchronous movement shown by these two performers was among the tightest I'd seen all weekend, and this is two women dangling from the end of ropes down the side of a building! Gwymon was a representation of a female connection to the sea, inspired by Eluned Morgan's diaries of her voyage to Patagonia in the 19th century. Beautiful and elegant.’ Steve Stratford Reviews