An ensemble of international and South West based dancers and a musician will follow the path of the sun as it passes across and through the Tate St Ives building on the equinox weekend. The work is a relation between dancer, sunlight, sound, and architecture.
Screenings
10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 3.30 and 4.30
A Sun Dance – Documentation of premiere at National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra. 14 mins. 2024. Maker credits.
Deep Time Moving – Documentation of performance. Duration. 2023. Maker credits.
Talk
14.00
This event follows on from the performance on Saturday 21 September of A Sun Dance by Rochelle Haley. This piece was first performed at the National Gallery of Australia and now translated to Tate St Ives gallery spaces.
Working with local dancers to bring the work alive in a new context this conversation will reflect on the process of transmission, between art work, people and locations. This programming is looking ahead to the potential for new programme in the Palais de Danse, Barbara Hepworth’s studio, opening to the public in 2026.
Speakers include Rochelle Haley, artist A Sun Dance and Melanie Stidolph, Curator, Public Programme, Tate St Ives. This is an opportunity to reflect on practice in the South West and an invitation to the gathered to understand more of the context of dance in the region.
Please join us in the bar at 15.00 after the talks to continue these conversations and connections further.
Funding credits
The presentation of A Sun Dance at Tate St Ives is supported by University of New South Wales School of Art & Design and the British Council’s Connections Through Culture grant programme.