Dreaming Our Woods - Rehearsals

Very busy week with final rehearsals for Dreaming Our Woods

Neil Paris in the centre

Barb Jungr

Gareth Fuller

George Reilly and Barb Junger

Neil Paris striding in Kurt's lightsacpe

Dancers

Continuum Research - Sometimes Found in the Woods

These unusual items discovered whils scoping in Thoroughsale Woods with Jo Dacombe during our research period for Continuum also became part of one of the songs written for Dreaming Our Woods. Barg Jungr asked each of the members of Ring of Fire to write a verse (or verses) for a song about The Oak. This came after a walk taken with Barb and the choir where we stopped by a magnificent, ancient oak tree in the woods. People shared ideas about the life of the tree, what it meant to them and all the many events that may have taken place under its generous canopy of leaves and branches. I wrote three verses - see if you can spot them here.

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Dreaming Our Woods in Rehearsal

First sharing of work made by the three lead artists Barb Jungr, Kurt Laurenz Theinart and Neil Paristrying the songs and dance sections with work created by Kurt's Visual Piano. I love singing but I am getting larger by the minute and the dance element makes me aware what a poor thing my body is. However in the safe cocoon of the lights, bathes by the sounds we are creating I am, for a time, able to forget my self-consciousness.

Contiuum - Collecting Beech Masts and Finding Inspiration at Packwood House

 Continuum to do list - collect beech masts

Jo Dacombe and I decided that beech masts would play an integral part in our Continuum walk and collecting them was on my To Do list. This was enjoyable in many ways especially as in another part of the Our Woods project Ring of Fire song writing group were working with Barb Jungr on the songs for DRTT Dreaming Our Woods performance in May 2018. You ca read the words to our song Mother of the Woods inspired by the lore and legends surrounding the Beech here

 at Packwood House and Bedford Cemetery

 Mother of the Woods

 Beautiful Beech Trees

Inside

Outside

Hillary Jack's Follies