Simone Kenyon

Simone Kenyon is a performer, artist and producer born in Bradford, West Yorkshire.[1] She works extensively with walking, and in collaboration with other artists and dancers. In 2006, with the dancer Tamara Ashley, she made 'The Pennine Way: The Legs that Make Us', a durational art project in the form of a walk,[2] creating a performance lecture about the project for ROAM a weekend of walking at Loughborough University in 2008,[3] and a book published by Brief Magnetics in 2007.[4] With Andrew Brown and Katie Doubleday she instigated the 'Open City' project in 2006, exploring the organisation and control of behaviour in the public realm.[5] Kenyon worked with Deveron Arts in Huntly, Aberdeenshire on the founding of their Walking Institute and completed a commission 'Hielan' Ways' - a long distance walk in the Cairngorns in 2013-14.[6] She has also completed walking-based work Step by Step, 2013 for Dance4 in collaboration with Neil Callaghan.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "South East Dance - Striding Out Of The Body And Into The Mountain". southeastdance.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  2. ↑ Heddon, Deirdre; Turner, Cathy (2012-05-01). "Walking Women: Shifting the Tales and Scales of Mobility". Contemporary Theatre Review. 22 (2): 224–236. doi:10.1080/10486801.2012.666741. ISSN 1048-6801.
  3. ↑ "Radar - Project - Roam: A Weekend of Walking - Spring 2008 - Tamara Ashley - Loughborough Arts". www.arts.lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  4. ↑ Ashley, Tamara; Kenyon, Simone (2007). The Legs that Make Us. Brief Magnetics. ISBN 0954907310.
  5. ↑ Cocker, Emma (2011) 'Performing Stillness', in Bissell, D. and Fuller G. Stillness in a Mobile World, Routledge, p.88
  6. ↑ "Simone Kenyon: In the Footsteps of Nan Shepherd - Deveron Arts". www.deveron-arts.com. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  7. ↑ "Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon: Step by Step | Dance4". dance4.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-05.



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