Landings is an evening’s journey that connects us to the land, the season, our bodies, dance, listening and shared time in the wild. Join us at Poet’s Acre, surrounded by 1000 acres of organic farmland and ancient woodland, nestled next to Swanton Novers Nature Reserve, North Norfolk. 

We take you on an embodied journey of connection with the land, your self and others. We’ll gather for a welcome, take a silent nature walk together, witness Hayley's live dance performance in the woods, share tea and nibbles made from locally grown and foraged produce, and a meet each other in a listening circle round the campfire.

Landings provides time to slow down, connect to body and earth, digest our lived experiences and allow our emotional lives to flow. It is a re-discovery of the holding and metabolisation that dance, nature and the seasons can provide. 

It’s a time to re-belong to nature and our own nature, reorient and find ground and sky, which is always the beginning of what is next. 

The dance you will experience is Lakes of Anima, a dance made for the liminal space of the autumn twilight. It’s a feeling into the gestures of the truly agent feminine and dancer, a surrendering into the grief and suppression of this in our lives, and a waking of a state that is integrated with wildness and the deep ecology of not being separate. It was made to bring relief to our struggles and survivings and to move the feminine in us all. To move us in ways that are not separate from nature outside and our true natures within, to compost public space into it’s wild, feminine potentiality. 

The listening circle is a powerful and simple format that allows us to come together, hear each other’s truth and really be heard. Sharing whatever wants to be spoken from the heart, as much or as little as is needed. The emphasis is on active listening to hear deeply what others have to say. It allows us to remember the profound beauty of our humanity and the common ground we share.

Landings is lead by Hayley J S Matthews and Tim Sanderson.

Tim’s life-time experiment is to exist symbiotically and harmoniously with the land, collaborating in a continuous creative act of living, with the place, the plants and animals and the passing seasons and years. He is an artist, craftsman, grower, woodsman, father of two girls, and founder of Poet’s Acre.

Hayley is a contemporary dancer, Rolfer, musician, teacher, speaker, one half of Murmura, feminist re-wilder and opener of the Sanctuary on the Fault Line movement, which weaves dance with the land and the deep feminine.

Landings is a series of five events of dances, walks, meals and circles with Tim and Hayley that take us through the seasons.

Autumn - Saturday 12th October 2024

Winter - Saturday 1st February 2025

Spring - Saturday 26th April 2025

Summer - Saturday 28th June 2025

Autumn - Saturday 20th September 2025

If you’d like to hear about other events in the series write to us here https://www.ensembledance.org/contact

or sign up to the Poet's Acre mailing list here.

The event takes place outdoors, so please dress for all weathers and your comfort. We may have to reschedule the event in the case of very strong winds or sustained torrential rain!

Snacks or meals and hot drinks provided will all be made from chemical free ingredients grown as locally as possible or foraged from the land. Everything on offer will be suitable for vegans and vegetarians, please advise us if you have dietry requirements or allergies in advance.
 

Hayley J S Matthews

Dancer / Rolfer / Musician

Lead at Sanctuary on the Fault Line https://www.ensembledance.org/sanctuariesonthefaultlines

Rolfing info + inquiries
www.rolfingwithhayley.org

Dance work
www.ensembledance.org

Flute, Dance + Vocals with Murmura
https://www.ensembledance.org/murmura