SHOAL
Individual instincts - Collective movement
SHOAL
"SHOAL" is an exciting new collaboration between artist-performers August Myfanwy and k rowan and sound practitioner Rebecca Lawrence (Nada Pulse). Working with the idea of individual and collective movement the performers will enter an intuitive and responsive relationship with a live soundscape to create an immersive sea-puppet sound experience.
We make our own puppets and costumes where we can and use a variety of puppet types including traditional puppet forms and our own designs to capture the movement, light and colour of fish in motion and of other sea creatures in the oceans depths. Where possible we will use found, foraged or recycled materials.
August Myfanwy (they/she)
is an interdisciplinary circus and movement artist from Co. Durham.
With a background in aerial acrobatics and flow arts (staff, poi, roped-art), they are a practiced, and audience-engaging performer. They have come to puppetry through Moving Parts Arts, Mr Funbles' Sunday Portal, a film for Midnight Memphis and Ditch puppet play.
Elsewhere they have performed for Newcastle Circus Arts, Aria Art and Movement, PsychoPath, Shape Festival, Wild Rmpus.
They are currently developing their performance art practice through the Newbridge Project's Collective Studio.
k rowan (they/them)
is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer and performer with a career spanning 25 years.
K is a spoken word artist, community & outdoor Arts practitioner experienced in circus skills, Tai Chi Qigong, walking and embodied arts seeking the intangible aspects of life in movement, shadow, thought or feeling.
In recent years k has worked with The Periplum, Kat lynas and Sidequest, Wintertide Festival, Crossing the Tees book festival and are completing a multi-vocal performance commission for Redcar Kite Festival.
Their introduction to puppetry was as a child through the puppet barge and local theatre groups and in more recent years through workshops with russell Dean and Alison McGowan.
Rebecca Lawrence (she/her)
is a heart centred intuitive sound practitioner and yoga teacher with over thirty years experience in vibrational medicine.
Rebecca crafts immersive live soundscapes for Journeying to other worlds silence and space.
Having trained with Sheila Whittaker, Bear Love and Alexandra Rigazzi-Tarling, Rebecca uses an eclectic range of instruments that include voice, gongs, bowls, and strings cultivate healing, transformation and connection in the self and others.
SHOAL is
a created meditative environment with projected light, puppets, performers and live soundsculpting. Cast shadows will inform the textures and depths of the environment enhanced with kinetic art to further establish the illusion of being on the sea bed. There is scope for a walkabout adaption using mask theatre, puppets and a smaller sound set up. SHOAL is being developed during 2026 for performances in 2027
