The Gathering / Yr Helfa
Date uploaded: June 25, 2014
The Gathering / Yr Helfa is a new production by National Theatre Wales with Migrations and Louise Ann Wilson Co. This site-specific walking-performance will take place on the 12th to the 14th September 2014, at Hafod y Llan, Snowdonia and reveals the day-to-day and seasonal workings of a sheep farm located on the foot-hills of Snowdon. The performance will take participants on a circular journey that traces a six-kilometre route through the landscape and into the farm. As they walk they will experience artistic interventions that combine farming activities, visual installations, performance, poetry, music and sound.
Louise has been invited to create a performance work for National Theatre Wales which she has evolved over the last three years through observing life at the farm and responding to the life cycles of the ewes, the flock, the farm and the landscape. Gillian Clarke, the National Poet for Wales, is writing a twelve-month sequence of poems for the performance, Nigel Stewart is working on the choreography and John Hardy, and his team, are composing the music and sound.
The Gathering is supported by the team at Hafod y Llan and the National Trust and will be performed by a company that includes the shepherds, their dogs, and two hundred sheep as well as professional performers, an award-winning brass band and children from the local primary school, amongst others.
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