DIG presents - Oceanallover in association with Feral: Sea Hames

Friday 12 May, 6pm, Kingston Playing Fields, Neilston*
Performance Time 1 hour approx

Free but ticketed>

Recommended train times from Glasgow Central Station  :
17:03  (arrives 17:32) | 17:18  (arrives 17.44)
Limited car parking available at Kingston Playing Fields or on street.

*PLEASE NOTE this event was originally advertised as taking place at Neilston Wind Farm, but the location had to be changed due to unforseen circumstances.

Sea Hames is the latest performance project from leading physical theatre and street performance company Oceanallover. Inspired by Orkney’s ‘Festival of the Horse and Boys Ploughing Match’ this multi-disciplinary performance fuses sonic composition, compelling performance and intricate costume design to explore the mythology and iconography of the horse, the plough and the land.

Inspired by Orkney’s ‘Festival of the Horse and Boys Ploughing Match’ this multi-disciplinary project is driven by sonic composition, visceral physical theatre and bold costume design to explore the mythology and iconography of the horse, the plough and the land.

‘Sea Hames’ is inspired directly by the sea and its relationship to the land, by this line or boundary between two worlds. The Ploughing Match festival on Orkney is a tradition more than 200 years old and is now restricted to South Ronaldsay where children dress as Clydesdale horses alongside the patterns of straight lines made by ploughs in the sands along the shore.  

In 1984 two Clydesdale horses jumped the gate to their field and charged down to the beach at Billia Croo on Orkney. They stood up on their hind hooves and danced together in the low midsummer midnight sun. This project begins with those two horses and their owner, Raimi Manson. It is about all horses; about the sea; about harnesses, ploughing, leather and dance. It is about freedom and creativity; the persistence of memory; tradition and innovation; attention to detail; and wild, broad brush-strokes

The rituals of horse, wind and sea inspire the visual poetry of ‘Sea Hames’, and its elemental choreography responds to sources of natural power – such as wind and water turbine sites – as a stimulus to frame this performance.

Produced in association with Feral. 
Supported by Creative Scotland, Orkney Museum, Neilston Development Trust, East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure, Water Works Barrhead, and Crawick Artland Trust.