Fieldwork
music and dance collaboration
An exploration of
what arises out of the empty
field of awareness within which
we are all present -
composing collectively
in real time
Saturday April 11, 2026
@ 7:30pm
Ashburton Arts Centre
Tickets: £15 / £10 / £7
information and booking:
Dance:
Helen MacPhee
Emma Roberts
Klara Łucznik
Yolande Snaith
Ambă Lucy Chenery
Music:
Ric White
Steve Day
Roger Hall
Eliza Jacobs
Ali Waterman
Glyn Jackson
Curated by Yolande Snaith
field of sound field of movement field of possibilities field of silence field of listening field of images field of the senses field of not knowing field of chaos field of dreams field of transience field of emergence field of the unseen field of static field of uncertainty field of lucidity field of turbulence field of echoes field of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
This diverse ensemble of highly experienced dancers and musicians have come together through several years of open weekly practice at Ashburton Arts Centre, collaboratively excavating the field of possibilities for interdisciplinary improvisation and performance.
Initiated and curated by dance-maker Yolande Snaith, Fieldwork is a more focussed project, aiming to structure an intentional journey through different atmospheric, dynamic, emotional and qualitative ‘fields’ of sound and movement. The structure serves as a kind of map for the performers to navigate, feeling their way through and making moment to moment relational choices within their respective dance vocabularies and musical instrumentations. Each individual contributes to the creation of the collective whole. Nothing is fixed. The door into new exploration and discovery is always open.
Instrumentation: Ric White - Saxophone and synth, Steve Day - percussion, Roger Hall - bass and percussion, Eliza Jacobs - cello, Ali Waterman - multiple instruments, Glyn Jackson - piano and accordion, Ambă Lucy Chenery - voice.
Testimonials:
“Yolande is a visionary, and 100% committed to complex processes that bring about highly original performance works. As a collaborator, she values individuals from many different backgrounds in order to create worlds “out of the ether” and into our hearts” . . . . .“Working with Yolande as a performer is like boarding a very stable train with a very trustworthy conductor. The journey will be exciting, and you will find yourself arriving at many different destinations, always awarded with depth of knowledge and performance ability along the way.”
Marcos Duran, UC San Diego Dance MFA Alumni, Dance Theatre producer and educat
“Yolande is a virtuoso at finding and creating connections between ideas, images, words, and movement. It has been deeply satisfying to work in creative processes that are so rich and immersive”
Gina Bolles Soreneson, Choreographer / Educator
"Yolande's teaching is transformative. Fifteen years later, I still find myself regularly revisiting artistic processes that she introduced. Her ability to perceive the world around her as flourishing with creative potential is magical. But her ability to structure that raw potential into rich artistic processes that challenge, rewire, and delight her students is even more so".
Kyle Sorenesen, UC San Diego Dance MFA Alumni, Choreographer / Educator / Dance Film-maker
"Yolande is a magical dance maker. Her creative processes offer rich portals for movement explorations. I have known Yolande for 20 years and cherish my kinesthetic memories in the many pieces and worlds she created for me as a dancer in San Diego. As a professor and colleague at UCSD she guided her students with kindness and innovative ways of thinking about space, time, elemental connections, and the expansive possibilities of human movement. Yolande is a well loved teacher and guide who will spark your creativity and imagination".
Alison D. Smith - dancer and embodiment guide.
"I have learned so much from Yolande over a decade of dance experiences together. Being a part of her process firsthand in both rehearsals and classes has given me infinite insights into my own dancing and making which I share in my own classes and processes". Sadie Weinberg - dancer, choreographer, educator, artistic director of LITVAKdance
“I’m being completely honest when I say that having Yolande Snaith as a teacher and mentor during my grad school years, was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. She dramatically shifted and liberated my conception of choreography and dance making. It is because of her gentle, imaginative, resourceful and rigorous guidance that I came face to face with what it means to be a human being and a movement artist in the highest sense. I always like to say that my work with Yolande reconciled me with metaphor and introduced me to the depths of the improvisational state. That open space of immense presence and vast possibility. Her teachings continue to support and inform my daily and creative life today. “
Paulina Colmenares, Choreographer, Dance Professor.
"Yolande offered her artistry, theatricality, love of movement, artistic conviction and curiosity through her character and sensibility. She gave me permission by way of living example to hone and live inside my own artistic processes and curiosity, to continuously seek out and listen to my aesthetic voice. When I reflect on my experiences being involved as a performer in some of Yolande's Choreographies; I could describe propositions of thematic specificity asking me to embody a state, a character, a way of being, dancing inside continuous moving patterns; becoming layered; a dancing escher meets a gothic mythic ritual space. I often found myself in something peculiar and tender, costumed in layers and textures in fabrics that holistically supported a whimsy and chaos and lightness of being that my experience of being in her works imbued. Yolande always encouraged my artistic curiosity and multidisciplinary interests and I am so very grateful and honored for my time working, studying and considering artistic practices with her at UCSD and through time continued within the larger San Diego dance community, as a collaborator and friend".
Emily Aust, Dance maker, and Reiki practitioner.
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