Laura Cannell talks about her latest video and DIY creativity with the ancient Sutton Hoo lyre.
few candles and a hazel tree to hang lanterns from had to suffice!) The hazel sticks made playful stabbing gestures, they reflected like shining water, glinting from the trees moving leaves.
The child dancers were children of musicians I work with, one is a fiddle player, they are small but they were truly part of the creative process, considering the way they wanted to balance on each other, or hold my lyre while I played it. One of the musician children brought her own goatâs head she had made from clay, and wore it while stood alone, it felt like she was raised up and there was wonder and threat in her face.
They had a calming kind of movement as they chose to challenge themselves and others, but there was a spontaneous feeling bubbling with what they gave in each take. Their movements were tangling or conspiring, and represented the unknown, the coming light, and pointing to the future. The video for âA Ship Sunk In Earthâ is almost a tiny relic, a late arc of the past into now melting to become the future.