Three Green Dancers

Three Green Dancers was an installation inspired by an excerpt from David H.W. Grubb’s The Green Dancers, titled mud flats. As a group we brought clay and plaster to Cramond beach with the aim to add to the landscape within the context of the poem. There was a performative element to the act; enacting the narrative of the prose within the confines of the stage — Cramond Beach, as well as an identifiable beginning and end — the bringing of materials and taking away at the end of the performance. We claimed roles of characters within the poem, “old men chase lines and lines out to sea” as a base of inspiration for movement and action, while the art was created in interaction with phrases from the poem. Documented through photos by Sophie Tate. Performers - Evie Cervine, Eloïse Dumasy, and Sophie Tate.

‘flattened plots of nothing and the past’

‘where old men chase lines and lines out to sea.’

‘sea culled: the simple smear of slime towards a line.’

‘shorewards: inky dells rimmed by broken bark strips.’

‘finger spread with vistas of slop puddles.’

‘sea shot, sea spat, sea molten mud’

‘that creeps crevices, peeks, then flattens rises’

‘and ribs wrinkle wrecked in sad sand graves.’