LIVE STREAM
Tue 25 - Fri 28 May 2021
15:00 BST (30mins)

ACCESS: This film is quiet, meditative & highly visual with no spoken text.

Four reclining duets take place in a giant dog bed over four days. The reoccurring event is an invitation to re-join the practice daily, pass by or come and go and perhaps meditate, rest,  unknot  and empty out alongside. This work had been tenderly documented by film artist duo Webb-Ellis.  

Lucy is a Dance Artist and Molly is a Retired Greyhound. Through companionship, they have evolved a practice of reclining together. It began four years ago as way to bond, connect and commune at a bodily level. During the pandemic, the reclining has taken on deeper significance, especially in relation to the act and role of rest and why it is so difficult to achieve.

The giant dog bed is an invitation into a practice that follows the greyhound’s ability to slumber, rest, sleep for 20 hours a day and challenge the capitalist trope that rest is empty, lazy, a waste of time. In the giant dog bed, the resting is a process deceleration and unknotting as a way to dismantle and reconfigure relationships, perspectives and more-than-human subjectivities. 

Together we slip and slumber.

Lucy Suggate – Dance Artist
Molly Suggate – Greyhound
Helen McIntosh – Producer
Caitlin and Andrew Webb-Ellis – Artist Filmmakers

Commissioned by: Take Me Somewhere
Supported by: Creative Scotland, The Work Room, Dance Base

Lucy Suggate is a dance artist and choreographer based in the UK. Making working since 2003, she is recognised for her articulate and engaging solo performances as well as choreographic installations and public scores inspired by change and cooperation.  Her movement practice is an ongoing inquiry into the perceptual and physical expansion that occurs when engaged in long-term moving and thinking. https://www.lucysuggate.com/