This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

• hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

• dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

• materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

• historical connections including:

  • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

  • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

  • deconstructing sounds and language

  • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge