A Sun Dance: Performance, Talks & Films

Tate St Ives is delighted to be working with Australian artist Rochelle Haley for the UK premiere of A Sun Dance

The UK premier of A Sun Dance takes place at Tate St Ives on Saturday 21 September. An ensemble of international and South West based dancers and a musician will follow the path of the sun as it passes across and through the Tate St Ives building on the equinox weekend. At its core, the work is a relation between dancer, sunlight, sound, and architecture. They will create kaleidoscopic shapes and contemplative movement and sound for audiences to encounter throughout the day.

Following this premier, on Sunday 22 September there is a day of screenings and talks.

Screenings
10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 3.30 and 4.30

A Sun Dance – Performance film made concurrently with the live performance premiere at National Gallery of Australia. 14 mins. 2024. Artist: Rochelle Haley.

Deep Time Moving – (process films). 2023. 13.32. Kyra Norman.

14.00

This event follows on from the performance A Sun Dance by Rochelle Haley. This piece was first performed at the National Gallery of Australia and now translated to Tate St Ives gallery spaces.

Working with local dancers to bring the work alive in a new context this conversation will reflect on the process of transmission, between art work, people and locations. This programming is looking ahead to the ambition for new programme in the Palais de Danse, Barbara Hepworth’s studio, opening to the public in 2026.

Speakers include Rochelle Haley, artist A Sun Dance and Melanie Stidolph, Curator, Public Programme, Tate St Ives. This is an opportunity to reflect on practice in the South West and an invitation to the audience to share more of the context of dance and performance in the region.

Please join us in the bar at 15.00 after the talks to continue these conversations and connections further.

Both days free with admission, Tate Membership and a Locals Pass. Aged 18 and under admitted for free.