A strand of work that’s parallel to documenting artists and makers is photographing actors, dancers and artists’ performance-based work in the Bristol area – some examples follow…

For Theatre Orchard Project – ‘I Peaseblossom, I Caliban’ on tour in North Somerset, 2011 and 2012.

There are lots more photos from this lovely tour over on The Theatre Orchard’s flickr site, here, here and here,

the For Theatre Orchard Project – Cerberus, 3 headed dog from Persephone, Bournville Community Theatre project

More photos from Persephone can be found here

For Theatre Orchard Project, ‘The Hill’ as part of Festival of Eight, at Cadbury Camp, Yatton.

More photos from ‘The Hill’ can be found here.

For Theatre Orchard Project, ‘The Visit’ as part of the Festival of Eight in Weston-super-Mare.

More photos from ‘The Visit’ can be found here.

The Theatre Orchard‘s 2008 Festival of Eight project also included other performances in North Somerset, see the leaflet for more information and click on the names to visit the photographs on their flickr pages: ‘Nowhere‘ – Nailsea and Backwell; ‘The Whispering Post‘ – Portishead; ‘Bournville Becomes Elektra’ – Bournville; Weston-super-Mare ‘Meet on the Green‘ – Pill; ‘Changing Faces‘ – Clevedon; ‘Whispers in the Wind‘ – Puxton. These were followed in 2009 by ‘Still Voices‘ at Brockley and ‘Chime Child‘ in Puxton. And from the pre-digital photography era some other intriguing performances I’ve documented…

Winnie Love, performance at Cabot Tower, Bristol as part of Changing Places ‘Stepping Out’ project

See ‘Stepping Out’ poster for more images

Artists performance piece Vera Cutis

For Changing Places – ‘Video Rideo’

From ‘Labyrinth’ conceived by Martin Rieser, a performance filmed for inclusion in a multi-media installation with Ship of Fools

Sleepers from Martin Rieser’s Labyrinth