Here is a small selection of the projects Samphire have taken part in. If you would like to know more about this group, see here: http://danceiow.org.uk/wp/samphire-dance-company/
March – May 2025. Bridging the Gap – Moving Conversations was a collaboration between Samphire, Isle of Wight College Performing Arts and Photography departments and music maker Noah Johnson. Intended to make connections, share ideas and bridge the gap between the ages, this delightful 6 hour project saw 16 – 24 year olds and 58 – 83 year olds working as a company exploring the theme of Communication.
November, 2024 at Quay Arts. Generate Dance, a celebration of dance from young and older dancers including Samphire, the Isle of Wight College Performing Arts Students and NTR dancers from the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth.
Summer 2023. Inspired by living on the Isle of Wight, we collaborated with film maker, Paul Windridge, and created a trilogy of films. Here is Part 3: Island Lines. Samphire dancers wrote about how they feel about living on the Isle of Wight. Using words collated from their responses; BREATHE-CHERISH-PRIDE-ESCAPE-RESCUE-RELIEF-PROTECT, each dancer responded in their own unique way.
Summer 2022. Samphire, along with its spin off group at Niton, created two dances to celebrate the 50th birthday of Ventnor Botanic Gardens. This is a montage of clips from both ‘Breath’ and ‘In the Garden’.
October 2021. Samphire dancers were delighted to be part of the New Carnival Company’s Arts and Walking festival ‘Crossing the Bar’ performing at Bembridge and St Catherine’s lighthouse, Niton. We took inspiration from The Sirens, half woman, half bird, who lured sailors with their singing causing shipwrecks on the rocks of the island.
Summer 2019. Improvising at Compton Bay. No rehearsals. Film and music by Paul Windridge.
Following a call out from the Pina Bausch dance company asking people around the world to make their own version of the Nelken-Line, we made ours. Samphire Dance Company came together with friends to dance the Nelken Line on Compton Beach on the Isle of Wight.
To see other dances by Samphire, see Michelle Hainsworth (vimeo.com)