The Morrich is a live contemporary performance that reflects on the experience of living in a remote and rural Highland community in close proximity to an MOD site. Through dance and live experimental sound, the work offers space for audiences to bring their own thoughts, memories and feelings to meet the work.  The 50-minute performance is a duet between dancer and sound artist; movement and sound play between what is visible on the surface and what lies beneath.  The work also touches on universal themes prevalent in the world today: war, climate change, the impact of human presence, and absence, in the ‘natural’ environment.

The Morrich was premiered at Mull Theatre in November 2025 with a supporting visual arts exhibition at the An Tobar gallery in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull.  I aim to tour the work to mid-scale venues in Scotland in 2027/28.

Developed in collaboration with artists Nicolette Macleod, Penny Chivas, Saffy Setohy and Laura Bradshaw, The Morrich was initiated through a choreographic research project inspired by Morrich More – an area of land near my home in the far north of Scotland.  The Morrich Project was an investigation into artistic responses to this complex landscape made through movement, experimental sound, photography and film.

Funded by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

With support from An Tobar & Mull Theatre, Dance Base, The Work Room, Macrobert Arts Centre, Clifftop Arts, Cromarty Arts Trust and Glenkens Community & Arts Trust.