Our activities occur within the village itself, the village hall, the river valley and in 2 Penrhiw, a small cottage where we host our residency programme for visiting artists and teachers from near, far and wide.
As an artist-led organisation, we are light on our feet, we use resources available to us and broker relationships within our community and with artists. Experienced at managing and curating small and medium scale projects, we work from within our rural locality to create cultural experiences that bring people together to dance, to experience live performance and film in ways that are enriching and sustaining. Our curiosities reside in process, in revealing the ecological and creative territory of making and collaborating with each other, with our changing landscape and the public.
We are interested in how dance and movement engagement reveals the complexity of a ‘community’.
We ask, what are the natures of communities that emerge through dancing together? & how do we provide activities for these communities and understandings to develop in a rural area? Communities that include the ‘more-than' human beings that we live amongst.
‘Maynard is a unique model – to invite the personal into the professional, to allow the unfinished, the forming, the experimental into the realm of being valued, shared and presented, doesn't happen in many other places, certainly not with the level of care and attention that is offered as part of Maynard and that this is very deeply valued by the artistic community and the audiences alike.’
Keren Kossow, creative producer
