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Simone Clark, Visual performance artist explored a cross-disciplinary approach to creativity in the quarry environment by linking interpretation of the landscape to choreography and dance. Simone worked with local schools to give them an understanding of dance informed by the quarry landscape. The project was titled ‘Dancing the Memory of Stone’ – a journey through time using the fossil narrative and interaction of light and water as an inspiration for choreographic material as a means of informing local pupils about how stone was formed. The process of learning about the landscape also included a journey contributing to ‘the spiral for the future’, the largest landform intended for Independent Quarry. Her work led to a performance and community event with pupils from Tophill Junior School at the Learningstone Centre in July 2004, bringing parents and community to share the story of Portland stone, looking through time, to the past and into the future.
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