NooN is a cross-disciplinary collective, concerned with the subconscious and the deep ecological communication of the natural world; as well as pushing boundaries of where work can be presented.

  • Clare Parker / Movement Direction & Staging

    Clare is a socially-engaged dance artist, movement director and producer with 30 years’ experience of makng professional and community dance theatre work.

    She trained at London Contemporary Dance School and CalArts; and has worked wuth companies and artist including: Frantic Assembly, Richard Alston Dance Company, Northern Ballet Theatre, Balbir Singh, Cie Willi Dorner, Wrestling School / Howard Barker.

  • Ric Byer / Music Composition & Performance

    Ric is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Montreal; and has worked as a multi-instrumentalist (bass pecussion, vocals) and session musician in Asia, North America, and Europe.

    As 05Ric, he has created and published music with Gavin Harrison (King Crimson, Porcupine Tree).

    Ric is currently touring with Wille and the Bandits (UK/Europe).

  • Emilio Mula / Film & Generative Art

    Emilio has more than 20 years’ experience as a videographer, animator, vj and visual artist. His work explores aspects of generative art and ways to use sensors as a resource for creating audio visual installations.

    Emilio aka Children of Compost works collaboratively across different disciplines to create art experiences that can help people understand and engage with complex and quick changes that our planet and us as a species are going through.

  • Willa Faulkner / Dancer

    Willa studied contemporary dance at Trinity Laban. After graduating on 2019 she did a further year training at Performact, Portugal.

    Willa is interested in exploring her body and movement through the imagination, sensations and through a dialogue with the environment.

  • Winona Guy / Dancer

    Winona Guy is a dance artist based in Devon, working across the South West and London. She work as a choreographer, performer and community dance facilitator and teacher; working across contemporary dance and performance art disciplines. She works predominantly with improvisation, release, contact improvisation, somatic practice and interdisciplinary practice.

  • Malin Kvist / Dancer

    Malin is a dance theatre artist from Sweden based in Exeter. Trained at London Studio Centre, she graduated with 1st class honours and received the Peter Brinson Award for her achievements in contemporary dance. She is engaged in movement research, dance, opera, short film and physical theatre with Scottish Opera, Platform CRAFT/Takuya Fujisawa (SWE), iraqi bodies (SWE), Temper Theatre, Bristol Film Collective and Garsington Opera.

  • Ellen Conrad / Wearable sculptures

    Ellen graduated from London College of Fashion with a BA Costume for Performance. Her work explores oversized geometric structures and how they relate to the movement of the performer and vice versa. Ellen is currently working predominantly in film, most recent on Alien Culture and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, and is developing her practice around dance and costume.

  • Mary Willows / Butoh Creative

    Mary Willows is a Butoh dance artist who finds profound inspiration in the art of improvisation. She is moved by the idea of being danced as much as dancing, where her inner and outer worlds meet the external nature of reality to weave a story greater than the sum of its parts. Her body and soul blend with the music, the observed, the heard, and the felt, crafting new tales with each performance.

  • Clare Parker / Costumes & headdresses

    Clare has been evolving a practice over the past 5 years combining movement and costume to explore and express our more-than-human relationships. Aside from her current obsession with all things fungi, Clare is also one half of Featherheads (with Sarah Lawrence) a playful and reflective visual art and movement installation which highlights some of our most endangered British birds.

Special thanks to South West Dance Hub for the brilliant incubation space for new choreographic ideas; and all the beautiful movers and makers who have been part of experiments towards Murmur 2022-24.

Thanks also to the dancers who joined our R&D at Barbican Theatre Plymouth 2024: Rosie Allen-Perdikeas, Lydia Baldchin, Jane Berry, Willa Faulkner, Julia Stalica, Maria Tarokh.

Thanks to our partners for their generous support: MakeTank, TRP Studio R&D space, Barbican Theatre Plymouth R&D space; Exeter Phoenix in kind space, Creative Residency Space 2023 at Shawbrook, Ireland; and programming support from Theatre Royal Plymouth and Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.

Thanks for being part of our mycorrhizal network