Five women slowly process across Portsmouth’s municipal park, covered in hessian-coloured layered fabrics. On their heads they wear what look like strange overgrown dreadlocks, making them a group of connected beings. They move towards a deflated hessian starfish shape on the floor. Circling it, they enact a ritual performance, animating the space and quietly paying homage to the five-armed symmetry of echinoderms.
This living sculpture is a performance called Between Land and Tide. It was conceived by Olana Light, a Portsmouth-based artist, in collaboration with local dancers. They will perform for the rest of this summer and into the autumn in Portsmouth.
