The Dirty Ensemble: Miranda Whall + Neil Luck + Mayah Kadish + Tim Beckham + Angela Wai- Nok Hui + Ashley John Long + Constance Humphries

When Earth Speaks: A Dirty Ensemble premiered at Theatr yr Werin, Aberystwyth Arts Centre 8th June 2024.

Film maker: Amy Daniel

The performance drew upon a live data stream generated by a long- range, high-resolution soil sensor network installed in the Cambrian Mountains, Mid Wales on the Elenydd plateau, known as the Ffridd (the upland fringe), approximately 600m above sea level. More information

When Earth Speaks: A Dirty Ensemble was supported by Live Art Development Agency, LADA as part of Live Art in Rural UK June 2023 – June 2024.

Blue Wave 2023 (clip), site-specific dance project. Commissioned by Co/Lab Sunderland for SeaScapes. Funded by Arts Council England and National Trust, the project includes creatives from within each participating community and members of Friends of the Drop-inSangini and the North East Migration Project. The project culminated in a live performance at the Tall Ships Festival in Hartlepool, UK,  2023. Film by Gavin Selby.

Blue Wave (clip), a site-specific dance project designed to connect participants to the bioregion. The project was commissioned by Co/Lab Sunderland, a creative engagement project for SeaScapes marine heritage project. Blue Wave was co-created with members of FODI Sunderland (Friends of the Drop-In for Asylum Seekers and Refugees) and members from Sangini in South Shields. The project culminated in a live performance at Roker Beach near Sunderland, UK,  2021. Film by Alan Fentiman.

a[r]mour (clip), site-specific, live-streamed, durational performance/ installation, 2020

Concept, performance, costume and tech: Constance Humphries. Soundscape: Russell Scobie & Constance Humphries. Performed at GAS Contemporary in The Beacon Centre, North Shields, UK, 2020.

her-ha-ha-bits (clip), live, performance, 2020

Concept, performance and costume: Constance Humphries. Music: Russell Scobie & Constance Humphries. Preformed GAS Contemporary, North Shields, UK, 2020.

after the fire (clip), live performance, 2020

Concept, performance and costumes: Constance Humphries, Juli Watson, Nicola Hunter, Sarah Riseborough, Deborah Nash and Richard James Hall
Music: Russell Scobie & Constance Humphries
Preformed GAS Contemporary, North Shields, UK, 2020.

from the shadows, site-specific improvisation with sound, 30m, 2019

Concept, performance and costume: Constance Humphries
Music: Russell Scobie & Constance Humphries
Performed: New Butoh School – Miniatures Butoh Festival, Ruvo, Italy, 2019.
Photos: Cinzia Cantatore 

Fremd ist dein kleid (Strange is Your Dress), performance/ installation

Premiere on Aug 16&17, 2019 at Schloss Bröllin.
Performers: Alberto A!, Constance HumphriesElisa Zacco, Elvira Barmeri, Ioku Ero NikaidoJonathan MartineauLela Besom, Margarita Tseng, Roland Eichner
Soundscape: Phonoschrank/ Text: Rainer Maria Rilke
Concept & Choreography: Felix Ruckert
Production: eX…it! Festival 2019 Bröllin & Compagnie Felix Ruckert Berlin e.V.
Photo: schloss bröllin e.V. / Peter van Heesen 

The Beautiful Us (clip), performance with sound, 50m, 2019

Concept, performance and costume: Constance Humphries
Music: Russell Scobie & Constance Humphries
Premiere: 13th Asheville Butoh Festival, Asheville, NC 2019.

The Weight of Detritus, (photos), performance with sound, 30m, 2015-2018

Concept, performance and costume: Constance Humphries/Music: Zach Cooper. Photos: Caren Harris. Premiere: Am I Who I Am?, Revolve Project Space, Asheville, NC, USA, 2018. A work-in-progress version was performed at the 11th Asheville Butoh Festival, Asheville, NC, USA, in 2017 and as part of an installation curated and produced by Grayson Morris for the Asheville Fringe Arts Festival, in 2016.

And Then There Was All That Time… (clip), video with sound 15m2s, 2012-2016

Concept, performance, costume, sound, video, editing: Constance Humphries
Videography assistance: Rosa Eaton. Screening History: Beyond Knowing, an exhibit by curator, David Sheldon, AAAC Exhibition Space, May 10 – June 21, 2019. Am I Who I Am?, Revolve Project Space, Asheville, NC, USA, February 10, 2018.

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REVOLVE + MAP presents the first release in their REVOLVE SOUND series with the collected works for dance by Constance Humphries. Made in conjunction with artist Karen Hardy, Am I Who I Am? brings live-coded + analogue sound, image, design, and letterpress together for a unique, handcrafted object. 

Entanglements, (clip) multi-media installation/performance

Collaboration with painter, Linda Larsen, production designer, Adam Larsen, and sound artist, Kimathi Moore. Premiered at Revolve Project Space, Asheville, NC, USA, 2017.

I Freak Faster (clip), video with sound 29m49s, 2015-2017

Concept, performance, costume, and video editing: Constance Humphries
Music: Chonyid 5 Part 2 performed by HokanoCurwenFreeth
Videography: Andre Daughterty. A live version of the piece was performed at Fall Out Pop Up, Asheville, NC, USA, 2016. Screening History: GAS Contemporary, North Shields, UK, 2020. Am I Who I Am?, Revolve Project Space, Asheville, NC, USA, February 10, 2018. Asheville Fringe Festival, Asheville, NC, USA, 2017.

ReSound, (clip) live performance, 20m, 2012-2017

Performance and video: Constance Humphries
Costume: Denise Carbonell. Music: Derek Dominy. Premiered at ReSound @ Revolve Sound Six, September 2017 and was performed as part of Asheville Fringe Arts Festival, 2018. 

Koromo-dako
Choreography, video, costumes and set: Sara Baird
Performance/Collaboration: Sara Baird, Jenni Cockrell, Julie Becton Gillum and Constance Humphries 
Music: 26 minutes by Divine Circles with Meghan West and David Lynch
Projection design: Geo Lynx/Photos: Sandee Johnson
Premiered as part of the 11th Asheville Butoh Festival, BeBe Theater, Asheville, NC, USA, 2017.

The Usefulness Of Persistent Distance, (clip) video, 10m, 2017

Concept, performance, video: Constance Humphries. Costume: Denise Carbonell/Music: Derek Dominy. An earlier version was commissioned for and screened at Synthesis, MoogFest Public Art Celebration, Asheville, NC, USA, 2012.

Another Moment of Silence: We Are Them, 8m42s, 2013-2017

Concept, performance, costume, video: Constance Humphries. Poem: James Humphries. Screening History: Am I Who I Am?, Revolve Project Space, Asheville, NC, USA, February 10, 2018. Context, Pretext, Subtext: Words in Art, Art in WordsWeizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, NC, USA, 2017. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center’s {Re}HAPPENING 2013 Festival, Black Mountain, NC, USA, 2013.

Another Moment of Silence: They Are Us, live performance no sound, 10m, 2013-2017

Concept, performance, costume, photos: Constance Humphries. Poem: James Humphries. Performed as part of Context, Pretext, Subtext: Words in Art, Art in WordsWeizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, NC, USA, 2017.
An earlier version of this piece was shown at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center’s {Re}HAPPENING 2013 Festival, Black Mountain, NC, USA, 2013.

Solo Party Dress (clip) live performance with music, approx. 30m, 2013-2016

Concept, performance: Constance Humphries Costume: Nava Lubelski Music: Stephen Barnard Premiered on April 9, 2016 at the 10th Asheville Butoh Festival. Performed on April 23rd, 2016 at the Center for Craft Creativity and Design and on April 29th on Walnut St. as part of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center’s Interlude festival, Asheville, North Carolina.

Hole, video with sound, 5m26s, 2014-2015

Concept, performance, costume, photos, video, sound: Constance Humphries
Screening History: Appalachia Now!, An Interdisciplinary Survey of Contemporary Art in Southern Appalachia, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, 2019.  Am I Who I Am?, Revolve Project Space, Asheville, NC, USA, February 10, 2018. Experimental Studios Group Exhibition, Abject Gallery, Newcastle, England, 2016.

Need (clip) live, site-specific performance, 10m, 2015-2016

Concept, performance, costume, video, sound, editing: Constance Humphries. Performed/screened at Experimental Studios Group Exhibition, Abject Gallery, Newcastle, England, January/February, 2016.

Ease Me Into Invisibility, video with sound, 5m, 2014-2015

Concept, performance, costume, photos, video, sound: Constance Humphries
Screening History: Am I Who I Am?, Revolve Project Space, Asheville, NC, USA, February 10, 2018. Experimental Studios Group Exhibition, Abject Gallery, Newcastle, England, 2016.

Can I Be You?, site-specific live performance, 15m, 2015 and installation documenting a collaborative exchange with Simon Farid. The installation included photographic documentation of two covert performances informed by this exchange, one performed by each of us; ’Can I Be You?’ and ’Bye ya

CIBU performance, costume: Constance Humphries. Photography: Michael O’Kane. Performed in Newcastle, England on July 16, 2015.
Documentation and photos of the collaboration were presented at Experimental Studios Group ExhibitionAbject Gallery, Newcastle, England, January/February, 2016.

I’m Gonna Tell…But You Don’t Have To Listen (clip), video, no sound, 2014

Concept, performance, video, editing: Constance Humphries
Screening History: Am I Who I Am?, Revolve Project Space, Asheville, NC, USA, February 10, 2018. Neo (-portraiture), The Island, Gallery Space, Bristol, England, 2015.

Help, live performance, 2015

Concept, performance, costume, sound: Constance Humphries. 
Performed on May 1, 2015 at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, England. Photos by Anna Miller

See Them (clip), video 10m, 2014

Concept, perfomance, costume, sound, video, editing: Constance Humphries
Videography assistance: Andy Hokano, Alexander Roberts
Screened at Breaking the Law/Burning Down the House, Home For Waifs And Strays, Birmingham, England and at Revolve Project Space, Asheville, NC, USA.

The Burden of Forgotten Horrors (clip), video excerpt of durational performance with sound 13m55s, 2014-2016

Concept, performance, costume, video, editing: Constance Humphries. Music: Chonyid 5 Part 1 performed by HokanoCurwenFreeth. A version of this piece was performed at the Star and Shadow, Newcastle, England, 2014.

Shifted, (clip) video, 9.32m, 2013

Concept, performance, costume, video and editing: Constance Humphries. Performed and recorded in Durham, England. Screened at Experimental Studios Group ExhibitionAbject Gallery, Newcastle, England, January/February 2016.

Hide Them (video stills) site-specific, live performance, 25 minutes, 2013

Concept, performance, costume, video: Constance Humphries Performed in Gateshead, England on November 15, 2013. Screened at Experimental Studios Group ExhibitionAbject Gallery, Newcastle, England, January/February 2016.

Wee, (clip) video, 10m, 2013

Concept, performance, costume, video: Constance Humphries. Music: Chonyid. Screened as part of a solo exhibition of new work at Upstairs Art Space, Tryon, NC.