In the Fields Project presents Fields (Extract) at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025

Fields (Extract)

Playful and poetic, Fields (Extract) is a compelling performance that draws the audience into a textured landscape of stone, where patterns of dwelling are made and unmade, shaped by land, time and human hands.

The episodic narrative of the performance offers snapshots of lives lived out amidst stony ground where duration expands to take in the enduring labour of ages past, present and perhaps yet to come

Layered with detail and played out to an intermittent sound score, images emerge of agricultural labouring, the toil of turning stony ground, and at the end of the day, the scraping of boots and a laying down to rest on pillows of stone.

Fields (Extract) was made with support from Dance Base, City Moves and Tramway

Performers: Merav Israel, Claire Pençak

Recorded Sound score: Nik Paget-Tomlinson with Jem Le Lievre

"Mesmerising"

"Riveting"

"Deceptively minimalist: two dancers with stones in a space, but oh so many layers and meanings! Ever changing in every second."

"The dance floor is strewn with stones – jutting, hard, grey, white, beige, brown. The dancers bundle stones up in their arms and push or place them round the space. Once a configuration is reached. A nod to each other proclaims their readiness to engage with this dangerous territory."

Audience feedback

Merav Israel

Merav Israel is a dance artist, Feldenkrais Method practitioner and therapist, based in Edinburgh. She is working within the field of somatic movement and improvisational scores. Her work tends to be collaborative, poetic, relational, investigative, with an interest in the natural world and spirituality.

Website: www.meravisrael.com

Makers/Performers

Claire Pençak

Claire Pençak is a dance artist with a cross disciplinary and collaborative practice living and working in the Scottish Borders. Her interest is in how dancing can offer hope-orientated and empathetic practices that nourish ecological relationship and different ways to connect – to ourselves, to others and to the more-than-human world.