Past Projects

What Moves You?

What Moves You? is a community project set up in March 2021 by Dawn Hartley to plan and deliver participatory performing arts projects, performances and programmes of related mentoring, skills sharing and training for, and with, members of the community and professional artists.

In summer 2021, four Dance Artists delivered online, outdoor and indoor workshops with more than 300 people across Scotland; resulting in each dancer making a solo work to perform outdoors with 214 participants. The associated venues included the Brunton Theatre, The Byre Theatre, Lyth Arts Centre and Lyra.

Find out more about the project at dawnhartley.com

Sea Path

In the autumn of 2020, Dawn Hartley, Quee MacArthur and the Byre Theatre created Sea Path to connect to our audience through online workshops and walking routes with creative, mindful tasks to try along the way. We invited everyone to send us their creative responses towards the creation of an exhibition.

Whilst we hoped for a screening at the Byre to celebrate the work created, as we all now know, this just could not happen.

In Spring 2021, we created a film combining all the wonderful submissions from participants, which you can view below.

Sea Path routes continue to be explored by the University of St Andrews, as a teaching and research tool by the School of English and as a prompt for health and wellbeing by the Residential and Business Services team.

Download the Sea Path Routes

DOWNLOAD THE WALK: TIDE – Cannons to Harbour to East Sands

DOWNLOAD THE WALK: TIME – North Castle Street to the 3rd portal

DOWNLOAD THE WALK: FRAME – Bandstand to West Sands

DOWNLOAD THE WALK: GULL – By East Sands Leisure Centre to the bench

DOWNLOAD THE WALK: The Anywhere Route – a walk designed for you, where ever you are

DOWNLOAD THE WALK: EXPANSE – East Sands Selkie. Created especially for accompanied children on the sandy beach.

DOWNLOAD THE WALK: RAZOR CLAM

Turning 2020

Turning was a sound project which invited listeners to pause, tune into the moment, and turn our attention towards hopes and imaginings for the future, as the season turned with us.

Scotland based artists, Saffy Setohy and Niroshini Thambar, gathered the sounds of our voices and places around St. Andrews and North East Fife in November 2020 to arrange them into a new sound work designed to be listened to at a significant turning point, as the sun sets on the shortest day of the difficult year that was 2020.

Inspired by meditations, podcasts, audio dance classes and the company of the radio during lockdown, this sound work encouraged us to step away from screens and overwhelming visual information, into the twilight. Tuning our attention to small details, vast imaginings and the things that connect us, this work was intended to be a hopeful counter to transmissions of fear in our uncertain times.

While I Breathe, I Hope

While I Breathe, I Hope was an ambitious programme of events in 2018 to mark the centenary of the ending of the First World War.

Created by the Byre Theatre, an online, community archive for the people of St Andrews and Fife was created to remember the First World War and the years that followed in which the Byre Theatre was founded.

While I Breathe, I Hope takes its name from the town motto of St Andrews: Dum Spiro Spero or While I Breathe, I Hope.

As part of this project, we asked storyteller Andy Cannon to deliver workshops in schools and around the community and commissioned Martin Clark to make several films including an interview with Scottish Military Historian Hew Strachan.