Category Archives: New Lanark

Today at New Lanark, Alex’s students of physical theatre brought together the ideas of their New Lanark workshops – both of this morning and of two weeks earlier – and took them out into the glorious Spring sunshine. The separate … Continue reading →

Spread the word, one step away form hysteria. Decide who you are and bunch up in a corner. Build an electrical charge: release the word. One person on their own and the rest pointing. I am a legion. One place … Continue reading →

Today was a big day at New Lanark (also a wet one) as the physical theatre students of Adam Smith College, Glasgow descended in force to begin work with Alex. It was also a chance  to begin to explore the … Continue reading →

              Here’s some more of our extraordinary record of the visit of the eagles to New Lanark last Friday along with the news that physical theatre will be breaking out all over the World … Continue reading →

Could have sworn I had a dream about New Lanark last Friday…… fell asleep after lunch and woke up in a cold sweat. Something about the future, about the wall, regressions and progressions through the Clyde Water, loss of self, … Continue reading →

More photography – by Sean Dooley – of the scenes at New Lanark yesterday during the landing of the eagles. Here we are, soon after the landing and first sighting, when a certain amount of chaos was being created due … Continue reading →

Amazing sights were glimpsed at the falls of Clyde today as a pair of eagles, emblematic of their Roman legions, swooped from the past, from the year 142 AD, and into New Lanark of today. Was this a strange vision … Continue reading →

With spring steadily gaining in momentum, we’re expecting the emergence of some very startling, ancient and mythical creatures at The Falls of Clyde, New Lanark on Friday the 9th. Evidence of the three Roman legions that built The Antonine Wall … Continue reading →

Walking through the Clyde Valley at New Lanark today I could have sworn I saw a huge eagle amongst the trees. I shouted out to Tim but of course, there was nothing there when he turned to look. There is … Continue reading →

  Reading about the men who were building the Antonine Wall in 142AD it seems that the wall took twelve years to build and was abandoned after twenty years in 162 AD.  Forty years later it was reused by Severus … Continue reading →