Abundance: Installation
6 June — 15 August 2026, The NewBridge Project
Abundance is a multi-stranded project weaving together live performance, installation, and workshops to create spaces that invite people to slow down, rest, and reconnect with themselves and others.
The installation strand, created by artist and choreographer Lizzie Klotz and designer Bethany Wells in conversation with community neighbours in Shieldfield, invites visitors to walk, lie down, rest and be held in a space dedicated to abundance.
As visitors enter the space, they are bathed in colour, encountering duvets and written prompts transforming the gallery into an immersive host, at once sensuous, tender, joyful and weighted: sheltering, enveloping, nurturing and celebrating.
The environment is an invitation to participate, transforming the spatial playground initially created for dancers in the live performance into an immersive environment for visitors to inhabit.
Duvets are there to be used; to move, gather, lean into, dance with or rest within. Written prompts offer suggestions for moving with intention; mirroring the way a dancer might respond to a choreographic score in rehearsals and performance. The soundscape composed by Me Lost Me (Jayne Dent) for the live performance can be listened to on headphones or accessed via a QR code, to accompany your exploration of the space.
Abundance is shaped by experiences and connections with artists, collaborators and community members across multiple contexts in the North East. It has developed out of Lizzie’s collaboration with Boundless – Dance City's over 55s performance company – and builds on relations forged during her MotherOther Residency at NewBridge for artists who are parents and carers. This led to collaborations with community members from NewBridge's neighbourhood programme, including clay workshops with artist and ceramicist Megan Randall at the Memory Cafe, and a community feast and dance party with NewBridge Community Facilitator and chef Kaltouma Hassaballah, by and for women in the local area.
Continuing ideas of convening and connection, an accompanying programme of activity including Open Rehearsals, gatherings and artist-led events, create gentle moments of activation, and live-ness within the installation.
With thanks to
Alex Ayre, Alys North, Amelia Read, Amy Becke, Andrea Scrimshaw, Anne Hemy, Arts Council England, Barnaby Booth, Brainbox Studios, Carolyn George, Charlotte Cook, Chris Fonseca, Christine Partridge, Colin Lowery, Dance City, Dan Goodman, Dan Russell, Eve Walker, Frances Stacey, Grace Denton, Hana Azahed, Heather Banfield, ID.Y, J Neve Harrington, Jayne Dent, Jia-Yu Corti, Jim Newrick, Joe Munsey, Joy Parkinson, Kaltouma Hassaballah, Karolyn Hurren, Leah Goldie, Liz Highmore, Lou Duffy, Luca Rutherford, Megan Randall, Moving Art Management, Northumberland Dance Development, Newcastle Cultural Investment Fund, Rachael Eden, Rosa Postlethwaite, Rosemary Lee, Rosie Morris, Rowena Plant, Sandy Lewty, Sue Loughlin & MotherOther, Tom Newell, Victoria Horne, Virginia Kennedy, and the NewBridge team.
Abundance is commissioned by The NewBridge Project, and is supported by Newcastle Cultural Investment Fund and Arts Council England.