Where: Bannockburn/Whins of Milton (various locations, see map on our Facebook group)

When: Saturday 1st May, between 10 am and 6 pm, and Sunday 2nd May, between 10 am and 4 pm

What: an explorative dance performance on the footsteps of Robert The Bruce, exploring the interconnection of the Battle of Bannockburn and the very landscape where it took place.

Run by: Parsifal James Hurst

Parsifal James Hurst, known as Pj, is a freelance professional Dance Artist; he has performed and toured nationally and internationally with productions by choreographers Luca Silversteri (Protein Dance), Gary Clarke (Gary Clarke companies award winning COAL and Matthew Bournes new Adventures (Swan Lake). His Portfolio Career exstends as well as performing in shows and dancing in music videos with an appearance in Mamma Mia! Here we go again. Pj has taught and facilitated education projects with a great range of people. His love and experience of teaching stretches across various platforms including teaching to school pupils, university students , PRU kids and adults with disabilities and dementia. Pj loves to enable people to move, grow and use dance as the medium to enhance people’s lives.

The project as described by PJ: ‘I will create and film movement on the different locations where the battle of Bannockburn took place in 1314. The movement will be drawn from research of people’s accounts of the event and personally creating with what I see in those locations now in 2021. With all these short motifs, I would like to create movements around the statue of Robert the Bruce in the grounds of the Battle of Bannockburn Visitors Centre and capture the interactions with passers by. There may be people out on their walks that will see it and, if not, the dance movements will be filmed and made available online.’