The performances of Skin Deep took place at Riverfront Arts Centre 5/6 June 2009.

The Wounded Selkie” is an old myth with a contemporary resonance. It speaks of the journey from anger to forgiveness, from prejudice to tolerance and of how we might learn to live alongside the “other”. Visual Art, Music and Dance combine to tell this story in another way and invites’ the audience into a world of emotion and mystery, to look more than “Skin Deep”

This production integrates traditional art forms with digital technologies to develop new possibilities of expression. Each performance has improvised sections and is therefore a unique experience every time.

International collaboration between Wales based (dancer) Paul Davies and (visual artist) Maria Hayes with Portuguese based (dancer) Sandra Moreira and (musician) Pedro Carneiro.

With special thanks to John Thorne for his technical advice and assistence.

Funded by Arts Council of Wales, Visiting Arts with additional support from Rubicon Dance, Cardiff and the Riverfront, Newport.

Some audience feedback:
“You took us on a real journey, I felt very moved”
“I wish I had come last night then I could have come again tonight” – someone who came on Saturday 6 June.

And an email from storyteller Michael Harvey:
“Just to say once more that I really enjoyed the show. The basic projection/movement thing you are doing is really sound and compelling and multi-layered and very human. I think that might be the big difference between what your doing and a lot of other stuff that mixes technology and live performance – you really go into the human aspect of it in a way that works with the intensity of the form.

…. I would like the telling of the story to be a lot more spare so that I can fill the gaps with the stuff that the other art forms are throwing up. I only realized much later that you were having an Yves Klein moment with Sandra on the floor!”