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Introduction	In all river cities, rivers are relevant to the history, culture and development. Local perspectives vary across continents and the globe but, as individuals, we share a fundamental interdependence with the water moving through our lives. What is a river’s relationship to the fluids coursing through our bodies? How is this circulation connected to the flows in our everyday lives? How has the city reconstituted or redesigned nature and are we therefore also spiritually/physically/intellectually altered too? What are the global interactions? rivercities will gather ideas and material from the environment and interaction with local communities. Working with public places and local people is important – embracing both somatic and psychogeographic methods. rivercities will seek a synthesis between science, poetry, kinaesthetic and embodied expression, and connect ordinary people to their environment. It will find and illuminate truths about the human place within ecology. It will make profound and far-reaching philosophical/material connections between different human settlements on earth. Public performances in several rivercities are planned for Canada, England, Sweden, and beyond.
Interests	For several years sirenscrossing has been creating experiential, site specific, time-based works for small groups of audience. The movement of these audiences through time and space is as important to the work and the experience, as is the devised movement of 'performers' or the juxtaposition of events, images, words, sound and place that might occur during the course of a piece. The use of place has often centred on exploring and revealing the psychogeographic topography of specific urban environments. I am interested in the collision between the built environment of cities and the forces of the natural world. It seems to me that the human body is itself the repository and meeting point for all the conflicts, dreams and fragments that are generated on the border between concrete and green. I am most interested in the places where the city cracks open, or is forgotten: the places where decay and dereliction open up the possibility of seeing the city in an altered light. (Carolyn Deby - sirenscrossing)

Introduction

In all river cities, rivers are relevant to the history, culture and development. Local perspectives vary across continents and the globe but, as individuals, we share a fundamental interdependence with the water moving through our lives. What is a river’s relationship to the fluids coursing through our bodies? How is this circulation connected to the flows in our everyday lives? How has the city reconstituted or redesigned nature and are we therefore also spiritually/physically/intellectually altered too? What are the global interactions? rivercities will gather ideas and material from the environment and interaction with local communities. Working with public places and local people is important – embracing both somatic and psychogeographic methods. rivercities will seek a synthesis between science, poetry, kinaesthetic and embodied expression, and connect ordinary people to their environment. It will find and illuminate truths about the human place within ecology. It will make profound and far-reaching philosophical/material connections between different human settlements on earth. Public performances in several rivercities are planned for Canada, England, Sweden, and beyond.

Interests

For several years sirenscrossing has been creating experiential, site specific, time-based works for small groups of audience. The movement of these audiences through time and space is as important to the work and the experience, as is the devised movement of 'performers' or the juxtaposition of events, images, words, sound and place that might occur during the course of a piece. The use of place has often centred on exploring and revealing the psychogeographic topography of specific urban environments. I am interested in the collision between the built environment of cities and the forces of the natural world. It seems to me that the human body is itself the repository and meeting point for all the conflicts, dreams and fragments that are generated on the border between concrete and green. I am most interested in the places where the city cracks open, or is forgotten: the places where decay and dereliction open up the possibility of seeing the city in an altered light. (Carolyn Deby - sirenscrossing)