Tend

September 2026

Screen dance film by Melanie Barnes & Zoe Manders

Selected for Brighton Screen Dance Festival 2026

Below is a short preview of Tend

Tend

Tend is an encounter between the body and the land - a journey of attention and belonging. 

Through dance, sound and moving image, the film is a quiet exploration of slowness and our embodied relationship with the natural world.

A shift in light, a breath, the slightest movement… stillness.

Listening becomes a way of noticing what is already unfolding within the landscape and within the body.

Between movement and stillness, something else begins to emerge. Another way to consider our place amongst it all.

Body and land equally seen.

A captured communion between us and the more-than-human world.