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Capel: The Lights are On : Performance by Adrian Jones with Cyrff Ystwyth, in which Ames is principal research investigator and director, and part of the AHRC project 'Challenging Concepts of 'Liquid' Place through Performative Practices'. Jones shaped the output in response to the research questions about how he and other members of the company Cyrff Ystwyth perceive issues of belonging, dislocation, and place.

A Performance by Adrian Jones with Cyrff Ystwyth, in which Ames is principal research investigator and director. A practice based output contributing to the AHRC project 'Challenging Concepts of 'Liquid' Place through Performative Practices' led by Dr. Sally Mackey of the Central School of Speech and Drama, with Ames and Professor Pearson of Aberystwyth University as Co-Investigators. Jones shaped the output in response to the research questions about how he and other members of the company Cyrff Ystwyth perceive issues of belonging, dislocation, and place. The central question addressed through this practice was: What can practical intervention tell us about how abstract concepts such as place, community, dislocation and

belonging, as theorised by contemporary academics, map onto the 'real life' experiences of vulnerable social groups? Jones crafted his response through consideration of the disused chapel in his home village of Bronant. The piece became an articulation of practices, memory and constancy within a rural community performed in and around the chapel and graveyard. Jones worked closely with Ames, acting as Principal Investigator and director. The work evoked notions of history and tradition through Jones's developing choreographic skills. In so doing notions of who intervenes and how, and the distribution of power through different forms of knowledge were foregounded and critiqued. A person with a learning disability established a leading role and enabled the researchers’ enquiry into concepts of place, vulnerability and embodiment. The physicalities of the performers opened the site anew to those familiar with the place and newcomers to it. The occupation of a culturally important site, now consigned to historical interpretation, opened up new associations of the site and its historical practices, with regard to traditional and non-traditional concepts of time and materiality, which indicate the possibility of memory, and its manifestation, forming a rupture in linear chronology.