A visual storytelling performance exploring the local legends, superstitions and folklore relating to Spain’s midsummer festival, the ‘Noche de San Juan‘ (the Night of Saint John).

The Myths of Sant Joan is a piece developed and performed with the multi-disciplinary artist Liz Kueneke in 2022. Using cut-outs, paper theatre elements and arcane animation techniques, the performance brings to life the many myths and legends associated with the Night of Saint John, Spain’s equivalent of the midsummer solstice. The piece explores the pagan ideas at the heart of this huge annual festival – including the significance of fire, and the lesser known but crucially important theme of water, and travels throughout Spain and into the heart of Eivissa and the Balearic Islands to reveal the supersticious practices which take place even today, to keep the spirit of the Noche de San Juan burning brightly throughout the ages.

Performed within the multi-disciplinary arts event Holotropia at Las Dalias, (St John’s night, 2022) and at Bistro Mundo, in the village of Sant Joan, on St John’s night, 2023.