Dancing and moving together allows us to feel each other in a way that language and words cannot. The participants who come to the Ambient Jam are adults who live in a languaged world.

So the Ambient Jam is a place where we prioritise another kind of language…

Delighting in each other is care made visible…

It disrupts those ableist modes of communication and lights up other ways of being in the world.

It allows the possibility of intimacy and of slowing, and of dignity, in recognising the other modes of being and how we can attempt to learn from each other.

Dancing companionships in Ambient Jam Cymru, Gwynedd.

In Partnership with Galeri Caernarfon and Antur Waunfawr.

In collaboration with adults and creatives with PMLD and their carers, dance artists Cai Tomos, Julie Meehan, Wendy Ostler, musicians George Amor, Naomi Saunders, Alex Morrison.

Thoughts on companionship, connection, disconnection, presence, sensory improvisation, invisible and visible moments, and much more by Cai Tomos.

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