The Pennine Way: the legs that made us (a return journey)

The Walking Library for Women Walking

“…The book documents their 2006 performance, an unfolding along the 270 miles of the longdistance Pennine Way trail, described by them as 'a choreographic pathway, a shared journey and investigation of walking as dance and dancer as traveller'. 10 DAY 16: Landgon Beck to Dufton 12 miles A gap. I am taken by Brian and Pam in their car as last night I cut my foot on a nail in the floor.…”

“…Body Conditions: Twatery inside and out. 11 That our walk in the footsteps of the suffragettes began with a story about walking interrupted, about returning so as to finish what had been started, about resilience in the face of the unexpected, about acts of kindness, about routes and the necessity to reroute and improvise, was dense with metaphorical resonances. This was just the first of such reverberations ignited across histories, geographies, lives, journeys, dreams and emotions.…”