Weekend Workshop
Improvised Performance
Weekend Workshop
Saturday 2nd, Sunday 3rd and Monday 4th May
11am- 6pm plus 11am- 2pm on Monday
Costs: £45 /£22.50 concession
This weekend workshop is a slightly more advanced course following on from the themes explored in April. However, if you missed the April workshop, you are still welcome to attend.
The Improvised Performance workshop will be led by Co-Artistic Director of Echo Echo Steve Batts along with dancer/choreographer Ayesha Mailey, who each bring their own individual style and influences to the teaching.
Both days will be divided into two parts. In the morning participants will work on developing physical skills and sensitivity through structured explorations of movement with Steve Batts.
During these sessions Steve will help those in the group to explore individually the possibilities and potentials of moving through the vertical and horizontal plane and to explore the possibilities and limits, which come with partnering and moving in close proximity.
Throughout Steve's teaching the focus will be on the deep pleasures in discovery and creativity.
In the afternoon sessions, Ayesha Mailey will guide participants on how to place individual skill and creativity inside improvisation structures and scores framed with rules and themes.
Ayesha's teaching will use some scores designed by artists working in this field but she will also encourage the group to create their own. Everyone will have the opportunity to explore a range of structures, some with minimal instruction and others that contain lots of cues, triggers, themes, sound and props.
Ayesha says: "By allowing your imagination to guide you, we'll have the chance to dance and create together."
We encourage everyone to come to the Monday class as it is a bank holiday and we hope it will be a lovely ending to this intensive workshop.
For more information or to book a place on this course, contact the Echo Echo office on 028 7134 2266 or email info@echoechodance.com
