“A non-judgmental space for artists, dance practitioners, enthusiasts, and beginners alike to explore music —> perception —> movement.

This is a day of individual and collective movement. A time for vibration in space. Here you will explore, with dancer and writer Paula Riofrio, somatic awareness, movement and perception through Deep Listening and the use of your own voice. It will help you reconnect with your body, gain proficiency and release bodily perceptual and intellectual blockages.

The methodologies of body awareness practised by Paula work mainly on releasing involuntary tensions in the body, supporting balance to display movement and sound. Through active listening meditation you will be encouraged to sense different parts of your body and find fluidity.

This practice also inhabits a more experimental realm. We will play around with collective improvisation, modes of dance composition, and mark-making in space.

Through poetic writing with Emma McGordon we will explore ways to embody movement in ways which expand the dance medium.”

Programme:

Doors Open – 2pm

2:15pm – 3:15pm: Creative Writing: Warming Up with Emma McGordon

3:30pm – 5:30pm: Methodologies of the body with Paula Riofrio

Socialising, warm-up, humming, combining, changing, and rotating are some of the vibrational methodologies we will explore in this session. Then, Dance Composition!

4pm – 5:30pm: Movement —-> Writing with Emma McGordon

Moving dance onto the page. Move, Be Moved, Write. We will use the sound and movement in the space as creative inspiration for poetry.

6pm – 7:30pm: Movement —-> Charcoal with Paula Riofrio and Laura Doehler.

And onto the experimental realm! Sensing music, unfurling bodies, unfurling spines, unfurling canvas, moving gesture into marks.