Name: Choreographic Practice Lab #00
Start: 2025-01-18T11:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-01-19T17:00:00+11:00
Location: Dancehouse, Melbourne Australia

Choreographic Practice Lab
With Amaara Raheem
#00 Cutting Up The Future To Find The Past
What/How:
Cambridge Dictionary chose “manifest” as the word of the year for 2024.
manifest | ˈmanɪfɛst |
adjective
clear or obvious to the eye or mind
This lab is an invitation to deep dive into your creative practice. We’ll be working to:
Ask and answer research questions that feel true and possible;
Articulate a position as a creative practitioner OR
Heal your voice
Meet your ghosts (via notebooks, photos, videos, Insta feeds) in order to …
… Make / Manifest Future Spaces AND
Track, trail, trace a dancing lineage
This lab operates through a choreographic lens which means we will dance, write, make, talk, share, compose, compost, collaborate, repeat. It’s open to anyone who has a sense of their own artistic practice and would like some support to clarify their creative position. You will receive multiple choreographic tools and other resources to dance both forwards and backwards in time.
Bring:
New and (up to three) old journals; smartphone, tablet (ipad), water bottle, comfortable clothes to move in, sunhat and running shoes for going outside; pens and any other drawing things, a snack, a book / essay (printed or digital) that feels important to your artistic practice that you’ve been meaning to read but haven’t got around to it yet.
Note:
* You don’t have to be a professional dancer to take this workshop but it’s best suited to people who have a sense of artistic practice or a body of work to reflect on. It’s definitely open to (and welcomes) emerging and established practitioners.
Dates / Times / Cost:
18-19 January 2025, 11am-5pm
Dancehouse (Sky Lab)
$150 Full
$125 DH Member / Concession
$100 Mob
Bookings:
Email [email protected]
Image: "As the cat be my witness, I’m at home on a Saturday night, existentially cutting my hair.” (Patti Smith)
*Numbers are limited.