About this Event
This eclectic mix of inspiring courses with artists from the leading edge of community and participatory dance is a chance for you to learn, experiment and reflect with like-minded colleagues.
There are ten courses to choose from, taking place virtually and in person. All of the courses are:
- Suitable for all career stages - often encouraging an effective blend of them for mutual learning and co-mentorship - for students, teachers and leaders of community and participatory dance and other performing arts specialists with an interest in the field
- Focussed time to fill up on inspiration for the year to come by deepening your current practice or exploring new avenues
- Cost-conscious with fee reductions for Members of People Dancing
- A chance to network with peers as passionate as you from near and far, the welcoming People Dancing team and a general emphasis on respite, refreshment, and the joy of together!
Join Helen Poynor for a day long course that explores her Walk of Life approach to working indoors and outdoors.
This is an innovative approach to non-stylised movement and creative expression. It integrates moving in the studio with moving in response to natural environments.
Simple movement scores arising from the structure of the body are offered as springboards into motion. These serve to heighten awareness and to awaken vitality. This approach fosters an embodied sense of self and of presence in daily life and in performance and offers the opportunity to re-connect with the joy, strength, ease and simplicity that our moving being offers us. Grounding ourselves through an embodied encounter with the land, which refreshes both body and spirit, we rediscover our 'place in the family of things' (Mary Oliver). As we move in response to earth, rock and tree, different experiences and movement qualities are evoked. Working in a receptive and respectful relationship to the environment deepens our awareness of the natural world and our sense of stewardship and of belonging.
This approach to the body in motion has been applied in the arts and performance, education, self-development, movement therapy and daily life. It has proved valuable to people from all walks of life.
The morning will be moving inside in the Buckfastleigh Town Hall. The afternoon will be outside, moving in the environment. We will car share and walk to reach the outdoor site. This is a wild site, which means it is not fully accessible, with rocky terrain and uneven underfoot. If you wish to discuss accessibility of the site in more detail, please contact [email protected].
N.B. You will need to bring appropriate outdoor gear for this course & will be notified of exact requirements nearer to the time.
This one-day course is ideal for artists at any stage of their career.
Above image credit: Anna Leatherdale.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Buckfastleigh Town Hall, 34 Bossell Road, Buckfastleigh, United Kingdom
GBP 60.00 to GBP 87.00
