A event held at Bristol Old Vic on Monday 17th June. The event starts at 10:00.
GATHER UP invites different Bristol-based practitioners to lead morning classes to support the continuous training and development of experienced movers and professional dance artists. Morning Class takes place weekly on a Monday morning in term time.
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Morning Class with Nina Santes:
Nina’s s class will move between guided practices and set material coming from her repertoire. Her artistic language is very much driven by the idea that the voice is dancing, and the body is singing. The class requires curiosity for voice work, talking, singing, as well as moving, but no specific skills. As a resonance to her current creative process, we will aim to explore our relationship with liquidity, in the body, in the space, in relationship, and in memory. We will draw our attention to the breath, on ways of listening deeper, on perceiving movement and sound as vibration, and on musicality. We will seek playful ways to tune to each other, to voice the body, to talk and sing and dance simultaneously, associating or dissociating different patterns. We might close our eyes to muscle our imagination and sensory tentacles. The class will involve light touch such as holding each other’s hands, with always the possibility to adapt.
About Nina:
Nina Santes is a choreographer, dancer and singer. She is co-artistic director of La Fronde with Ève Magot. La Fronde is a production structure that works with principles of cooperation and sharing of resources, created in 2011. Nina Santes’ transdisciplinary work nurtures a strong link between movement and sound, giving birth to hybrid objects that play on genres and forms. Concert, dance piece, immersive cabaret, experimental musical... Nina Santes likes to offer experiences that engage all the bodies - those of the performers and those of the spectators. She sees art as a tool for transforming relationships and perceptions, on a personal and collective scale. She has written a number of plays that have toured internationally over the last 10 years, including Self made man (2015), A Leaf (2016/2019 - co-created with Célia Gondol), Hymen Hymne (2018), République Zombie (2020). She received the French SACD New Choreographic Talent Prize in 2018. In 2023 she created the solo Peeling Back and explored the invention of a form of ‘choreographic science fiction’. She is currently creating Wet Songs (2025), which continues this research. Nina was an associate artist of the Atelier de Paris CDCN (France) from 2019 - 2021, then at the Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans, and at the Manège de Reims (France), with La Fronde, from 2021 to 2024.
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Time: Studio is open from 9.40am, class time is 10-11.30am, with time to stretch and meet 11.30-12noon.
Access: Get in touch if you have access needs that we could support you with. Email us at: [email protected]
Creative Audio Description: if you are a visually impaired dancer planning to attend a morning class, you may like to book our free Creative Audio Describer service to provide you with 1-1 support during the class. Please get in touch if you would like to request this support.
Care Pot: the Care Pot exists to offer cash support towards childcare, parking, travel, access or other extra costs that may surround coming to these classes. Take a read and please be in touch with how we could cover some of your extra costs so that you can come along and participate.
Rest: Our spaces are rest welcome. There are various benches, seats and corners in the studio or you are always welcome to leave the studio for a break.
Find out more here: www.gatherup.live
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REALISE YOU CAN’T MAKE IT?
We try our best to price our classes and workshops fairly and offer good value for money. To ensure the viability of our programme we do not offer refunds. However, you can put your ticket up for resale or transfer it to a friend using the Headfirst booking system. Your original ticket becomes void and a new, valid ticket will be emailed to the transfer recipient.
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GATHER UP is a dance development project supported using public funding by Arts Council England. The current programme is also made possible thanks to additional support from the Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement, Bristol Old Vic Ferment and Arnolfini.
Photo credit: Aude Arago
Image description: A green, black and white photo of a woman in motion, wearing a shirt with a zipper, facing diagonal with arms raised and bent, hands in contact holding metal pieces, eyes raised, against dark background.
Entry requirements: 18+
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Morning Class with Nina Santes:
Nina’s s class will move between guided practices and set material coming from her repertoire. Her artistic language is very much driven by the idea that the voice is dancing, and the body is singing. The class requires curiosity for voice work, talking, singing, as well as moving, but no specific skills. As a resonance to her current creative process, we will aim to explore our relationship with liquidity, in the body, in the space, in relationship, and in memory. We will draw our attention to the breath, on ways of listening deeper, on perceiving movement and sound as vibration, and on musicality. We will seek playful ways to tune to each other, to voice the body, to talk and sing and dance simultaneously, associating or dissociating different patterns. We might close our eyes to muscle our imagination and sensory tentacles. The class will involve light touch such as holding each other’s hands, with always the possibility to adapt.
About Nina:
Nina Santes is a choreographer, dancer and singer. She is co-artistic director of La Fronde with Ève Magot. La Fronde is a production structure that works with principles of cooperation and sharing of resources, created in 2011. Nina Santes’ transdisciplinary work nurtures a strong link between movement and sound, giving birth to hybrid objects that play on genres and forms. Concert, dance piece, immersive cabaret, experimental musical... Nina Santes likes to offer experiences that engage all the bodies - those of the performers and those of the spectators. She sees art as a tool for transforming relationships and perceptions, on a personal and collective scale. She has written a number of plays that have toured internationally over the last 10 years, including Self made man (2015), A Leaf (2016/2019 - co-created with Célia Gondol), Hymen Hymne (2018), République Zombie (2020). She received the French SACD New Choreographic Talent Prize in 2018. In 2023 she created the solo Peeling Back and explored the invention of a form of ‘choreographic science fiction’. She is currently creating Wet Songs (2025), which continues this research. Nina was an associate artist of the Atelier de Paris CDCN (France) from 2019 - 2021, then at the Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans, and at the Manège de Reims (France), with La Fronde, from 2021 to 2024.
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Time: Studio is open from 9.40am, class time is 10-11.30am, with time to stretch and meet 11.30-12noon.
Access: Get in touch if you have access needs that we could support you with. Email us at: [email protected]
Creative Audio Description: if you are a visually impaired dancer planning to attend a morning class, you may like to book our free Creative Audio Describer service to provide you with 1-1 support during the class. Please get in touch if you would like to request this support.
Care Pot: the Care Pot exists to offer cash support towards childcare, parking, travel, access or other extra costs that may surround coming to these classes. Take a read and please be in touch with how we could cover some of your extra costs so that you can come along and participate.
Rest: Our spaces are rest welcome. There are various benches, seats and corners in the studio or you are always welcome to leave the studio for a break.
Find out more here: www.gatherup.live
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REALISE YOU CAN’T MAKE IT?
We try our best to price our classes and workshops fairly and offer good value for money. To ensure the viability of our programme we do not offer refunds. However, you can put your ticket up for resale or transfer it to a friend using the Headfirst booking system. Your original ticket becomes void and a new, valid ticket will be emailed to the transfer recipient.
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GATHER UP is a dance development project supported using public funding by Arts Council England. The current programme is also made possible thanks to additional support from the Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement, Bristol Old Vic Ferment and Arnolfini.
Photo credit: Aude Arago
Image description: A green, black and white photo of a woman in motion, wearing a shirt with a zipper, facing diagonal with arms raised and bent, hands in contact holding metal pieces, eyes raised, against dark background.
Entry requirements: 18+
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