GATHER UP hosts a day long workshop four times a year, inviting celebrated artists from across the UK to share their dance and choreographic practice and current research interests in a spirit of reciprocal enquiry.

These workshops are open to the curiosity of people aged 18+ who work with contemporary dance, movement improvisation, choreography or other movement practices.

Feeling, fascia and form(s):

This workshop invites movers with an interest in exploring the shape-shifting tensegral world of fascia. We will be feeling in to fascia as our magical internal body fabric of support, with images, self-touch, optional partner-touch, props like squishy balls/sticks/bands and guided embodiment opening in to movement, making and reflective time - writing, drawing, day-dreaming...

There will be opportunities to move in proposed patterns and shapes - different locomotor patterns and rhythms give different information and help us slip outside our habits, or reframe them in useful ways. Emphasis is on movement as nourishing and enjoyable, personally interesting and physically satisfying.
There will also be opportunities to track and move with the internal sensing languages of physiological regulation (yawning, belly gurgles, swallows and wiggles) and the languages of being a body in space (weight sensing, tensioning and orienting responses).

Artists who work with and through movement, or are interested in body as process, are welcome - professional/dance training optional - the onus will be on you to engage safely with physical and somatic information in your own way, in a group context.
Please bring notebooks, drawing materials if that is your reflective channel of choice, and other supports you need to be comfortable in both stillness and movement.
Parts of the workshop will be led by audio-suggestion, parts by visual demonstration. Where there is demonstration or predominantly visual information, audio/tactile cueing is also possible.

www.jenniferlynncrawford.co.uk
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Time:
Studio is open from 11am, workshop time is 11.30-5pm, with time to stretch and meet 5-5.30pm.

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 workshop, 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 our programme of activities. 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.

www.gatherup.live

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Image Credit and Description:

Kieran Dawes ‘flying’
Image of Jennifer-Lynn, a white woman, with brown hair tied back, in a studio with a wooden floor, with the background blurred. She is in a sort of ‘arabesque’ shape in a pink t-shirt and greenish track suit bottoms and bare feet. The photo is at an angle so that her hand is very focused and the rest of her body progressively unfocused.

David Lindsay ‘jumping’
Image of several dancers from behind, in a studio, 3 white women and one white man, all in different stages of a jump, with one foot in front and the other behind. One of the women on the left side, with ginger hair, has turned her face to see Jennifer-Lynn in the middle. She has both feet off the floor, wearing a pink tshirt and blue adidas track suit bottoms and bare feet and her
right arm is extended upwards and her right leg back with the sole of her right foot visible.

Entry requirements: 18+ — Read more — Read less