A event held at The Station on Tuesday 17th February. The event starts at 11:00.
Nothing happens in dance without contact. Whether it is contact between a foot or limb and the floor or between dancers as we balance or push off into flight, contact is essential. Even in the air mid leap, dancers control the shapes they form with the strength and direction of the force applied at joints, contact points between one part of the body and another. And of course there's the most important type of conract of all, the action at a distance that connects dancers with each other and connects us to our audiences, and makes dancing more than just a workout or a clever stunt, so that it moves your soul.
Everything about the type of contact matters - whether it is patchy or complete, intermittent or constant, whether that contact is maintained along a stream of connrctions to allow flow.
In this workshop we will draw all kinds of analogies as we play around with contact in dance, thinking by moving and throwing some gorgeous shapes based in contemporary dance to stirring music from all kinds of genres.
Enjoy!
11-1pm Kids and families
This will be led by Anna Davis, aimed at children attending either on their own or with a friend, parent or guardian. Curious grown ups are also welcome to attend with or without a child!
Expect a fun and full on contemporary dance workshop that will blow your mind with ideas, all couched in language and context accessible to children aged 7 up.
2-4:30pm big kids/teens
This will be led by Owen Ridley Demonick aimed at people aged 13-18. Younger children from age 10 up who have dance experience and are up for a challenge may also be better suited to this workshop.
Again expect to finish with a glut of endorphins from great contemporary dance and great ideas!
About Owen Ridley-Demonick
Born in London, Owen Ridley-DeMonick trained at the Rambert School of Ballet
and Contemporary dance and went on work with companies and directors
including Danish Dance Theatre, Nigel Charnock, Wayne McGregor,
Tanztheatre Wuppertal Pina Bausch, PunchDrunk, Trajal Harrell, Alexandra
Bachzetsis, Impermanence Dance theatre amongst others.
Owen is currently a guest artist with Cullberg Dance Company, Stockholm.
Photo credit: Tom Kirkpatrick
About Anna Davis
Born in London, Anna is a performer, choreographer and teacher in Cecchetti ballet and dance, as well as founding director of South West Dance Theatre. She also has a PhD in physics, regularly writes for science magazines and the science pages of broadsheets and often mixes ideas from dance and science together. She has led several workshops for families and children, including our summer dance intensives, dance and drawing workshop with Sachin Babbar, quantum physics and aperiodic patterns dance workshops, as well as, of course, our annual Christmas Nutcracker and Snowman charity workshops.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Everything about the type of contact matters - whether it is patchy or complete, intermittent or constant, whether that contact is maintained along a stream of connrctions to allow flow.
In this workshop we will draw all kinds of analogies as we play around with contact in dance, thinking by moving and throwing some gorgeous shapes based in contemporary dance to stirring music from all kinds of genres.
Enjoy!
11-1pm Kids and families
This will be led by Anna Davis, aimed at children attending either on their own or with a friend, parent or guardian. Curious grown ups are also welcome to attend with or without a child!
Expect a fun and full on contemporary dance workshop that will blow your mind with ideas, all couched in language and context accessible to children aged 7 up.
2-4:30pm big kids/teens
This will be led by Owen Ridley Demonick aimed at people aged 13-18. Younger children from age 10 up who have dance experience and are up for a challenge may also be better suited to this workshop.
Again expect to finish with a glut of endorphins from great contemporary dance and great ideas!
About Owen Ridley-Demonick
Born in London, Owen Ridley-DeMonick trained at the Rambert School of Ballet
and Contemporary dance and went on work with companies and directors
including Danish Dance Theatre, Nigel Charnock, Wayne McGregor,
Tanztheatre Wuppertal Pina Bausch, PunchDrunk, Trajal Harrell, Alexandra
Bachzetsis, Impermanence Dance theatre amongst others.
Owen is currently a guest artist with Cullberg Dance Company, Stockholm.
Photo credit: Tom Kirkpatrick
About Anna Davis
Born in London, Anna is a performer, choreographer and teacher in Cecchetti ballet and dance, as well as founding director of South West Dance Theatre. She also has a PhD in physics, regularly writes for science magazines and the science pages of broadsheets and often mixes ideas from dance and science together. She has led several workshops for families and children, including our summer dance intensives, dance and drawing workshop with Sachin Babbar, quantum physics and aperiodic patterns dance workshops, as well as, of course, our annual Christmas Nutcracker and Snowman charity workshops.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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