Glasgow Contact Improvisation Beginners Workshop with Penny Chivas
Schedule
Sat Oct 05 2024 at 10:30 am to 06:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
GTAC (Glasgow Theatre and Arts Collective at Water Row) | Glasgow, SC
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REGISTRATIONS LINK: https://forms.gle/Ykfjt1NQpEX9HgML8THE WORKSHOP
A day long workshop open to movers of all levels with space and time to dance, reflect and ask questions of the form and ourselves as we navigate what it means to practice Contact Improvisation in 2024.
Beginning with a focus on the details of softening, pouring, expanding and yielding, we will play with the micro and macro movements of our dances. How many types of dances can we be aware of at once, and when are we choosing to follow one over the other? A class based on the fundamentals and from which to grow from into our more expansive ways of moving and sharing weight. Penny will draw upon some of the methodology she has used in inclusive settings to present ways of moving using props not only to feel, but also to see and describe the actions occurring between one or more dancers. We will come together at the beginning of the day to set structure and framework to our practises moving through specific tasks and exercises before entering a short held jam space at the end of the day. Penny is particularly interested to share practices which may well encourage participants to investigate the form in differing ways to differing people.
INFORMATION
Saturday 5th October 2024
10:30am - 6:30pm
1h lunch break
Location
Glasgow Theatre and Arts Collective (GTAC)
4th Floor, 7 Water Row, Govan, G51 3UW, Glasgow
Registration
early bird: £40 (available until August 15th)
standard: £50
Supported tickets: we have a discretionary funding pot available to offer a number of discounted or fully funded tickets to anyone who is experiencing financial hardship. Also, if you are a GTAC member with limited disposable income, we are more than happy to support you participation. For further details on supported tickets, please send an email to Riccardo at [email protected], no-one will be turned away.
Places are limited to 16 participants.
PENNY CHIVAS
Penny Chivas (she/her) is a Glasgow-based dance artist and maker originally from Ngunnawal Country, Australia. Alongside her dance work spanning performing, making, teaching and involvement in screendance work, Penny has a long-standing investment in Contact Improvisation. She has studied with Nancy Stark Smith multiple times who still remains as a deep source of inspiration for her teaching practices, and has led Underscores in both Glasgow and London. In 2013, she co-founded @TheGlasgowJam with Tom Pritchard, an organisation to support the development of CI in Glasgow including delivering 'New Jammers' in 2014 supported by Creative Scotland mentoring upcoming jam facilitators and teachers. With a passion to share this work more broadly, Penny has taught CI for inclusive companies such as EveryBody (Nuremberg), Danskompaniet Spinn (Sweden) and Indepen-dance (Glasgow), as well as for the Invisible Centre of Contemporary Dance (Iran), London Contact Improvisation, Beijing Contact Improvisation and dance training courses such as Riveria (Finland), and the PPY at Sydney Dance Company. Penny has performed the work of Karen Kaeja, Pam Johnson (both Canada) and Vanessa Grasse (Leeds) who all draw upon their CI practices to inform their choreographic practices.
Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland, Penny will spend time studying with Daniel Lepkoff in August 2024 in Prague.
https://penny-chivas.squarespace.com
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Where is it happening?
GTAC (Glasgow Theatre and Arts Collective at Water Row), Govan Butcher, Water Row, Glasgow, G51 3UW, United Kingdom,Glasgow, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
