World building - A Workshop with Akshay Sharma

Name: World building - A Workshop with Akshay Sharma
Start: 2024-10-05T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-05T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Bristol Old Vic

Schedule

Sat Oct 05 2024 at 11:30 am to 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Bristol Old Vic | Bristol, EN

GATHER UP, an artist-led programme for dancers, invites celebrated artist Akshay Sharma to share their dance and choreographic practice and their current research in a spirit of reciprocal enquiry.
This workshop is open to the curiosity of artists and practitioners aged 18yrs+ who work with contemporary dance, movement improvisation, choreography or other movement practices.
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World building
In this workshop you will be invited to a rigorous play of movement and text to create your own fictional world. The relationship of the performer to their own space will be explored to bring alive the role of fiction. I will introduce the idea of "Scale" to cultivate a greater range of movement and expression. The workshop is aimed at professional artists and they would be invited into a space of permission and ease to work solo and work with what's present "in the room". I will be sharing my movement practice and offer elements from my solo making.
About Akshay Sharma:
Akshay Sharma is an independent choreographer and performer born and brought up in India and based in London. He trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds and since has been working with choreographers and making his own work. He is interested in choreography as organisation, practice as returning to the relationship between the craft and self, the value of emotions as sources of information. He works with principles and values simplicity, clarity and honesty in movement. In the studio he appreciates focus, play and immersion.
He looks at choreography as organisation and explores it using Indian classical music, here creatively informing the dramaturgy of the work. He is touring his solo work "Can This Place Be A Temple?" and working on a new production.
His choreographic work has been supported by London Contemporary Dance School, Arts Council England, Dance Umbrella Akram Khan Company, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Yorkshire Dance, Kala Sangam, Dance City and Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi.
https://akshaydances.com
Instagram: @akshasha_
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Who is this workshop for?
Artists and practitioners (18yrs+) working with contemporary dance, improvisation, choreography or other movement practices.
What are the timings of the day?
The studio will be open from 11am. The workshop will begin at 11.30am with an hour break for lunch, small breaks in-between and will end at 5pm with 30mins until 5.30pm to connect, cool down, stretch and leave the venue.
Access:
If you are a dancer with a visual impairment and would like to come to this workshop and access free Creative Audio Description 1-1 support please get in touch to find out more and how to book:
[email protected]
We have a Care Pot available offering cash support towards childcare, parking, travel, access or other extra costs that may surround being able to attend this workshop. 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. https://www.gatherup.live/care-pot
If you need access support during the workshop or have a question contact us at: [email protected]
To read our sharing spaces commitment visit:
https://www.gatherup.live/working-together
https://www.gatherup.live/workshops
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Image Description 1:
a coloured photograph of a dancer of south asian heritage wearing a beige top and dark trousers standing. One arm is curved, his hand stretching out above his face while he looks at it, the other folds towards his stomach. There is orange lighting and smoke behind him.