Responding to what is present in the moment, participants can draw out imaginative landscapes which are grounded in the details of the body. Through the simultaneous mapping of your interior landscapes in connection with the exterior space. This session will be informed by authentic movement practice.
Focusing on exploring what is present in your body, with a caring, self-supporting and inquisitive stance, you will explore ideas around allowing the dancing to come effortlessly through trusting your bodies’ imagination. Participants will find intrinsic musicality coming from dream-like states or alternative layering of being with your mind/body, working with and without music.
The class has an experimental approach and goes deep as well as being playful and has formally created a trusting group dynamic.
Jessica Lerner is a visual movement artist. Originally from London she has been living in Carmarthenshire, Wales since 2002, where she has a movement studio.
She has been making and showing work since 1989 within experimental dance venues and galleries. She has collaborated with film, dance, visual and sound artists. Her work is in live performance, installation and painting.
Jessica’s performances are playful, inventive and show vulnerability. She dances with objects and responds to location in an interplay creating a collage including somatic dance and live art. Through her improvisations, elements from family history, personal relationships and everyday life situations surface in a dreamscape of the abstract and concrete.
She is drawn to the wild spaces of the Black Mountain where she lives.
Jessica has produced over 20 solo works and collaborative performances. She has also curated time-based events and collective projects for artists crossing visual art and dance.
Independent Dance is resident at Siobhan Davies Studios. To find out more about accessibility and the amenities available within the building please see here.
If you have any questions about the accessibility of our programme and would like to discuss any specific access requirements, please feel free to reach out to us via email info@independentdance.co.uk or by phone on 0207 091 9650, to speak to a member of the Independent Dance team.
During class, all participants are welcome to take breaks, observe, exit and enter the space as they wish. Lounge areas are available on the first and ground floors of the building. Yoga mats, blocks, cushions and ear defenders are available for use. We also welcome you being in contact if you would like to discuss the option of bringing your access support worker. Please speak to a member of the ID team if you require any assistance.
Prices for classes are kept very low and are subsidised by ID in order to support artists to attend. To keep admin manageable for our small team, we don’t offer refunds if you cancel or can’t attend a class, and we can’t transfer your booking to a different class/event. We hope this is understandable.
If a class is cancelled or changed by ID however, we do offer refunds/transfers to everyone who has booked.