Jessica’s class will focus on exploring what is present in your body, with a caring, self-supporting and inquisitive stance. Ideas around allowing the dancing to come effortlessly, through trusting your bodies’ imagination, will also be explored. Participants will find intrinsic musicality coming from dream-like states or alternative layering of being with the mind/body.
Responding to what is present in the moment, you will draw out imaginative landscapes which are grounded in the details of the body. The class will explore mapping of our interior landscapes, in connection with the exterior space; and exploring relational fields with other movers, architecture and wider perceptions of environment.
This class is open to all movers and would also suit multi-disciplinary artists working or interested in movement. The class has an experimental approach and hopes to go deep as well as be playful.
Access
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 9665, to speak directly to a member of the Independent Dance team. Alternatively, you may phone the main reception at Siobhan Davies Studios on 0207 091 9650.
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 to be 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.
Cancellations and refunds
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.
Jessica Lerner (she/her) has three decades of experience as a visual movement artist and teacher. Originally from London where she led movement for performance art workshops through the 90’s, she has been living in Brynaman, SW Wales since 2002 where she now has a movement studio that she teaches and rehearses from. Her work is choreography through improvisation and somatic practices, performance art, painting and installations to perform in. She is developing Knitting Fog a performance project with Gaby Agis and Amy Voris on the Mynydd Du/ Black Mountain which will be performed May 2024.