For this Monday Night Improvisation class, you will focus on different ways of engaging with your eyes and vision. Through guided explorations and tasks, you will explore practical and imaginative elements of your experience, playing with what we observe and how we respond. This will include moments of: eyes closed, eyes open, focusing on different ways of using and thinking about seeing to generate movement.
We will start by working individually, so that you can get attuned with your own rhythms and impulses, and expand from there to connect with the space and each other. There may be moments of performing to each other.
You will be encouraged towards states of listening, focus and playfulness where your bodies and minds are in movement, and there is space for new meanings and perspectives to emerge.
Théïa Maldoom is a London-based dance artist whose work spans performance, movement direction, and production. Important threads in her thinking are; bodily awareness, queerness, surrealism and playfulness. She gravitates towards multidisciplinary projects and often involves improvisation.
Recently, Théïa has been working with a variety of musicians, performing as a clown with Chewy She on tour across the UK and movement directing videos with The Last Dinner Party, amongst others.
Théïa regularly performs movement and voice improvisations in art galleries, independent music venues and cabaret nights.
She is also the creative producer of Mind the Gap, an evening of improvised performances spanning dance, theatre, sound/music which has run over 11 nights and platformed over 100 artists.
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.