YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL)
Charlie Morrissey’s classes are about being and moving with, and the ways in which moving with another person can be a way to notice that movement is always relational and those relationships provide a constant stream of information about ourselves in action.
The classes play with ideas and experiences of proximity and touch, materiality and motion.
We will map our own structures in relation to space and other structures/people, and explore moving alongside, into, with and through.
This will be an opportunity to explore the weight and the lightness of moving in company with others and coming to the activity of improvising in and out of contact as something fresh – an activity through which questions are discovered and explored through action.
These classes are rigorous, highly physical and involve physical contact with the other participants in the class. They are open to all those who have a committed movement practice.
Ben Ash will lead Friday’s class:
“Class is open to practitioners from all backgrounds. Exploration will be undertaken as solo practice together, as well as within clearly defined relational frames such as pairs and trios, and scored group situations that arise, change and dissolve. Themes for practice may include specific references drawn from embryological movement motifs, philosophical koans, attention to the materiality of the body, and the use of objects as anchors or feedback transmitters.
I enjoy working with whole body, scale, space/time, detail, risk, weight, and pursuing satisfaction. There may be a palate of phrases and movement riddles as well as spontaneous forms and containers that surface across the week. We may use repetition.”
Disclaimer – ‘Please note that embryology content may be a sensitive subject dependent on lived experience. In mind of this care will be taken in the delivery of this material and holding of the space. However class is not presented as a process oriented therapeutic space’.
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.
Charlie Morrissey has been working with movement for over 30 years as a teacher, performer and director.
Charlie’s work is informed by working relationships with artists including Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Scott Smith, Becky Edmunds, Siobhan Davies, Andrea Buckley, Rosemary Butcher, K.J.Holmes, Kirstie Simson, Karen Nelson, Katye Coe and many others.
Together with Rob Hopper, Charlie organises and curates an artist-led dance programme at Wainsgate Chapel in Yorkshire, which includes artist residencies, workshops, performances and daily Open Practice sessions.
Ben Ash (He/Him) is a Dance artist and Craniosacral therapist, a teacher within dance and Craniosacral therapy contexts, co-director of Dog Kennel Hill Project. As an independent performer Ben has collaborated with Rosemary Butcher, Charles Linehan, Rosemary Lee, Richard Alston, Siobhan Davies, Charlie Morrissey and Charlotte Spencer.
Ben integrates somatic movement awareness in his clinical practice as a Craniosacral therapist. In these intersecting practices he invites collaboration through presence in the relational field, both within performance practice and as a therapist. Through a practice he terms Wayfaring Encounters, he is exploring how form, gesture, action and response support a ‘felt’ relational exchange, and how awareness of this process can become a resource for engaging creative practice and performance.