These sessions will focus on discovering pathways into dance and sustaining a dynamic state of movement through attention, sensation, and availability. Together, you will explore what it means to enter and remain in an active, responsive dancing body.
Expect physical, energetic sessions where you will sweat while investigating rhythm, repetition, listening, contact, touch, and voice. Your explorations will be guided through a somatic lens, drawing from embodied anatomy and body systems, infant movement development patterns, and witness–mover practices.
Throughout the sessions, you will move in different constellations: dancing alone, with partners, and as a larger group. These shifting dynamics invite awareness of self, others, and the shared space of the studio.
Participants will be encouraged to play with changing pace, finding ground and support, activating imagination, and discovering pleasure in movement. You will also experiment with mark-making and writing, expanding how we experience and express movement.
The workshop is open to anyone curious about deepening their relationship with movement, sensation, and collective dance practice.
This week of morning class forms part of the MA/MFA Creative Practice: Dance Professional programme, meaning that there are a reduced number of public places available. If this class is sold out, please join the waiting list to be notified if a place becomes available.
Of English-Chilean descent, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome (she/they) is a London-based artist, choreographer, dancer and researcher creating immersive performances and workshops. Through somatic practice and her process-driven approach, she explores the potentials of solo and collective embodied power and the temporary building of micro-communities. Collaboration is key, crafting ecologies of liveness, risk, care, and access. Her work shifts perspectives, rippling between human and more-than-human space-time. Approaching dance and voice through the deep poetics of the body and the contradictions of how to be in the world.
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.