Monday – Wednesday, Gaby Agis:
Developed by Joan Skinner, Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is a pioneering approach to dance, movement and creative process that has evolved from the simple principle that when we are releasing physical tension, we can move with greater freedom, power and articulation. This week Gaby will be teaching Class 6, 7 and 8 (from the 15 Classes of the Introductory Pedagogy). It is useful, but not essential, to have some experience of the earlier classes.
In SRT classes, spontaneous movement evoked by guided poetic imagery, supported by music and sound, enables a creative and easily accessible exploration of technical movement principles such as multi-directional alignment, suppleness, suspension, economy and autonomy. As participants let go of habitual holding patterns, they are supported to cultivate an increasing sensitivity to their own physical and imaginative experience. The result can be a deeply embodied awareness of new possibilities in how they move – both inside the studio as dancers and creators, and in daily life.
Thursday + Friday Rachel Lopez de la Nieta:
Rachel will invite participants to enter a playful yet contemplative space where the materiality of the body, space and other will be used as starting points for dancing. Class activity includes; practicing essential movement gestures, sensory contemplations, spontaneous relational composition and ritual performance scores.
Rachel’s class is underpinned by Buddhist notions of perception formation and impermanence, she is interested in tapping into the powerful current of the unfolding experience as a way to spend time together. It will particularly suit people who have an interest in digging into their creative movement archive both individually and collectively, in ways that could be playful, profound, poetic and complicated or ridiculous.
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.
Gaby Agis (she/her) is a choreographer, teacher and dancer living in London, UK. She has been making performances for the past thirty-five years, both nationally and internationally, collaborating with artists from a host of fields: from architecture to opera to sculpture to film. She has created many site-specific works: for hospitals, train stations, museums, art galleries and theatres.
Gaby has taught the Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) throughout the UK, US and Europe. This technique has been intrinsic to her creative practice.
Rachel Lopez de la Nieta is a co-director of the collective performance company Dog Kennel Hill Project, alongside Ben Ash and Henrietta Hale. Their work spans performance, dance, choreography, embodiment, and lived philosophy, with commissions from organisations including Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery, Modern Art Oxford, Brighton Festival, and Dance Umbrella. Most recently, the company created Snakeskin in the Wild, an interdisciplinary arts/science performance installation commissioned by NEUROLIVE. Rachel’s practice is grounded in the study and ongoing practice of Eastern embodied philosophical systems and living anatomy, which underpin her research into materiality, perception, and embodied experience.
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.