Throughout the week, you will work with somatic practices that support you in tuning into and noticing your materiality, working with sensation and imagination to explore the internal landscape of the body. You will work with scores and improvisational tasks that support you being in relation to each other, expanding your awareness to the wider field and what can be a resource for your moving and dancing. There will be time to move alone and in groups, attending to what is present in the space, your interests for moving and dancing, and your decision-making whilst moving with others.
Laura’s desire to keep moving and dancing—even when life gets messy and challenging—forms part of her ongoing research into dance as a resource and as a way of participating in life whilst honouring what is sustainable.
There will be space for big dancing, small dancing, resting and witnessing—whether you dance often or have been away from dance for a while or just love to move, come as you are.
Laura Weston (she/her) is a dance artist, choreographer, and movement director from Leicester, based in London. Her practice moves between dance, theatre, and film.
She has performed in works by Thomas Hauert, Rashpal Singh Bansal, Crystal Pite, Athina Vahla, and Sarah Michelson, as a member of Transitions Dance Company (’06). She continued working with Sarah Michelson performing in DOGS (New York, Berlin) and Dover Beach (Cardiff, New York).
Her debut short film NO DRINKS ON THE DANCE FLOOR won Best Experimental Film at Manchester Film Festival (2023). That year she joined Candoco Dance Company and toured Last Shelter by Jeanine Durning, a work that continues to deeply influence and resource her practice today.
Alongside performing, Laura works as a movement director, choreographer, and teacher. She worked on bilingual productions of Twelfth Night and Romeo & Juliet in Bulgaria and Italy (2015–2017) choreographed ODE with ATOM Dance Theatre, an improvised performance (2022) and short film Mayflies (2025) as intimacy coordinator.
She also teaches movement and dance at a range of HE institutions and Yoga/Pilates at her local studio in Woolwich.
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.