This week’s Morning Class was originally led by Susan Kemspter, but due to illness, the rest of this week will now be led by 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.
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.
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.