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, and she is interested in tapping into the powerful current of the unfolding experience as a way to spend time together.
The class is open to people with any level of movement experience. People with and without disabilities are welcome. 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.
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.
Rachel Lopez de la Nieta (She/Her/They) is a creative practitioner with over 25 years of experience as a dance artist, choreographer/ movement director, teacher/facilitator as well as artistic explorer with performance collective Dog Kennel Hill Project (with Ben Ash, Henrietta Hale), their work is performance, dance, embodiment, choreography and lived philosophy.
In collaboration and alongside associate artists and partners, they develop investigative projects to specific contexts or communities. Recent activity includes a retrospective show you can probably turn this into something that ran for several months at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Brighton and Snakeskin in the Wild ,a new performance research commission by Neurolive performed and made at Siobhan Davies Studios. Following her MA in Creative Practice: Dance Professional at Independent Dance/SDS/Trinity Laban (2018), Rachel has been working with Slime, an inorganic substance that sits perfectly between solid and liquid, as a medium for contemplation, communication, communion and composition.